If you follow Paul Boag (of the excellent boagworld podcast) on Twitter, you’re well aware that he frequently posts thoughts & insights in short audio clips through AudioBoo.  In one such recent post, he’s sparked a very interesting conversation: on the web, how important is it that everything is 100% accessible?  With his AudioBoo posts, specifically, he wonders how long it will be until someone complains about the format not being as widely accessible as possible.

While the use of speech-to-text technologies is certainly one direction this conversation can go, I’m fascinated by the implementation of crowdsourcing to handle this problem.  To the point: let listeners & fans transcribe the audio content, as they desire, fueled simply by the joy of spreading the ideas and making the content more widely available.  A positive side-effect of this approach is the inevitable additions to the greater conversation; the ideas, thoughts, and insights added to the topic by those doing the trascriptions.

Accordingly, I offer my transcription of Mr. Boag’s latest AudioBoo: Continue reading »