Talking about blogging, blogging about talking

So, Pixeldiva and me chatted away for several minutes about blogging on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour this morning. Interesting experience. Verdict? First, the time slot was minimal (a few minutes), the audience non-blogger by and large, so we could only really talk basics, and the question and answer format meant no real debate, or discussion between the two guests. If some people - including the programme's makers - start to blog - then mission is pretty much accomplished. Presenter Jenni Murray seems to be considering it....

We agreed afterwards that there were many things we could have prattled on about, probably for hours. What else would I have said?

Well, maybe minority interest stuff: for example, the difference between bloggers and blog readers, contrasting patterns of behaviour between the sexes (briefly referenced but no chance to expand); other kinds of blog, future developments in terms of blogging behaviours, and - in the light of the suggestion made that blogs can be a source of outrageous comment - a brief reference to Jayson Blair etc. and the NYT phenomenon: i.e. if blogging may not be the new journalism, it is certainly not necessarily a poor relation in terms of accuracy. Would any of this have been of interest to the listenership? Not sure.

It would also have been interesting to hear more of Pixeldiva's experiences: away from the mike, we chatted about issues such as wierdos and stalkers, reprehensible behaviour by bloggers and much more. There just wasn't time to cover much of this really interesting stuff in the context of the programme.

Is this why I prefer blogs? ;-)

A point raised by a Woman's Hour producer: she'd discovered there was an event about blogging this week - Spiked Online's, perchance? - but then was puzzled by the fact that all the speakers on the panel are men...Yes, well, half the sky, half the blogs (and this one too), but not half the blogging panels, it seems.

Simon Waldman confesses that he "can never read back anything I've written in print". I feel the same, and even more so about audio and video. Here's the link for the BBC Radio Player.