So, how can this be a blog that contributes to the project? Emma had a brilliant idea. We have been meaning to take fieldnotes for our interviews. How about we use this space to collect fieldnotes for each of the interviews. We write a title–any title but one that includes the interview number. We make notes about the setting and other elements of the interview. This blog then becomes an integral part of the project archive; it is also a history 2.0 record because all of our participant/interviewers will be required to submit field notes this way (or should it be the facilitator?). Let’s see how that works.
As the blog is public and our interviews will be part of a public archive, it should not really matter what we say. Anything appropriate for the archive is appropriate for this space. If we wanted, we could even include a little snippet of the interview. The question: is wordpress the way to go or would typepad be better. I know typepad supports podcasting. This must support sound files as well.
