Obituary Weblog Launches
Podcasting Service
by Jade Walker
The Blog of Death, a popular Weblog of daily
obituaries, recently debuted its own podcasting service.
The Blog of Death, a popular
Weblog of daily obituaries, recently debuted its own
podcasting service.
Audio Obit (http://www.blogofdeath.com/audlink/)
features condensed, spoken word versions of the obituaries
that appear on The Blog of Death. Each broadcast is less
than 5 minutes long, and available through an RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/audioobit).
Both The Blog of Death and Audio Obit are written and
produced by Jade Walker, a Seattle-based author who has
always had a passion for obituaries. As the overnight
editor/producer of The New York Times on the Web, she
published the site's Obits section and spent a year working
on the Portraits of Grief, a collection of obits for the
victims of the Sept. 11th terror attacks. When she edited
Inscriptions Magazine, Walker compiled the hugely popular
R.I.P. section of writer obits.
"Each night as I write my obituaries, I strive to highlight
the lives people led and the amazing things they
accomplished," Walker said. "Death comes to us all, but each
obit inspires me to live with passion and purpose."
Since its debut in 2003, The Blog of Death has published
1,300+ obituaries and 10,000+ tributes. The site has also
been featured in The Sacramento Bee, USA Today, the
Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, MSNBC, the Houston
Chronicle, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Poynter Online,
Quietpoly Magazine, Yahoo! Picks and CBSMarketwatch.com.
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