When your eyes are tired, let your ears take over for a while

We're all news addicts. That's why we are here, right? Newsvine is where we gather to satisfy our needs, to 'get our fix', reading interesting seeded articles, or original content, on every possible subject, and later on, getting into a heated debate, seeking confirmation or just venting our opinion or reading other Viners' opinions.

As at this moment I am suffering from a balance disorder, reading isn't always an option for me, as it's hard to finish an article when all letters are like floating around, making it hard to make sense of them.

These days I've come to value my ears a lot. My ears allow me to listen to news at times when my eyes need a rest. Enter audio files.

Now of course you don't have to suffer from anything in particular in order to appreciate audio files. Some people are more aurally oriented, others more visually. Sometimes an audio file of about 5 minutes can communicate a lot more information than one could possibly read in the same time span. When listening to an interview with someone, intonation, pauses etc. can be very revealing, something a written transcript of that interview perhaps wouldn't show.

And for those of you that would qualify as 'super-addict', you could always read an article while listening to an audio file, even on two entirely different subjects if you please :-)

Anyway, let me introduce two new tags: listen-to-news and audio-file. To be used when seeding a newsworthy article with news in audio format. Or not of course, it's up to you.