Comments on: Whither podcasting

By: Billy Dennis

Billy Dennis — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:55:11 +0000

Keep your day job, Floyd.

By: Floyd

Floyd — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:28:58 +0000

“Well out of the millions and millions of blogs that exist, how many of them have any interest to anyone other than the blogger’s immediate friends and family, if that.”

I’m still looking…

Ha! I kid, I kid. Just a comedy moment. Makes me giggle.

By: Billy Dennis

Billy Dennis — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:12:39 +0000

Vaspers — I just left the Odeo Studio site. Me likee. Me likee even more of my headset rig had a properly working microphone. I’ll have to invest in a replacement if I’m gonna do any podcasting at all.

By: V- a%S(p#E*rsT=`hE..]gra_Te[

V- a%S(p#E*rsT=`hE..]gra_Te[ — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:40:57 +0000

I contradict myself brilliantly in my miserable little post on podcasting that good Peoria Pundit esteems enough to link to, poor misguided chap.

I end my little harangue of bad podcast practices, saying I gravitate toward podcasting more than video, which until lately, I was championing like a deeply disturbed marketing guru.

I have done short sci fi stories (”Hair From Hell”, “Age Reversal Ray”, etc.) and my noisey CompuMusik songs, plus some random ignorant blogology rantings, over at Evan William’s post-Blogger project Odeo.

Forget ROI, most everything’s free nowadays. I use mostly open source and free web services, like free Odeo podcast studio and it even converts your podcast to mp3 for emailing or otherwise hosting or distributing.

I contradict myself, as usual, because I’m operating on several planes of metaphysics and web analysis simultaneously.

By: Jeff Trigg

Jeff Trigg — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:57:47 +0000

I’m a one-percenter. I download (subscribe to) several every day. And I usually listen to two a day on the way to work and on the way home.

Actually, my favorite is a radio show that is also put out as a podcast. Penn Jillette from Penn & Teller has an hour long radio show which translates to a 45 minute podcast which is perfect time filler on the bus and El. On the way home I’m currently rotating between a few real podcasts in hopes of finding another regular. I would love to have an Illinois political podcast in the mix, but I’m weird that way.

To me, it seems podcasts have more potential filling smaller niches that current talk radio doesn’t fulfill. That limits the market and profit potential so it really can only be a labor of love. Still, I think a weekly 1 hour podcast on Peoria (& area) politics would have some potential. Treat it as a radio show and invite guests and have a podcast team of two or more. Once your download numbers start coming in, I would think several Peoria area companies would want to sponsor the show or buy ads.

I say go for it Billy. Get a few Peoria political bloggers together once a week and have at it. Your topics can come from your blog posts that week or the local news, so that’s easy enough. I’d be game if I were still there.