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Rant and a record — the format of these podcasts

I’m thinking that the format of podcasts can take many forms. Listen to this one to learn about my views on format, why I like the 10-minute “rant and a record” idea, plus the obligatory tweaking of the broadcast industry... 8.3 mBytes Download the podcast, or... Listen to it as a stream (starts playing immediately, doesn't stay on your machine when it's done)

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Podcasting, especially community podcasting, is all about letting people tell their own stories. In order to do that, you gotta go to them. This will undoubtedly be a recurring theme. In this one, listen to a few general thoughts about remotes, plus a little bit about digital gear that makes producing them a lot easier. Download the podcast, or... Listen to it as a stream (starts playing immediately, doesn't stay on your machine when it's done)

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Radio is a shared space, like a city park, and there are rules governing your behavior there. Podcasting space is also shared, but it's an interactive place that you choose to enter -- so the rules are different. Download the podcast, or... Listen to it as a stream (starts playing immediately, doesn't stay on your machine when it's done)

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Community podcasting is about real people telling their own stories, in their own voices. A little about the history of why radio people talk the way they do, and why you don't need to. Download the podcast, or... Listen to it as a stream (starts playing immediately, doesn't stay on your machine when it's done)

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Audio is a great way to communicate. Very rich, all kinds of subtle things happen that don't in the written word, and are Too Hard in video. Here are some thoughts on how podcasting is a great way to reach a community, even inside your own company. Very subversive too -- kinda like email, it "flows around obstructions." Heck, there's even Moody Scott blues tune to put you in the mood. Who could ask for more? 9.5 mBytes Download the podcast, or... Listen to it as a stream ...

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Podcasting solves a big problem that plagues community radio stations -- the eternal balancing act between providing access to the airwaves for all while at the same time providing an audience. A little controversial on the music selection for this one -- Bruce Hornsby. 9.3 mBytes Download the podcast, or... Listen to it as a stream (starts playing immediately, doesn't stay on your machine when it's done)

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In the words of Elmer Fudd, be vewwy vewwy careful... Advertising leads to choices you may wish you hadn't made later on. It's one of the reasons that "Public" broadcasting is in the fix it's in today. And the nice thing is, community podcasters don't need advertising the way community radio stations did. Download the podcast, or... Listen to it as a stream (starts playing immediately, doesn't stay on your machine when it's done)

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Internal politics is an inevitable part of any community radio station. There are all sorts of reasons why -- and podcasting neatly avoids most of them. Of course, sometimes politics is a creative force that drives the content to new places, but for the most part it's just something that gets in the way. Now we're free! Download the podcast, or... Listen to it as a stream (starts playing immediately, doesn't stay on your machine when it's done)

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Adam Curry's got a new "Strategy 'cast" out, and it triggered an idea. Why not build podcasting sites so that the comments to podcasts are podcasts? Buncha interesting software widgets would have to get built, and there's some etiquette to figure out. But some neat things could happen. Podcasting could cross-pollinate and cross-promote a lot better, and it could make for more interesting shows. Download the podcast, or... Listen to it as a stream (starts playing immedia ...

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Yup. I've decided to wrap up Sex and Podcasting and move on. I should have done this about a month ago, but hey, who'sperfect? As I said back then, I've run out of things to say about community podcasting. I've decided to do a new podcast rather than dilute the (I think pretty cool) message of Sex and Podcasting. I hope you'll swing over to GeezerCast and check out the new stuff over there.This show tries to hit the high spots of the Sex and Podcasting manifesto -- "how-to podcasting", ...

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I love living in the country and would quite like to start a business here so that I could earn my living in the country as well. But the infrastructure that an entrepreneur needs (a local business community, smart people, local capital) has drained away. It’s my opinion that it’s too late to [...]

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Once upon a time I was appointed by the mayor of St Paul to head a commission to take a look at the Y2k problem. I met a lot of interesting people, and one of the most interesting groups were folks characterized as “Doomers” — those who thought that Y2k would bring on “the [...]

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A guy named Joseph Medawar got visited by the FBI last week for allegedly bilking people out of $5.5 million for a television show supposedly endorsed by President Bush. Hucksters like this are always of interest to me as a few of them have walked off with some of *my* money over the years. [...]

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This is the first show since I’ve given myself permission to drift a little ways away from the “community podcasting” topic. Hunting season is starting here in Western Wisconsin and I thought I’d share a few observations. Heck, there’s even a community podcasting tie-in (I’ll see if I can pull that off even [...]

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This is a show aimed at people who are just trying to get a feel for what Sex and Podcasting is all about. This show features four or five summaries ofthe big themes in the series, plus representative snippets of the music that I play.This show is about 7 minutes long and features [...]

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This an old argument, left over from the community radio days. Which is a better community medium, audio or video? I'm on the side of audio. I think it's easier to produce, easier to teach to other people, more involving for the listener and a much better story-telling medium. And “people [...]

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This is the “call to action” podcast for community-radio programmers, producers, staff and boardmembers. I'm lobbying that you folks could be the epicenter of community podcasting if you choose to do so — and I hope you will. This podcast explores a little about why I think that, plus a little about what [...]

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A week full of news that's interesting if you're a community podcaster. CPB slaps NPR, NPR slaps back, Cox and Clear Channel are dropping rock-format stations 'cause they're not seeing the rate of return they want, and iTunes looks like they're going to support podcasts. Community podcasters take note — the titans are [...]

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Dave Winer did a couple of great podcasts this week — the first a very personal revelation of his side of the business difficulties between him and Adam Curry and the second, which inspired this podcast, in which he does a lot of reflecting and shares a bunch of ideas that I found compelling. [...]

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Community radio folks (and NPR types as well) are telling me podcasting is just a flash in the pan — because people don't own their iPods for very long before they stop using them and turn back to other ways of listening. That may be true (it is for me) but that shouldn't give [...]

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