Countdown to podcasting

[urbpan]

Hi gang! I missed a few days because I went to my dad's retirement party and then spent a couple days hanging out with my brother and my father*. I have dozens of photos to post and my regular stuff to catch up on. Do I start new projects in order to procrastinate the old ones? A question for therapy, which I will start when I need to procrastinate going to the dentist or something.

So I've written a few pages of script for the Species of Least Concern Podcast and I figure I'll ad lib for a few minutes about stuff people have had me identify lately. I'd also like to begin taking questions and starting discussions on a page totally devoted to the podcast. First I thought facebook made the most sense, then I took a look at it and remembered that timeline makes it so nobody can find anything ever, and I'd just get the same questions over and over again and no one would be able to look at it for five minutes without getting bored and frustrated anyway. I'm a little scared of Tumblr, and livejournal is my safe space where I can be myself more or less, as long as I use an lj cut. I will use my twitter feed because it's convenient (if evanescent) but I need a more stable home base for the print content of my podcast. You guys have got all the bright ideas, lay 'em on me!

*My dad's speech was great, but the best part might have been the vigorous frisbee game where both the 42 year old son and the 77 year old father fell down at different times. Ow my knee!

**There's some urgency involved, because I don't feel like I can start uploading podcasts until I have a place I can send people with questions and comments.

Comments

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

Wordpress blog. You'll need a little cash for a domain name and server space, but running a wordpress blog is almost idiot-proof. I run one to handle our entomology annual meeting, and I have approximately nil web design or system admin skills.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Alexis agrees.

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

I'm an idiot and I use wordpress so...

Because I am an idiot I hope you can give me instructions on how to tap into this "pod cast" thing. I think it means you use some sort of "pod" Ipod or Ipad but that it is audio and so will it be on a station on the internet? (I will have to use my son's computer as I have no sound on mine.) will it be in real time or a file on the site that I can listen to whenever?

I am glad you are doing this. Exciting! Bon chance!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

It will be an audio file that you can listen to whenever and wherever (if you have an audio listening device). It will be available for download from iTunes, and probably from the aforementioned print content page as well, if I can figure out how to upload them.

Podcasts have largely replaced all other forms of entertainment media in my life, as I refuse to pay for television, and radio has less and less appeal as I continue my inevitable transformation into a codger who shakes his fist at neighborhood kids, cats, and birds. Movies require me to leave my house and pay 12 dollars to watch commercials at concert volume in a dark room full of teenagers on their cellphones.

I listen to (in case you want to get into it before I make my content available) The Savage Lovecast (sex advice from hilarious and outspoken Seattle columnist Dan Savage), The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world (the weeks events eviscerated by British comics John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman), WTF podcast (an interview show hosted by recovering bitter stand-up comic Marc Maron, mostly interviews other comedians), The Judge John Hodgman podcast (minor disputes are settled by eponymous minor television celebrity and expert on everything), and The Thrilling Adventure Hour ("a staged comedy production in the style of an old-time radio show").

There are podcasts about everything, but I tend to listen to only funny ones because---oh I don't know, I'm shallow and I just want to be entertained, and regular broadcast entertainment just makes me depressed.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

i have server space and could host it.

[zipotle.livejournal.com]

another vote for WP. That's what we use, and Ken even has a blog for his gun podcast.

[uneko.livejournal.com]

There's no rule that says you have to trick with one or the other--simply your own ability to keep up with it. Tumblr can be quite entertaining and useful for being personal with people, however, you CANNOT reblog asks, though that is work-around-able.

That said, wordpress is a pretty good idea also. though it is harder to 'follow' then a website on tumblr, or similar.

that said, I dunno what people who are 'into' pod casts prefer in this respect. I'm jsut talking mostly as a tumblr user :)