This is a fantastic idea - and I'd like to offer some help along with some
thoughts...
Like you, I've been watching the growing influence of podcasts with great
interest. As you mentioned, there's much potential for the medium - while at
the same time - there's plenty of poorly produced (read: unlistenable) stuff
out there.
Instead of inviting everyone to simply record descriptions of their studio
rigs, would it make more sense for the *community* to create an interesting
format as well as the content? Imagine a "community* built and maintined
padcast focused on Linux audio!
Maybe a wiki segment, a gear review segment, edited segments directly
contributed by Linux users as well as other listeners, software development
reviews, email question of the week, interviews with developers, whatever.
If we hope to gain listener interest in an effort to broaden the community,
we will need to put together an organized podcast that is both entertaining
and informative.
I'm a audio professional (www.gregwilder.com) in an unusual situation - I have
direct access to actors (read: voice talent & personality) in
Philadelphia/NYC who might very well be interested in contributing their time
in return for exposure. My studio (www.steeprockmedia.com) runs 90%
GNU/Linux and is capable of better than broadcast quality. (Much of my work
produced using open-source tools has been heard on TV, radio, blah, blah...)
If we could get a community effort together to create the format and content,
I'd be willing to consider donating my studio time and experience in order to
produce the show.
Thoughts?
Greg Wilder
On Thursday 27 January 2005 07:59 am, Mark Constable wrote:
> omjn wrote:
> > Can you point me in the direction of any of these aggregators or sites?
>
> A definition and background...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
> http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,65237,00.html
> http://www.bloggercon.org/2004/09/27
> http://www.feedforall.com/podcasting-tutorial.htm
>
> various aggregators...
>
> http://www.ipodder.org/
> http://audio.weblogs.com/
> http://ipodderx.com/
> http://www.podcastingnews.com/
> http://www.digitalpodcast.com/
>
> even commercially orientated...
>
> http://www.podcastexpo.com/
> http://www.podcastgear.com/
> http://www.createyourpodcast.com/ (yuk!)
>
> a recent (like month ago) spin-off podcast "invention"...
>
> http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoundseeingToursPodcast
>
> and the home of the "prince of podcasts" himself...
>
> http://www.curry.com
>
> > I'm currently getting feeds from MP3Blogs and the Internet Archive open
> > source audio directory, but I think this is not quite what you have in
> > mind. I'm thinking it might be kind of fun, so I'll see what I can come
> > up with in the next couple of days. Especially as I set up the rest of
> > my studio, it might be interesting to podcast the process as a narrative.
>
> Please please do it, this is exactly the kind of thing
> that would be fascinating... at least for me, can't
> speak for anyone else around here.
>
> > Call it the "adventures in linux audio" channel or something similarly
> > daggy...
>
> Perhaps a "sound seeing tour" of the birth (or rebirth)
> of your studio... YES, t'would be excellent.
>
> > Anyway, if you give me some directions as to where I can 'plug in' to
> > the scene, so to speak, it might sway me one way or the other.
>
> Any of the mp3's on this page are pretty good examples
> of the genre... be warned that some podcasts are "not
> safe for work".
>
> http://live.curry.com/
>
> --markc
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