Comments on: Simple steps to a 10 minute podcast

By: gakyi

gakyi — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:53:34 +0000

i am still surprised to see podcasting music is not much prevalent yet.

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 17:02:15 +0000

Tim, I agree with you on shorter is better–I shoot for 15 mins max. On the umms, my point really is relax and just do it. After a while, once you’ve been bitten by the podcast bug, then the umms, ers, and ahs will disappear on their own, or, as you aptly pointed out, edited out.

By: Tim Bednar

Tim Bednar — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 15:19:18 +0000

Ummm, no ummm–the umms matter. I got lots of feedback when I first started that it got to be painful to listen to–it’s just like spelling on a blog. Combat umms and pauses and ahhs this way,

1. Preperation–know what you’re going to say and write show notes and print it out on paper–this also makes it easier to write the description for the show.

2. I talk in short bytes and then put sweepers (little pieces of music) at the end. I breaks things up. I also edit out a lot of the umms and ahhs.

And it’s much harder to be a podcast sensation than a blogging sensation. Why? No searching. You’re podcast is not indexed like a blog entry that makes more old skol positioning, placements, endorsements, etc more important. Then their is just the fact that it takes a lot more time to do a podcast well, than write a good blog entry.

PS-I’ve learned shorter = better.

http://www.e-church.com/podcast.asp

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 14:29:20 +0000

Yes and no. I think there is a certain rough quality that’s okay. All podcasters don’t have to some professionally produced, IMHO. For example my first podcasts were recorded while I was walking into town and talking into a MP3 palyer/voice recorded. Rough, lots of background, but the effect was actually great cool.

By: duncan

duncan — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 11:39:08 +0000

The content part is the easy part, its the record and sound quality which makes it difficult, even with audacity.