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November 21, 2004
Podcast Review: Emayhem Podcast
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4 stars
, I do not subscribe
, Podcast Review
Format: radio show
Content: talk, local events, some music
Rating: 
What I'm going to do: tune in occasionally
Typical Length: 20 - 40 minutes
Dave Mansueto and his friends over at EMayhem Productions put together a great podcast. They are incredibly enthusiastic about what they're doing and have a great time. The interaction between the participants is a lot of fun to listen to.
Some of the content in EMayhem is very location specific to Pittsburgh, which matches with the guiding principles of their website: to encourage and support Pittsburgh artists. If you're located in or around Pittsburgh, or are visiting Pittsburgh, the events calendar is worth listening to - this is a great use of podcasting. They also offer some commentary about broader artistic material - movies, music, etc. Also interesting to note is that this is the first podcast I heard that has a sponsor (although I've heard a few others since).
The audio in the EMayhem podcasts is good - even though they sometimes have several speakers sharing a mic they are all easy to hear. They make good use of intro and outro music and musical underscores, and use a local music track to close out each show. Their delivery is enjoyable and intimate, and they podcast quite regularly (usually at least 5 days a week). The podcast is encoded at 112kbs (never seen that level before), so the files sizes aren't huge, but they're not tiny either.
One segment of their podcast is The Stalls, a serial cliff-hanger skit (they call it PodDrama) produced roughly once every 10 days (or so). While the humor is not right up my alley, the segments are tremendously well-produced, you can easily follow not just the narrative, but also the wide variety of characters and locales. A pretty ambitious production, and quite successful.
EMayhem's meta-data is good, and since they typically only play a complete musical track to close the show, track length isn't as important as it otherwise might be.
Subscribe to mp3s.
Update [2005-01-25]: Seems Emayhem have both new web-site and RSS feed urls. These have been updated. And they're still podcasting strong.
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Posted by cori at November 21, 2004 07:59 AM