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October 30, 2004
Podcast Review: The Eric Rice Radio Show
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4 and a half stars
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Format: radio show, sometimes spontaneous 'casts
Content: music and talk
Rating: 
What I'm going to do: subscribe
Typical Length: varies widely, from 8 - 50 minutes that I've seen
Eric Rice throws down some really high quality podcasting!
Snarky he is, but that's not a bad thing, Eric brings a lot of humor into his commentary on technology, culture, and human nature. He's comfortable on the air and since the speech potions of his show are really about everything and anything, it would be hard to claim that he's going afield. That said, he has a plan for his shows, and typically sticks pretty close to the plan.
Production values are high at The Eric Rice Radio Show; on 'casts that are recorded like a radio show (as opposed to the spontaneous ones) he's using a truly well-designed intro. His transitions into and out of his music tracks are fairly seamless (although he does occasionally have the kinds of flubs that you'd expect from a "live" show). Eric and his guests are easy to hear and understand. He's also got the relative levels between music and voice down pretty well; I don't usually have to adjust the volume on my Lyra at all.
Eric's also involved with slackstreet entertainment, KSSX Radio, and AudioBlog.com. Busy guy.
I'm going to say it again (and probably will everywhere I see it), but it would be great if Eric would give us the length of the music tracks he's using so that listeners (well, ok, I ...) could skip ahead to the end if we want to. Time-shift power to the listener!
One last note; someone should define "snarky" for the Wiktionary. Maybe I'll do it sometime....
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Posted by cori at October 30, 2004 07:20 AM