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November 19, 2004
Your opinions wanted...
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Since Fridays are becoming the New, New Podcast Review self-reflection day, I'm going to post a few questions about the site to get them out there and see if you all have any opinions.
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Additional header items?
Would you all like to see any additional header info (by that I mean the entries up there with the rating, format, and content)?
Possibilities:- encoding
- frequency
- (your suggestions go here)
- Is one post per day (on average) enough content?
- Would links to some other sites be helpful? I hadn't initially thought about this site as a place where folks would start to learn about podcasting, and there are plenty of other places to find that information. Would a little more of that info on The New, New Podcast Review be helpful? If so, what?
- Would it be helpful to have category specific RSS feeds? How about a comments feed?
- a reader suggested that short previews (like 30 second clips) of the podcast would be helpful. Do other readers agree? I don't know that I can host that, but it's a possibility - I'm actually more concerned with the effort involved. I know that the podcast bunker does this, but I wouldn't do it the same way - the ones I've listened to over there are the first 30 seconds or so of the 'cast; with that you often get little more than the intro, which isn't always helpful towards making a decision about a podcast. I'd want to excerpt a representative (but totally subjective) segment. Alternatively, podcasters who requested a review could excerpt one themselves - heck, they could even host the clip. Thoughts?
Stuff I'm asking you to think about
If you have comments about any of these things, contact me by e-mail or leave a comment here (come on, neezee, I know you've got something to say).
One last thing I wanted to mention is to encourage listeners and podcasters to comment on the reviews, especially with your opinions about the podcasts in question. I think the rest of the readers will get a lot more from the site if more views than mine are represented. I won't kill comments because someone disagrees with me - about the only reasons I'll delete comments are spam, duplications, or inappropriateness (I want the site to remain family-safe by my standards).
Thanks for your support!
kinrowan
Tagged: podcast podcasting review
Posted by cori at November 19, 2004 03:00 PM