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April 12, 2005
Podcast Review: Shakespeare Souffle
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Format: rambling talk
Content: talk about Bradley family culture
Rating: 
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Typical Length: 15 - 30 minutes
Shakespeare Souffle is a "blogcast" of the audio antics of a family of 4 from Chicago. Subject matter is as widely varied as the activities and events of Bradley family life, ranging from a soundscape of a typical day to a recording of a trip to the field museum to 2 or 4 of the family members (and maybe some firends, too) sitting around a microphone and talking.
This family has the good fortune to get along well and to lead fairly busy and interesting lives, as families go. They're homeschoolers and have what appears to be a wide social circle. Daughter Fiona and son Liam get along as well as can be expected, as do the parents Ken and Kim. They have a cat. Fiona is a girl-scout, and Kim participates as well.
If you found the preceding paragraph somewhat interesting then Shakespeare Souffle is for you. If you found it less than compelling (as I did) then probably not, because that's largely the extent of the content on Shakespeare Souffle; details of the Bradley family life. My intention here is not to belittle the effort the Bradley's are putting in to their podcast; quite the opposite. They enjoy the podcasting, and it is the first podcast that I've heard that involves an entire family. They have a great time doing it and it's a great new way for a family to spend some additional time with each other, which is great! However, for some listeners the subject matter will be less than riveting.
Early in the podcast series Shakespeare Souffle suffered from some problems with audio quality. They've made great gains in that area more recently and their "at home" podcasts are intelligible, although with 4 or more people around a microphone it's inevitably hard to hear some portions and other portions are too loud. Their mobile 'casts still have some quality difficulties, but that's perhaps in the very nature of mobile podcasting. Track-naming is adequate but not ideal, comprised of the podcast channel name and podcast number, but no date; the file names contain the date and a shortened name, which is fairly accessible. Tracks are encoded at a variety of bit-rates, from 64kbps (probably a good rate) down to 24 kbps (too low in my opinion), and may be the cause of some of the quality problems they've had, especially seeing that the later podcasts have been the one with the higher bit-rates. The show is typically kid- and work-friendly, but on occasion hasn't been - and they've let the listeners know when it's not, which is good form. The Bradleys podcast somewhat irregularly, but average about every 2 weeks.
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Posted by cori at 03:57 PM
February 10, 2005
Podcast Review: HOT Radio
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Format: talk
Content: trading tips and market information
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Typical Length: 15 - 20 minutes
The HOT Radio podcast is aptly named; not only is it about High Octane Trading, but your host, Steve Wirrick, is definitely high octane as well.
From what I can discern, Steve's podcast is an extension of Steve's existing stock market training business. From what I can hear in the podcast, Steve is either fairly successful at what he does, a very good actor, or optimistic to the point of insanity. His high-energy podcast leaves you in no doubt that there's money to be made with Steve's High Octane approach, and Steve markets his podcast as "The Quickest and Easiest Way For You to Consistently Learn My Money-Making Secrets." The only question that I have is whether or not Steve is intending to train people who already know something about trading or whether he is targeting his podcast at the complete trading neophyte. Because I have to say, I'm one of those neophytes and I didn't understand more than 1 word in 5 of what Steve was talking about. I'm sure once you know the jargon Steve's rapid commentary is meaningful, but certainly not from the outset.
All of that said, I should also point potential liseners to Steve's disclaimer, where he states:
Neither Steve Wirrick, nor anyone else at Planet Cash, Inc., are registered as a securities broker-dealer or an investment adviser either with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or with any state securities regulatory authority.
I am neither an economist nor a trader, but much of what I could glean from what Steve had to say seemed to contravene what I understand is commonly held to be sound investment strategy - invest for the long haul. Steve's strategy seems to be about short-term trades. To be fair to Steve I don't think he's pitching a long-term strategy here, but based on that fact this may not be the strategy for you. Your results, as they say, may vary.
Steve is very comfortable behind the mic, and his delivery is fast and smooth. A habit of his that I found to be somewhat annoying was his repetitive use of the NATO phonetic code to represent the ticker symbols of the companies whose stock he's discussing. While certainly helpful for clarity's sake, a little less repetition of those codes would be preferable to my listening pleasure. The meta-data for the HOT Radio Podcast is good, with a full title and date in both the file and track names and consistent tagging elsehwere. Steve's audio balance is good for the most part, although at the beginning and end of his vocal content he often seems to be fighting against the volume of his intro / outro music, so perhaps fading that music down a little more before he starts to talk would make things a little easier both for him and his listeners. In a strange twist of podcasting chance, Steve uses the same intro / outro music as another energetic podcaster, another paragon of promotion, Matthew Bischoff of Esc From The World!. In fact their delivery is so similar that if they didn't live on opposite sides of the country I'd be tempted to say they might be related.
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Posted by cori at 10:56 PM
February 02, 2005
Podcast Review: TheCommute
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Format: conversation
Content: whatever comes up - often light tech talk, traffic, daily goings on
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What I'm going to do: maybe listen occasionally
Typical Length: 15 - 25 minutes (as long as the drive to or from work)
One of the two participants in this podcast (who are known only as voice one and voice two) thinks "it is entirely boring toss," whatever that is. In some ways, I agree. If Samuel Beckett wrote scripts for podcasts, this would be one of them. Nothing ever happens in this podcast (not that anything has to happen in a podcast), and little of any interest in it's own right is discussed. This is the blog-about-my-cat version of podcasting, where the greatest interest is likely to be from those who know the participants (disclosure: I have blogged about my cat). You know, if there were sparks that flew occasionally, or even some philosophical disagreement on a subject that I'm interested in - an interchange of differing opinions, whether it be confrontational or good-natured - that might give some compelling interest to the podcast.
But that's not what this podcast is about. And in point of fact, I was much more interested in Voice 1 and Voice 2's daily commute than I was in Chris Rockwell's dinner, and this is, if anything, less work than what Chris puts into his shows - a fine example of the fact that a person can podcast about anything (or nothing). No, this is a podcast about the mundanity of everyday life, and in fact revels in the basic boringness of driving to work and the ways these two gentlemen find to make it not so boring (for them, and by extension for us). And to be honest, I listened to a dozen or more of these an made sure I heard every bit of every one and while I wasn't enthralled, it was a briefly interesting slice of life in another country. Not something I'd want to listen to every day, and while there is somewhat of a through-line to the conversation as the participants refer to things they talked about several days ago or that occurred off-mic, none of the stuff they're discussing is important enough for me to feel the need to go back and find the earlier references, which is refreshing.
These fellows actually do a good job in keeping their conversations real. There's no attempt to make the podcast interesting for listeners - what you hear is what you get. And at least one of the participants is enjoying it enough to keep doing it five days a week. A classic podcast about nothing.
File-naming leaves a little to be desired here; while there's a date tag in the file-name, the file- or track-name "TC20050201H.mp3" isn't particularly revealing - the rest of the meta-data (artist, album - tags like that) is OK (rant). No music is played (although maybe they listen to the radio occasionally), so tack lengths are irrelevant. I would say that for the type of content (all talk) the 96 kbps encoding rate is pretty high, making for largish files. Aside from that there are no production aspects to speak of, and the participants are noticably un-self-conscious in their delivery. Since the motivating force behind The Commute seems to be enjoying what they're doing, I firmly encourage him to keep it up.
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Posted by cori at 06:11 AM
January 19, 2005
Podcast Review: Goin' Deep with the Paralyzer and Mr. Clean
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Goin' Deep with the Paralyzer and Mr. Clean
Format: on air get-together
Content: crew of guys talking - girls, booze, current events, girls, booze
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What I'm going to do: not subscribe
Typical Length: 50 - 80 minutes
I was never "one of the guys" when I was growing up - always a little too geeky, I suppose, being in band and heavily into RPGs. My idea of sports was cross country, and I didn't drink during high school until a graduation party (some peach schnapps concoction - ugh). After listening to Goin' Deep, I've determined that I didn't really miss all that much.
The content on Goin' Deep centers mostly around women and liquor. Thrown in for good measure are the occasional tidbit of current events or sports, and the guys tell quite a few personal experience stories (mostly revolving around women and liquor). One actually enlightening exchange in a recent podcast was the information about whiffleball - I had no idea that whiffleball was so difficult and certainly no idea that it was a popular sport with the over-12 crowd.
The Paralyzer's audio for the podcasts has its ups and downs. Frankly I think they mostly do a pretty good job with making everyone audible; there are usually 4-6 guys in the room at the same time and the listeners can hear most of what's going on. On a few occasions the audio has been poor with many of the vocals cutting in and out and very difficult to discern, but this is the exception rather than the rule. The delivery is pretty smooth - most of the guys are competent story tellers and fairly comfortable behind the mic (maybe that's the Seagram's talking). Production quality is pretty good, with the musical interludes and intro / outro being fairly well integrated into the show. Track- and file-naming is adequate, with both including an identifiable podcast channel name and date.
The show is not work- or child-safe (disclaimer prominently displayed on the site). In fact, it might not even be girlfriend-safe.
While I didn't care much for the content personally I'm sure many guys out there will enjoy it, and the crew is definitely having a good time, and no one can fault them for that.
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Posted by cori at 11:28 PM
January 12, 2005
Podcast Review: The Daily Download
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Format: man talking
Content: music, talk, daily toilette
Rating:
What I'm going to do: listen to Bandtrax
Typical Length: 5 - 10 minutes
I don't know Chris Rockwell (aside from having reviewed his other podcast, Bandtrax), so I can't rightly say that I agree with his wife, Lorrie, when she says "This is the stupidest thing you've ever done," at the close of every Daily Download, but I can say this: this is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard.
The more credit to Chris, I think he might agree. In fact, I think that's the point. It seems that Chris has an overactive sense of irony, and it amuses him to produce the stupidest content that he can think of with what might be the most ground-shaking media technology since wireless radio. He's doing a pretty good job.
Chris's studio is his bathroom, and with a small stretch of the imagination I think you can determine what the primary content of his podcast is. Chris always discusses what he's had for dinner the last day or so and we "get" to hear the results of that, as well. To Chris's credit, there's other content in addition. Most Saturdays are new music Saturdays, when Chris play some new music for his listeners, and on Sundays there's usually a sermon. In addition, Chris accepts "experiments" from his audience - although they might be more accurately described as challenges (things like "How do women with really long fingernails use the toilet" or "Try some of this [reference to painful excretion] hot sauce"). By far the best show that I heard was the Thu, 30 Dec 2004 edition with Chris's wife Lorrie. The woman must have the patience of Job, although she gives Chris some pretty good jabs; I know my wife would laugh me out of the house if she knew I read on my laptop in the john, let alone if I was recording on it. Hint to you Lorrie; I have found that when experiencing difficulty in the toilet after eating hotsauce the results are often in direct proporation to the quantity of hot sauce consumed, not the heat of the hot sauce itself.
All in all, Chris does a pretty good job with the content he's limited himself to and has a pretty amusing podcast. If you can get past the given content (or think that it's funny in its own right) you might find something you like here. For myself, however, while I get the point behind what Chris is trying to do, I'd be much more interested in seeing Chris (or someone else) podcast from a variety of silly / stupid / difficult situations rather than the same one all the time - I think that would point out the ease with which anyone can do a podcast more clearly than The Daily Download does.
Audio is decent, with good levels and balance between vocal and musical bits. He only occasionally plays a full track of music on the show (once a week or so), but doesn't give us the track length (rant). File- and track-naming is okay, though I'd like to see the date in the track title. Chris encodes at 64 kbps, which is a good bit-rate for this podcast, and surprizingly, his laptop's internal mic does a pretty good job, and he's got a mini-disk recorder for remote set-ups that also gets pretty good quality.
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Posted by cori at 06:00 AM
December 28, 2004
Podcast Review: podcat ... daily best of podcasting
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podcat ... daily best of podcasting
Format: compilation
Content: clips of other podcasts
Rating:
What I'm going to do: listen occasionally
Typical Length: 35 - 60 minutes
Podcat's providing a service to the podcast community with podcast ... daily best of podcasting. Since podcasting is a viral sort of community, podcat's interlinking of podcasts provides an expression of appreciation for the podcasters doing the work and some good additional attention to good podcasts. It's also a great resource for newcomers to the podcasting phenomenon, who can rely on any of the podcasts they'll hear in a particular episode of the daily best of podcasting to be at the least enjoyable and a good listen. More seasoned podience members may find this podcast to be somewhat less useful than newcomers but might still enjoy it as a resource to discover and "test drive" podcasts they've never heard. For myself, however, the second round of clips (podcat usually has a quick run-down of clips from the podcasts he's covering followed by the full 5 - 10 minute clips of each one in turn) is too much - by that time I'd rather be listening to the podcasts themselves.
There's no commentary about the content of the podcasts included, I believe by design - podcat's letting the podcast clips speak for themselves. There is also no mention of what inclusion in podcat's podcast (that's kind of fun to say) represents; does it mean that a particular episode was strong, or is it a commentary about the podcast channel as a whole? If it's about the specific episode, are the clips presented the parts that pushed it into the best of... , or are the representative of the podcast as a whole and not necessarily the best parts. These are questions I had while listening, but I probably ask too many qestions.
Podcat has had some issues in the past with his audio, in particular his musical bed overpowered both his vocals and in some cases the podcast clips he was playing. He's largely overcome these challenges in the most recent postings, and hopefully he'll keep the balance between underscoring and transition music and the vocals and clips easy to listen to. Podcat's delivery leaves a little something to be desired for me. Podcat speaks fairly slowly, and while this is important when communicating something that a listener might want to write down for later reference, but for the rest of podcat's commentary the slow speech patterns do little but increase the length of the podcast. Podcat does have some nice production touches in the 'cast; I especially like the use of the cat sound effect to point out a jump from one clipped segment to another - makes it much easier to follow the clips. Other production and audio aspects are primarily well-handled, including fades between music and vocals and the interleaving of the clips from any one podcast.
The daily best of podcasting is a bit of a misnomer for the title of this podcast (I know, a bad case of the pot calling the kettle black); podcat's publishing more like once a week. Podcast meta-data is satisfactory.
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Posted by cori at 12:45 AM
November 18, 2004
Podcast Review: Michael Lehman's Podcasting from SoftwareLand
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Michael Lehman's Podcasting from SoftwareLand
Format: commentary
Content: primarily software development discussion
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What I'm going to do: subscribe
Typical Length: less than 10 minutes
Michael Lehman's been around the block a few times in the software world, so one might reasonably view him as a resident of Softwareland, and he's got some strong opinions that come from his 15+ year residency. The Podcasts from Softwareland are typically short segments with Michael discussing some aspect of software development. They're often delivered in a fairly accessible format (i.e. you don't always need to be a developer to understand what Michael's talking about).
Michael's content is typically evangelical. He's got well-formed ideas about the role of the developer and of software in the future and he wants to bring you around to his point of view. He's very eloquent on the subject and his podcasts are well-written. These are short, bite-sized chunks of information that are easy to listen to. Michael is currently working with Microsoft, so much of what he's been discussing lately has been related to that, but I suspect and hope that he'll talk about a wider range of subjects as time goes on. Michael also occasionally posts podcasts about more personal information.
Michael's delivery is well-scripted, if a little dry, with few hesitations. His vocals are fairly clear but very occasionally muddy - though not a serious barrier to understanding. Michael doesn't play much in the way of music tracks in his podcasts, but uses an intro / outro and musical bed that I believe he wrote himself, Michael being a musician as well as an evangelist. Some of the audio early on was a bit muffled, but that's improved in tha last few. The fades in and out of the vocals are well-handled, without overpowering Michael's vocals.
Mike's text blog has detailed notes (basically a version of the script) with links from the podcast.
Michael's filenaming and mp3 tagging are satisfactory, although I might like to see a file name that is more desciptive than using primarily his name.
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Posted by cori at 06:39 AM
November 05, 2004
Podcast Review: Northwest Noise
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Format: Radio show
Content: Tim, Portland, University of Oregon, some music
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What I'm going to do: listen occasionally
Typical Length: 10 - 30 minutes
Tim Germer of Northwest Noise presents us with a podcast that is mostly about...well, er...Tim. He discusses his views on politics and life, his girlfriend, his new job, &ct. If you like Tim, then you'll undoubtedly like his podcast. If you don't care much about Tim one way or another you'll probably not care too much about his 'cast. If you don't like Tim...well, you get the idea. Tim also discusses a lot of subjects primarily of interest to Portland residents, especially University of Oregon alums and students.
Tim's delivery is fine - few hesitations or dead air. He does the 'cast without editing it, and does a pretty good job with that - there are few segments glaringly in need of editing. He's enthusiastic, although one might ascribe that the the quantity of coffee he apparently drinks. His vocal balance is generally good - I didn't have to adjust my headphone volume often while listening. One thing I didn't care for much is that Tim often will play a segment of a song, but rarely lets the ong play through. Maybe that's intentional, but I found it frustrating.
I really like Tim's intro/outro - it's well produced and interesting to listen to (if a little long, about 45 seconds in and 30 out). He also typically has a pretty good musical bed, although sometimes the vocals in the background are a little distracting. His fades are also competent for the most part, although there are occasional abrupt transitions. Tim encodes at 64kbps, which is a pretty good choice for the content.
If you're from the Northwest, especially Portland, or are a U of O alum, or just like Tim's style, then this podcast would be a good choice.
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Posted by cori at 05:21 AM
November 03, 2004
Podcast Review: Tech Shorts
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Format: radio show
Content: talk with some music
Rating:
What I'm going to do: listen on and off
Typical Length: 35 - 40 minutes
I believe Richard Wifall of Tech Shorts qualifies as a full-on geek (I hope that's not an insult). I mean, this fellow has a computer in his car that syncs with his home network over wi-fi. I can't think of much that's geekier than that.
Richard's geekiness works to our benefit for the most part; he talks about a wide variety of technology subjects, from gaming to media technology to gadget commentary, in relative detail. One draw-back that I see is that his commentary is a little behind the news; he's talking about things that have been in the tech media for several days. It's difficult to keep up with all of the news, but given the very wide array of tech podcasts available and the frequency of publishing, timeliness is going to be very important - listeners often aren't going to want to listen to something in podcast A that they heard about 2 days ago in podcast B.
He's getting a lot of his music from Magnatune, which is a good choice for legal music. Some of the music is a little distorted at the top end, which is a little surprizing; the source sounds OK on my device and Richard is encoding at 128mbps, which should be satisfactory.
Richard's vocal sound is a little empty and tinny, and so is some of the music (this both on my audio device and on my better quality headphones on my laptop), but his vocal balance is good for the most part and his technical handling of fades and the like is competent. He's chosen to do with out a musical bed for the show, but for this type of show that's probably just fine.
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Posted by cori at 07:52 AM
November 01, 2004
Podcast Review: Bibb and Yaz Take Over the World
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Bibb and Yaz Take Over the World
Format: talk show with some music
Content: commentary on american culture
Rating:
What I'm going to do: unsubscribe
Typical Length: 30 - 60 minutes
Seems like Gary Bibb and Yaz Larino are working towards being podcasting's answer to Howard Stern. For fans of Stern's style this is probably a good thing, but I've never been a particular fan of Howard Stern.
Bibb and Yaz are positively scatological, and their humor is very broad. Lots of bodily function jokes. Definitely anti-PC. Again, this is sure to appeal to many listeners.
Technically, Bibb and Yaz do a good job. They rely heavily on effect carts or tracks but they're well-placed, as far as that goes, so there's not a lot of waiting for the cart to catch up to the voclas like you might hear on community radio shows using those kinds of effects. The balance of vocal to music / effect volume is good, and the fades into and out of music tracks are well executed. They are both easy to hear and understand, as well. One thing that doesn;t work as well is their intro, which pops on very abruptly.
[Editor's note: Forgot to mention that Bibb and Yaz are definitely not child- or work-safe (but you probably figured that out already). They're also a little over-encoded: they were encoding at about 128Mbps, but have dropped down to about 96 on their last 'cast]
Like Curtis from the sportspod, these guys lay it all out there and have a good time doing it, which is critical to a good podcast. All in all, if you like Howard Stern, I think you might like Bibb and Yaz and you should tune in. I won't be.
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Posted by cori at 06:29 PM
October 28, 2004
Podcast Review: sportspod
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sportspod - sports talk on demand
Format: Radio show
Content: sports talk and commentary
Rating:
What I'm going to do: ignore it
Typical Length: approx 10 - 20 minutes
Curtis over at sportspod certainly loves sports. You can hear it in his voice and his enthusiam.
Me, I'm not a sports fan. In fact, I'm probably closer to a sports-hater. But since this is the forum for fair and balanced podcast reviews, I'm going to give it my best shot. I'll start by giving Curtis 1 star for content - assuming that since I know next to nothing about most sports I'm not qualified to judge Curtis's content.
That said, I think Curtis puts on a decent show. As I mentioned, he's enthusiastic to a fault. He also seems to have a lot of information to draw on for his commentary. And he's definitely got his heart in the right place when it comes to podcasting - he's giving it his all and holding nothing back. He's put himself right out there for all of us to listen to, with no reservations, which is arguably the most important thing in a successful podcast. While his humor is not to my taste, the sports fans I know will probably enjoy it.
Curtis's biggest drawbacks are his audio and production quality. His edits are sometimes very choppy and sometimes it seems like he's forgotten to turn his mic on until he's part of the way into a word (that could be latency on his machine as well). He's come up with a pretty funny intro/outro track, but it plays a little too long. One of the 'casts a listened to had several cut-outs and some popping. The volume of the clips he plays are sometimes not great, forcing the listener to adjust volume a few times, but in his defence, Curtis is probably not working with the greatest source for these clips (sound like some are recorded via mic from his TV or radio). If he's listening to his 'casts after they're done, and trying to work out these problems, then I'm sure these aspects of his 'cast will improve.
Curtis's podcast is not work- or child-safe.
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Posted by cori at 06:03 PM
October 27, 2004
Podcast Review: The Hitching Hours
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Format: Radio show
Content: tracks from unsigned bands
Rating: 
What I'm going to do: tune in again
Typical Length: 30 minutes
The first phrase that comes to mind when trying to describe The Hitching Hours is MLP (mindless link propogation). I think I could recite the couple of urls Hitch wants folks to visit in my sleep at this point, which is exactly what he wants. You see, Hitch wants to play only music from unsigned bands that have registered on his unsigned band site, Urban Decay, and unless he gets a lot of bands to sign up he'll have a hard time keeping his podcast going. At this point he seems to have about 50 bands signed up, so perhaps he'll be able to back off on the url quoting a little bit.
Hitch really seems to love music and had a lot to day about the band he played on his second podcast. I didn't care too much for that band personally; musically there were fine, but I'm not much for screaming metal; I think plenty of others will love it. The bands who have signed up at Urban Decay are of all sorts, so I think Hitch'll be able to cater to many different tastes.
The sound quality for the music is good, it all comes across clearly; however, Hitch's voice is too low for the level of the music he's playing, requiring the listener to adjust the volume before and after each music track. This seems to be a pretty common problem with music related podcasts, so I'm wondering if the levels between voice and music sound differently when being recorded (normal skull resonance aside). Hitch also does a nice job of handling fades around his vocals, but his intro and outro are each 1:30 or 2:00 long, which seems too long to me. He's also got about a 4-7 second silence at the beginning of his 'casts that he could trim and he could stand to trim his verbals down a bit - give us a little more music and a little less talk.
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Posted by cori at 11:25 AM
October 20, 2004
Podcast First Take: Do You Compute?
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Format: music/talk
Content: per Dan, alternative music and talk
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What I'm going to do: come back again
The first post of Dan Nordquist's Do You Compute was well executed. His voice volume was adequate and the transitions between voice and music were smooth. Good mix of music and talk; most of his speech was talking about podcasting and his techonlogy and experiences, which should be well received by other new content creators. He also had some interesting things to say about the breadth of music choices for his future broadcasts. I think his choice of an under-score was also pretty strong, and I liked the music he was playing.
Some of the post sounded edited, which is to be expected, and it sounded well done and smooth. I'd much rather have well-edited posts than raw ones any day.
He also introduced me to a new band (for me), Interpol, which is always a good thing.
After taking a look at Dan's blog, I'm interested to see how often he posts and where he takes it.
This 'cast ran about 15 and a half minutes - no idea if that's the length Dan is shooting for or not. You can subscribe to Do You Compute on mp3
Update: Dan seems to have left podcasting behind - from the posts on his website as near as I can tell he hasn't podcasted since 2004-11-11.
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Posted by cori at 04:00 PM