So I was thinking about people we could possibly interview/talk to about the podcasting process and realised that this reality television podcast I listen to called
Rob Has a Podcast (I don't care what you say, Survivor is quality television) has a pretty apt history for what we're doing. It was started a few years back by Rob Cesternino, a former contestant on Survivor who had experience working in IT, with little to no resources. It was recorded in his apartment with just a few laptops etc, but has since grown (due to its large fanbase), and now receives funding from advertising and affiliation type things with Amazon.com, and from contributions from fans.
I shot Rob an email to see if he'd be willing to answer some questions on starting a podcast from scratch and, since he works in IT, if he could perhaps shed some light on the technical side of RSS feeds and the like.
Anyway, check out the show's website linked above, as its also a pretty good example of a support network for the podcast itself (and is full of images for you, Julia), and their
facebook page.
He's also got a cartoon version of himself as their logo, which I thought was pretty cool.
I thought this was a good example of a more grass roots podcast that could potentially come in handy when thinking about our own.
I just had a potentially groundbreaking idea- lend me your ears. What if our podcast WAS about the journey of podcasting.
ReplyDeleteWe start off with an initial 2 minute podcast- whatever the content. This is to simply investigate "how to podcast". Can simple, everyday individuals engage with this medium? This podcast will teach us about the delivery of podcasts, and I suppose we can measure its success and then plan our major podcast.
Then we do the main one on handshakes, under the seem podcast list, and then once again evaluate the success of that. But since our content is seemingly a lot stronger, it will give us more criteria for evaluating the success of our podcast, and understanding the medium.
And then a third involving vidcast, a fourth with animation.
Our podcast series overall in this sense does become an investigation as Fiona mentioned on the medium of podcasting. We wrap up the series with a podcast discussing our 'journey of podcasting', where we discuss the medium of podcasts and what we took away from it.