Podcasting

Es ist Sommer und es ist heiß. Zumindest so heiß, dass mein Studio mit Fenstern in Richtung Osten schon morgens hübsch warm wird. Das einzige was hier hilft ist Durchzug, egal ob durch offene Fenster oder mittels Ventilator. (Und keine Sorge, Durchzug ist nicht böse). Das offene Fenster ist hier auf dem Land normalerweise bei der Podcast-Aufnahme kein Problem. Es sei denn, die Bauern müssen wegen der derzeitigen Dürre ihr Getreide Noternten. Dann ist der Traktorverkehr und die damit verbundene Beschallung durchaus deutlich. Die Alternative ist also: Fenster zu und Ventilator an. Die Pustequirle sind aber meist nicht leise und das beißt sich wieder mit dem Podcasten. Da kam mir die Idee, statt des auf dem Boden in einiger Entfernung stehenden lauten Püsters einen 140mm kleinen leisen, rege...

When A-list YouTuber Casey Neistat announces he wants to do a podcast, you know podcasting was the right thing to get into 12 years ago.  https://youtu.be/NGjcPQ05Fns?t=7m44s In his video update Casey Neistat says he needs to "figure it out first" ... no, wait, he says "we need this time to figure things out how to do it, best practises, ..." which of course means: someone from his team needs to figure it out, not Casey himself. He briefly touches on things like they need needs a studio, on sound quality and on figuring out a distribution method.   Sorry, but to a podcaster who has done this for 12 years, this sounds strange.  Of course, nowadays, if you use the term "podcast", it might mean any of 500 different things. It could be a cultural phenomenon or a distribution channel for radio ...

Creating a new podcast and getting it online can be super easy if you use a service like libsyn.com - there are also many wordpress-based solutions (Podlove Podcast Publisher for example) but having done this podcasting business for 12 years, I like to take a bit more control while reducing the post-produciton time per episode to as little as possible. I've seen many podcasts come and go and I believe one of the reasons a lot of people don't stick with it is that they burn themselves out on the post production. All the making-it-sound-pretty and the shownotes and the promotion and the constant search to optimize the tech. My approach is a little more like putting a puzzle together into a well-oiled machine that I feed a fresh recording and let it do the rest for me. And as I j...

Anchor.fm just released version 2.0 of their app. They claim it's a new form of radio and I have to admit, it's quite nice and it lets you build your own virtual radio station. It lets you record snippets and publish them to your own station. You can add music too. And you can make a call-in to another station which the owner of that station can then put on their own station. I was planning to use Anchor as a side-channel to my main podcast (TFTTF) - to release a daily photo tip for my audience and answer questions that they submit as call-ins to my Anchor station. In addition I wanted to re-use my Anchor content on TFTTF. Here's why that might fail: a) Anchor lets me export my own content, but the export quality is horrible. In fact it sounds so bad, it doesn't even com...