I’v been thinking about podcasting, and I’m starting to think that the Bladencast and BladenForce in general (the site content outside of the comics) could benefit from taking some cues from podcasters. I mean as it is were bassically just in “additional content” or, “hey we recorded some stuff” mode.
But we definetly try to, and have ambitious to, run Bladencast like a radio show. In that way it’s not a podcast as much as an as of yet to grow up and join the live interwebs internet radio show.
However I think that between our dazzling wits and all the podsafe music and such there is out there we could be throwing out awesome nonlive podcasts even as replacements for newsposts in some cases.
I also think that we do need to practice better radio format in the Bladencast even while were still stuck in the static realm. I interupt Jazon a lot, he announces the format as we try to structure things and when we go without format we end up talking about how we don’t have stuff to talk about it, which is kind of ridiculous because if you just sat us down normally we’d never run out of things to say.
The focus for Jazon has always been to get the better equipment so we could run BladenCast 1. with better quality 2. live and 3. taking callers and guests via the internet.
However I think that before that practicing our internet radio skills and loading up on some podsafe content would be useful. Hell, most internet radio shows are illegal as hell (see the wonderful Radio Kingdom-of-Loathing which is like pirate bay for the ears when it comes to music), so I think getting material for intros and themes wouldnt be out of the question.
And then beyond the Bladencast since we do the bladencast it also shouldnt be difficult for us to start putting up real podcasts, not internet radio shows, as well. Podisodes of rants that would otherwise be types out newsposts like this; updates; and other funny shit.
I listen to a LOT of podcasts, mostly short fiction, and I’m also an internet-radio addict. So I’m pretty attuned to the fact that theyre different things that are structured differently because of their different goals. I think that the pod-blogging casts and the newscasts of serial podcasts could teach us a lot in terms of a brief shot of recorded discussion, while we need to learn from the amateur but oh so skilled internet radio DJ’s some basic material that even the song-slingers learn, and that the internet talk show host should definetly learn.
Anyways, those are just my musings here Mt.Doom at ass-crack-of-dawn-in-the-morning.
