Just a few thoughts on what I think needs to be in place to create a great podcast. Nothing earth shattering here but there are a couple of key points that I believe the majority of podcast producers forget. What Makes A Great Podcast?Content:• Subject Clarity. • Subject Authority. • Subject Awareness. Creativity: • Ideas.• Treatments.• Engagement. • Production technical standards.Connectivity: • Use the net and applications do the promotional work for you. • Availability.• SEO / Meta Data “let people find you.” Let me know what you think.
I’m a huge fan of “This American Life” on National Public Radio in the USA. I listen to its weekly podcast. It really is the finest radio programme I’ve every heard. It’s brilliant story telling, well produced audio that engages its audience. It must take ages to produce some of the content.
This last weekend I was spellbound listening to an episode called “My Big Break” here are the shows notes:
“Sometimes, getting your big break isn't all it's cracked up to be. A comedy duo lands the gig that can make them famous. A third-grader gets his big chance to please his mother and push his drunken father out of the picture. And other stories. “
The story that grabbed my ears was from “Act One. Take My Break, Please.”
Again here is the show notes from This American Life’s website
“Charlie Brill and Mitzi McCall were a comedy duo back in the mid-1960s, playing clubs around Los Angeles, when their agent called to tell them he'd landed them the gig of a lifetime: They were going to be on The Ed Sullivan Show. The only problem was that their performance was a total fiasco, for a bunch of reasons, including one they never saw coming. David Segal of The New York Times reports. (18 minutes)”
I’m going to repeat myself but it is just one of the best examples of story telling I’ve every heard, mixed with great archive audio and two brilliant subjects who know how to perform and deliver the show biz. Brilliant job, well done by whoever produced it.
I’d love to spend a month with the team at “This American Life” ….
Please give it a try you’ll find it at thisamericanlife.org
I’ve been trying to loose some weight recently and after 3 weeks of much talking about it and not much action I now weigh 16 stone which is crap because when I started I was 15'10". So enough is enough and yesterday I joined a gym, I’ve got my induction at noon today.
What I like about this gym is that its not part of a big corporate organisation like JJB or Bannatynes. Its based in a local schools community centre It has all the same equipment (apart from a pool) of the bigger gyms and that’s all I want. The fees are great ……no minimum 12 month contract, where you have to give at least 30 days notice if you wanted to quit like I had to at Bannatynes. You pay £20 a month for an adult membership and that is it. None of this on / off peak cobblers, when it’s open its open and that’s it.
So this is me now….. in all my sixteen stone glory
And this is my target weight for the start of July.
Aren’t IMac’s brilliant?
