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The Broadcast your Podcast Development Blog is where I keep notes and thoughts and ideas behind this effort.
Due to prior experiences with spammers, I am not currently offering a 'comments' section, but you can always email me if you have something to say. If it's good point, I'll post it :)
Coding, coding, coding ...
Date: 12/02/2006
Just checking in - I've been stitching together some tools on the back-end. Nothing fancy, just a few tricks to help me run the station and concentrate on the content and lineup instead of the technology. So I've been tied-up for a few days.
This means I've had to take a short break from doing promotion work, so I seriously appreciate the efforts some of you are making on your own to help get the word out. I really appreciate this, and you know who you are, so thanks again.
Back to coding for me ...
I (heart) the Internet
Date: 11/29/2006
Broadcast Your Podcast is starting to pick up. And this is why I love the internet - the idea is now zinging across a dozen sites and as many blogs, bringing some amazing podcasts into the fold.
I have all of your submissions - please keep them coming, even if I can't drop all of you a line personally when your submission comes in. But they are getting here, and you podcasts are being noted.
And by all means, help me spread the word if you can. Tell your friends, tell your fellow podcasters, tell your radio-obsessed, CMJ/NME-readin', create-diggin', home-podcast-studio building friends that I want their podcasts, and I want 'em now.
(P.S. It's worth pointing out - no, we are not affiliated with these guys, although personally I'd like to give them a tip o' the hat for putting together some cool-looking DIY FM broadcasting tech.)
A huge shout-out to webpronews.com
Date: 11/28/2006
A huge, huge thanks to David Utter and webpronews.com for helping spread the idea with 'Streaming Could Cure Podcasting Blues'.
Thanks David!
I love it when someone else says it better :)
Date: 11/26/2006
Sometimes I am lucky enough to find someone else who has already - and rather elequently - expressed some of the fundamental theories behind my reasons for launching this project. I had one of those moments yesterday, after running into Tod Maffin's How Podcasting Will Save Radio, published at radiocollege.org.
Podcasters may indeed revitalize the art of radio itself. And they're hitting it in all four of radio's vanguards: Sound design, talent, revenue, and distribution.
Well, ok .. maybe everything but that third point. But it's a good read nonetheless.
The first few stepsDate: 11/25/2006
Hello, everybody.
Sometimes I'll get an idea stuck in my head and just refuse to let it go. Broadcast Your Podcast is one of those ideas, one of those things I just can't put down until I've tested my theory out.
For those of you that missed it, the theory is this: Some podcasts out there would make an awesome transition into a streaming radio format.
Both internet radio and podcasting are seeing a nice steady climb in listenership. Internet radio, however, suffers from a glut of stations set to 'jukebox'. That gets real old, real fast. Meanwhile, Podcasting is seeing a very low return listenership, and estimated by some to hover around the 1% return-listener rate.
Personally, I think the two distribution systems can complement each other. Podcasts could bring a glut of well-produced, interesting niche content to online radio. Meanwhile, Online radio could help introduce new listeners to interesting podcasts by putting them out there for discovery.
Streaming audio and podcasting: Two great tastes that might just go great together.
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Who am I? And why am I doing this?
I'm Bryan. I'm a Cleveland-based web geek and sysadmin. I write articles, I run some weird online experiments, and I have about a dozen sites that I manage for myself and others.
I've been working heavily with streaming audio and other radio-related concepts lately, and the Broadcast Your Podcast effort stems from that side of my work.
