Blogger & Podcaster
I had occasion to listen to all of the current segments (they’re not really “episodes” if they follow several different formats, right?) of the podcast version of Blogger and Podcaster magazine. Although I enjoyed the panel discussions with Chris Pirillo, David Sifry of Technorati and Tim Bourquin of TNC New Media and the Podcast Brothers; the interviews with Robert Scoble and Mignon Fogarty; and Rob Walch’s rant on inexperienced people attempting to become podcasting consultants, I found certain aspects of the podcast to be sometimes grating, sometimes hilarious in their production value (or lack thereof.)
The intro and exit music is pathetic. It’s some lame, psuedo-techno music the producers bought off a audio clip directory somewhere. It just lays there. Then, when your ears are suitably dulled by the mundaneness, a woman’s voice is heard speaking in a somewhat tone-deaf fashion, “Blogger… and Podcaster”. I found myself fast forwarding on my iPod just so I wasn’t subjected to it.
Then, everything got funny. In Jonathon Cobb’s Ready to Make Some Money?, the paid voice talent (they couldn’t get Cobb?) make a reference to a sidebar article by page number. (At 8:02, he actually says, “See Going It Alone, page 35.”)
In reading the excerpt from Glenn Fleishman’s Take Control of Your Domain Names, the announcer spells out GB instead of saying “gigabyte” three times (2:05 and 2:25), again makes reference to a sidebar (”See Warning, page 41″ - 3:13), then to a table (”Page 41″ - 4:06), a figure, a gaff that clearly should have been left on the edit room floor (”While DNS lets you set multiple addresses for a given subdomain, few D… few DNS programs and no popular browsers have a mechanism for failover.” - 5:50), finally culminating in a repeated phrase that also should have been excised (”If you’re hosting your own web site or using a smaller firm, it’s not uncommon for a web host to have a lacuna in operating web sites… it’s not uncommon for a web host to have a lacuna in operating web sites.” - 6:14)
As far as that last goof, no one I’ve talked to knows what a lacuna is in relation to web hosting. Maybe he’s talking about a EULA? Beats me.
That last article should have never been repurposed for a podcast, anyway.
Overall, it’s not a bad podcast to listen to if you’re a blogger or podcaster and would like to keep up with things, but the producer of the podcast version of the magazine needs to wake up and raise the production values a bit.
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