As you can read on my livejournal I’ve been working on a podcast, called Fedora Reloaded, for the Fedora community with my friend Wade, and it’s been going well. Vrajadhama and I have been discussing our plans to do an Urban Missionary one, and that should be coming up soon.
So far I haven’t seen what I consider to be a good Hare Krishna podcast. Putting a class into an rss enclosure is not really podcasting. (Well ok, technically it is, but it’s not exploiting the fullest potential of the medium, or even really any of it). Putting a monologue to the audience into an rss enclosure is a little better, but it’s still not there. What we need is the aural equivalent of a magazine.
Stay tuned - and if you’re going to change your name, go for Krishna.com rather than UrbanMissionary.info….
What is the difference between “class into an rss enclosure” and “monologue to the audience into an rss enclosure”? I guess the later is directly aimed at the audience listening to the podcast. Is that right?
I find, from listening to many podcasts, that there are some very good monologues, but these require a skilled speaker and lots of preparation/editing.
Apart from that I find that conversations/interviews make for excellent listening. Two people having a conversation + topic of interest + telling a story + editing out of the pauses, ums, ahs, etc. + awareness of that they are talking to a disembodied audience = best podcast ever ( = radio show).
Example:
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail827.html
Or the tech nation series, in general:
http://www.itconversations.com/series/technation.html
That’s right - any presentation is directed at a particular audience. When you put a class into an rss feed you take a class, which was delivered to a particular audience, and then transfer it to another medium, with a potentially different audience. A podcast should be crafted as a podcast with the podcast audience specifically in mind.
One of the best examples (I feel) at the moment is Father Roderick’s popular Daily Breakfast / Catholic Insider podcast. It’s just him, but he accepts mp3 submissions from the public and mixes them in to create a “dialog”.
I also think that the radio metaphor is the best one. Broadcasting a class on the radio is good, but still not optimal for reaching a wider audience. People want conversation, they want a sense of community.