Comments on: Creating good podcasts http://www.picklejarcommunications.com/2008/05/13/creating-good-podcasts/ social media and communications consultancy Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:01:27 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Tracy Playle http://www.picklejarcommunications.com/2008/05/13/creating-good-podcasts/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Tracy Playle Sun, 18 May 2008 11:41:00 +0000 http://www.picklejarcommunications.com/?p=46#comment-14 That's a really valid point and I certainly wouldn't disagree at all that one of the real advantages of podcasting is the opportunity to capture that authentic conversational voice, as you say. It's one of the things that makes it such a powerful medium afterall and I really do believe that the conversational approach is best - I could stand to listen to anything too scripted. That would be just cringe-worthy! <br/><br/>We can find nuggets of gold in even the most badly produced podcasts (or anywhere for that matter!). My real objection is partly when the sound quality is so bad that sadly you don't stick around long enough to hear them. I think the content has to be really alluring to make me want to stick around when a) I don't know how long the podcast is going to last, and b) the sound quality makes it difficult to listen to. That’s a really valid point and I certainly wouldn’t disagree at all that one of the real advantages of podcasting is the opportunity to capture that authentic conversational voice, as you say. It’s one of the things that makes it such a powerful medium afterall and I really do believe that the conversational approach is best – I could stand to listen to anything too scripted. That would be just cringe-worthy!

We can find nuggets of gold in even the most badly produced podcasts (or anywhere for that matter!). My real objection is partly when the sound quality is so bad that sadly you don’t stick around long enough to hear them. I think the content has to be really alluring to make me want to stick around when a) I don’t know how long the podcast is going to last, and b) the sound quality makes it difficult to listen to.

]]> By: AC http://www.picklejarcommunications.com/2008/05/13/creating-good-podcasts/comment-page-1/#comment-13 AC Sat, 17 May 2008 17:01:00 +0000 http://www.picklejarcommunications.com/?p=46#comment-13 I think this sort of podcast is following the gillmor gang model of a recorded conference call. Unscripted, unedited, stream of consciousness.<br/><br/>This gives it an authentic conversational voice and is thus the best sort of post-cluetrain PR ! Not to mention a feel that you are eavesdropping on the phone conversation of tech 'insiders'.<br/><br/>I tend to listen to this sort of thing in the background as I work on other things. 90% of it I tune out but there are often little nuggets of gold in there that switch the brain into listening mode.<br/><br/>http://www.cluetrain.com/<br/>http://gillmorgang.techcrunch.com/ I think this sort of podcast is following the gillmor gang model of a recorded conference call. Unscripted, unedited, stream of consciousness.

This gives it an authentic conversational voice and is thus the best sort of post-cluetrain PR ! Not to mention a feel that you are eavesdropping on the phone conversation of tech ‘insiders’.

I tend to listen to this sort of thing in the background as I work on other things. 90% of it I tune out but there are often little nuggets of gold in there that switch the brain into listening mode.

http://www.cluetrain.com/
http://gillmorgang.techcrunch.com/

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