So I’ve been thinking A LOT lately about my need to un-podfade and podcast again. Work has consumed me, both Purple Stripe and more recently, crayon. In a good way, but a killer-busy way. SCRAPcast has been on the back burner, the PB/J audio babble has been on the back burner. All I can muster up lately is 60 seconds for crayonCast! Gotta change all that. SCRAPcast is hard, believe it or not, because about 14 hours of research goes into every show (well, that includes recording/producing too). Once I start a show, I have to keep rolling with it or I lose my place. Always been like that with that show for me. But I think in general it’s a really good concept and show, so that one will always go on.
As far as the PB/J (being to be known just as the Lynette Radio podcast)… well, honestly, I wonder, what the hell is the *point*? It’s just me rambing on about my mundane and completely average life. The show itself is over two years old, and was never meant as anything more than me just having fun. It was a different scene podcasting then. Now, well, you have to have GOOD CONTENT. You have to be an interesting person, that people want to know about, or famous, or have some huge killer gig going on that people want an inside glance on, or have funny banter with a co-host, or breaking news stories.
Me? Eh. I don’t have any of that stuff. I’m a “B-lister.” TRUST me when I say I’m not fishing for complements (I know Diva will kick in). I have no format, no cool openers, no music, no SHINEY. I’ve always liked the idea of doing a video blog, isn’t there a term for that? I just got done watching an episode of a video podcast from Anji Bee, and think it’s a really interesting format. But I think she is a very interesting person, and what she has to say is interesting to me because of it. I remember meeting her briefly at the PME last year, and (if I remember correctly) hearing her say she was interested in starting that show or that she had just started it up. But she’s got fan interaction, and a fan base from her music. Maybe used to performing in front of people ’cause of the music. (I just ran into her in Second Life, hence the reference to her…it got me thinking.)
I suppose even if *I’m* not interesting some of the places I’m going or people I know or things I do may be interesting. Video blog? I can’t promise makeup or an interesting backdrop. Or interesting topics or conversation. Or a regular schedule. LOL, I Twitter, I don’t blog or podcast. What drives YOU to keep going?
Let’s keep each other going! I’ve been dying to get you to co-host with me for like EVAHHH!!
If I gotta come to your house and shove the mic down your throat I will! Don’t make me go to extremes.
*muwah*
What keeps me going?
A story a day until the day I die.
At this rate, I’ll live forever.
(But I won’t light up the sky like a flame)
hey lady!
that was fun today in SL.
i’ve been wondering who my vidcast audience are, myself. i don’t think many are really my old lovespirals fans. i seem to be finding a whole new group of folks that like watching vidcasts. since i posted on the rumor girls forum, i’ve noticed several of their more vocal fans posting on my blog. they’ve subsequently become fans of my music, but were first fans of the vidcast.
there’s a whole group of people who are getting hooked on this vidcast format from youtube. its like the more real version of reality tv, i think! it’s probably a phenomenon that will be associated with this particular moment in time.
wow, i should have saved this for the show, huh?
anyway, i say just go for it. if you like talking to yourself, it’s actually kinda fun.
love–
anji
I have been missing Scrapcast! I appreciate the hard work that goes into it… IT SHOWS IN THE QUALITY!! Scary thing is as I started to write this I saw my scary face in your Flicr.com badge of our picture at the last podcast expo.