Take Outs, the Audio Edition?
Like a lot of folks, I’m thinking about giving PodCasting a try. There’s really three reasons for wanting to do so:
- While I’m not sure about it yet, it looks like I could do twenty minute podcast two or three times a month without disrupting things too much.
- It would be easier to cover "short take" items like answers to questions, community events and what’s going on in my life in that format that writing blog posts about it.
- All the cool kids are doing it: I’ve always been impressed with Dr. Greg Low’s SQL DownUnder and have just flat out enjoyed Wally and Paul’s ASP.NET PodCast.
Some of the parameters I’m thinking about:
- No, this would not be a once-a-week thing. More likely than not, it’d just be whenever I’m on the road with a couple of hours to kill.
- Each episode would probably have regularly occurring parts like:
- Check this out: A quick rundown of techie-blog postings that I think you might be interested in (ala Take Outs, if you remember that.)
- Since You Asked: Questions and Answers about SQL Server, XML, .NET or my non-technical interests -- mainly food and beer. Questions would come from you, the reader/listener, my students o from the newsgroups.
- Read of the Moment: This would be an informal review of whatever book I’m reading (or audiobook) that I’ve most recently been reading, and I think is good and/or not-so-good about it and why this book might be of interest to you -- or not.
- Five Questions For: As the show gets rolling along, I’d like to do interviews with folks who share my passions and interests. If I can figure out how to bridge the audio, I probably will. If not, I’ll just read you their answers to my questions.
- Where We At?: Since I do travel a lot, I’d talk about where I’m at, my trip there and anything that happens to strike me as interesting about getting from point A to Z.
- Potpourri for $100: Most this will be just talking about non-techie stuff like, well, beer. And... Food. And maybe movies and books. But probably mostly beer. And life in Omaha, etc. etc.
Not every episode will have each part. The first three and "Where we At" will probably occur in every episode. "Five Questions For" really depends on who I get to play along with it. Potpourri will run whenever I feel like I’ve got something for it.
- Your input matters! Look, I’m not interested in doing this just to hear my own head rattle, so I’ll looking forward to your feedback as to what you like and don’t. If I do it at all. Which brings me to the last questions...
Would you subscribe?
Of the list of five topics, which one(s) interest you the most? The least?
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