Podcasts

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Poems from your virtual great grandmother

September 25, 2020

Listen to some poems from your virtual great grandmother. They’re from “How To Be Old” but they speak to young people in their teens and twenties.

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Home recording studio V.4

May 13, 2020

Here’s my home recording studio, the umpteenth version, for video recording. It’s taken me years of random experimenting to find this system for softening the sound of my voice. Recording for a podcast, sound only, is much easier. Top priority is getting a professional sound for the voice, because nothing makes people switch off a […]

Why people attend longer to podcasts than blogs

September 12, 2019

Here is a fascinating statistic about how different podcasts are from blogs, and not just in the obvious ways. Podcasts are still a minority taste (just), but — 80% of podcast listeners listen to an entire podcast episode or most of the episode. Why such high engagement? More Podcast Statistics (2019) from MusicOomph.com See all […]

What I’ve learned so far about starting a DIY podcast

August 29, 2019

I’m bumbling into this unfamiliar field of DIY podcasts. I’m documenting progress and reinforcing my own learning. Any tips for me, a newbie podcaster?