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4 podcasts and 3 blogs

I currently have 4 podcasts and 3 blogs - these are described in the links module below - and I'll likely add more.  The subjects range from and include popular culture, new techs, television, movies, Wikipedia, science fictiion, music, politics, space and time travel, good food ... the works!

Let me know what you think of them - what you'd like to see more or less of ... I can't promise that I'll listen - I'm pretty stubborn - but I do appreciate feedback and advice.

To Podcast or Blog? 

a few pointers

People often ask me: do I recommend podcasting or blogging? If I had time to do just one - a podcast or a blog - which would I do?

Well, the question is easy to answer for some people. If you write easily but find it not as easy to speak, you're a blogger. If talk comes easy to you, but written words do not, you're a podcaster.

But there are also some general media principles that apply, and may be of help to you:

  • Podcasts take much more tech savvy and equipment than blogs to produce: Think about it - all you need is any old computer to write a blog. But a podcast takes a microphone, a recording piece of software, and knowledge of how to upload it.
  • Podcasts can be listened to in cars and when someone is walking - in that sense, they have a bigger potential audience. At present, however, many millions more people read blogs than listen to podcasts.
  • Blog posts - at present - can be more easily disseminated and quoted than podcast episodes. All you have to do with a blog post is copy and paste.
  • You might develop a more personal rapport with your audience as a podcaster - a voice is more personal than a word on a screen.

So, think about it - pros and cons for each approach. And, if you're still not sure whether to podcast or blog - take the plunge - try both!

Paul Levinson's Infinite Regress 

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hosts for your podcasts 

sites to which you can upload your podcast, for distribution to iTunes and everywhere on the Web
Mevio
free, professional hosting services
Talkshoe
free, professional hosting services - with live specialty
Libsyn
rates start at $5 per month - main advantage over free services is libsyn gives the podcaster more control over blog, including posting of Google Adsense ads, etc

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    PaulLev PaulLev Apr 6, 2009 @ 3:03 am | in reply to mukunda22
    Best of luck with your podcast!
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    mukunda22 mukunda22 Mar 28, 2009 @ 5:29 pm
    Synchronistically, I want to get a podcast up on our new radio show: Moon, Moo & You: The Collective Wisdom. This is a cosmic verification of what we are trying to do.

    I love to blog and the BTR platform easily translates to podcasting--

    Am still learning the ina and outs.

    Thank you!!
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    MonkeyGroupie MonkeyGroupie Dec 30, 2006 @ 3:27 pm
    I am a lover of sci-fi/fantasy/horror and all things pop culture, so I will definitely be checking out your books as well as more of your podcasts and blogs. I really enjoyed the Trader Joe's podcast. :) Very nice lens!
    Amy
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TV shows I talk about on Light On Light Through 

Battlestar Galactica ... The Wire ... I didn't put these in any specific rank order - they're all great - but feel free to rank them here if you like...

I talk about Battlestar Galactica in the Kidnapped and Battlestar Galactica episode of Light On Light Through and The Wire in the The Wire Without Stringer and The Wire Season 4 in 20 episodes of Light On Light Through...

hyper promo 30-second video for Light On Light Through 

my wife's behind the camera in our den...

Light On Light Through - Paul Levinson's podcast

sampler Paul Levinson's Light On Light Through podcast lightonlightthrough.com (also available on iTunes) - weekly commentaries on new technologies, popular culture, tv, movies, Wikipedia, outer space, politics, science fiction, the works - usually 10-20 minutes

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