I’ve been thinking about my podcast and how I can make it interesting to people other than my circle of friends. And I wanted to avoid using the same bumpers and sound effects as everyone else.
Since I do most of my musings while on the train to or from work and its a long long commute by anyone’s standards I thought I would divide up my segments with train announcements. I’ve wanted to find a way to hide the hiss of the servers in my office where I record but the background tracks always seemed too distracting. So I decided to embrace the noise and break each segment up with announcements like the train guard does : “THe next station is Grately. Please mind the gap between the train and the edge.” That sort of thing. Then I had the idea of changing the entire theme and rationale for the podcast to one about long commutes. I even looked at grabbing the domain. thelongcommute.london . The Long Commute wasn’t taken but it was 36£. So that’s not happening. Also not happening. TLC.london. i might still get a podcast out with that name. Further checking came up with thelongcommute.com which turns out to be a defunct website about…long commutes. A quick glance shows lots of articles about how long commutes are bad for you. Increase wrinkles and cause job dissatisfaction.
I am worried that if I go to iTunes and search for a podcast about commuting I’ll find this exact idea.
Weelll why not do it anyway at least once. I’m hoping for a quiet day/morning in my office so I hope I can get something recorded. Soon I’ll bring my mac laptop and run audacity to capture the whole trip. Evenings seem noisier. A lot of people are trying to sleep right now. I’m trying to stay creative.
So I’ll have a segment of the journey about my week. One about tech. One is just rants to grumpycast. I MUST SEND THAT OFF! And a section for people to call in or write me about their commutes or ask questions about living in London or the UK.
A co host might be interesting but I’d like to do a call in show since I’m paying for a Skype number anyway.
I know life gets in the way a lot so this might take some time. But its worth its own page on my blog.
Okay. I’m feeling ready to look at iTunes.
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