Podcasting
I do like a good podcast. What do I appreciate about podcasts?
- The ability to listen anywhere and anytime
- Getting me to think about something new
- Interview podcasts are better than someone blah blah blah ing
- The podcaster has a clear passion and interest in the topic at hand
Some of my favorite podcasts have been:
- Slate’s The Gist.
- Sporkful.
- Anything and everything from The New Yorker.
- A really great science podcast I can’t remember the name of, sadly, that disappeared some time ago. It discussed a research article every week and interviewed the person who wrote it. This is the podcast I’m going to model with my brand-new podcast.
Introducing “Jill’s Journal Club”
(Please suggest a better name. This is a working title.)
This is a new podcast by a librarian and for librarians, but I’ll try to keep it interesting for everyone. I’m going to try to cover all the things that I myself appreciate about a podcast.
Most importantly, I’m going to provide a service – we all have problems keeping up with our professional reading. So I’m going to tell you the good stuff about an article in my podcast episodes and in the next episode, I’ll interview the author of the article to make it more of a dialog and conversation for you, gentle listener.
I like the idea of connecting people with the same interests with this podcast. My first podcast will have an audience of one = me. My second an audience of two which will consist of me and the person I interview. Perhaps the person I interview will then listen to the third. I’m going to accrete an audience.
The first pilot podcast, however, is just me. I hope you enjoy it! I created it with “Voice Memo” on my 2013 MacBook Pro. I wanted to see if the sound quality was good enough — I think it was. Tell me if you agree.
Here’s a handy transcript of my spoken words: Jill’s Journal Club Transcript 42422