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Intro to Podcasting!

First thing's first, have you listened to the Turing Podcast?
https://soundcloud.com/user-760220162

Outline

  • What are your favorite podcasts?
  • What makes a good podcast?
  • what makes an interesting podcast?
  • What do you need to podcast?
  • Let's just record a mother-f#%@&!g podcast

What are your favorite podcasts?

  • NPR podcasts
    • Freakonomics
    • Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me
    • How to do Everything
    • Serial
    • This American Life
    • WNYC's Radiolab
  • Comedy
    • Doug Loves Movies
    • The Dollop
    • TOFOP
  • Ruby
    • The Ruby Rogues
    • Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots

What makes a good podcast?

  • What topics interest you?
  • How does quality affect your listening time?
  • Do any speech patterns drive you crazy?

What makes an interesting podcast?

  • This seems very similar to the question above, but I mean what makes a podcast interesting to you, or to a specific audience.
    • Could a three hour long podcast about world history be interesting?
    • A sports podcast?
    • An hour of a comedian/magician talking about random stuff?

What do you need to podcast (as a verb)?

  • The setup
  • The topic
  • The talent?

Let's do this mother-f#%@er!

  • What's our topic?
    • If we have someone from every module I'd like to get suggestions for what the module below should do/study over the holiday break.
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