Random Articles

• It All Comes Back To One A year ago, I wrote about how podcasting’s underlying technology biases really, really small audiences. Audiences of 1. This morning, listening to the latest Evil Genius Chronicles, Dave asked how small the audience size has to be before I (you/we) stop. Turns out, my number is 1. Good to know.
• Goodbye BlogDigger, Hello AmigoFish There’s been a problem since the dawn of podcasting - how to find interesting, new things to listen to. For the past year, my strategy: subscribe to the notoriously noisy BlogDigger for say, a day or so then frantically unsubscribe - the phrase “drink from the firehose” seems appropriate here. Listen to everything over the
• Who Are Garrick’s Favorite Podcasters? Funny you should ask. I’ve added a new page to the site - gPod - Garrick’s Must Listen Podcasters. These are the podcasters that make my day. The ones that work my braincells, get me thinking, and remind me why podcasting is so much better than broadcast radio. Like the other pages on this site, this
• “Where the Sheep Shit Grass” AmigoFish is getting really smart. Despite my continual declarations that I’m not interested in fiction, science or otherwise, The Fish sent over Rick Kleffel’s fantastic conversation with Cory Doctorow on our post-scarcity society [MP3]. It’s the most recent addition to the Garrick’s Podcast Picks list.
• Christmas (Funny) in July Cayenne Chris’s Christmas 2006 Tekdiff episode [mp3] finally came up on my shuffled ‘Unlistened Podcast’ this afternoon. It’s one of the best Tekdiff episodes (23 4-star or great episodes in my library), from the Tiny Tree’s First Christmas to bizarre Holiday traditions in unnamed Eastern European villages. Belated Yuletide Thanks Chris.