Podcasting @ MindSay

As we all know, my main addiction is my IPod. I listen to music, watch films, and my favorite things are Podcasts.  If you don't know what they are, podcasts are like pre-recorded talk/radio shows with just about any topic imaginable. Which brings me to my topic/rant of today: How podcasts are creating "web-lebrities".

 

To define what exactly a "web-lebrity" is, it is someone that is famous for or from different Internet media forms. For example, YouTube and Podcasts have created quite a few of these people. It's interesting just how popular this media mania has become. I have to admit, I do have a couple Podcasters and YouTubers that I enjoy.

 

However, I have noticed something about these 21st century, everyday celebrities. They seem to be just as pretentious and standoffish as "regular" celebrities. Yeah, sure, they thank you for listening or watching, but if you try to chat them up, they come off as quite cross. For example, I wrote to one of my fave podcasters telling them how much I like their show and asked if they had any advice about starting a podcast of my own. The response? And I quote: "Yeah, thanks. About the advice, figure it out for yourself." What the bloody hell does that mean?

 

On the flipside of that, I wrote someone else and they were very nice and helpful. Shite, they even sent me a list of websites and shops to check out by way of advice. So with this, I checked out some forums about podcasting and the such, which is where I found a suprising trend: many people have had experiences with "web-lebrities" that were not so, well, nice.

 

My question is this; is our society so hung up on being "famous" and "above" others that we forget that at one point we were part of the "ordinary people?" Or, does celebrity come with a need to automatically define ones self from the very fans that we so eagerly desire?

 

Keep it Zen!

Boy, so bored yesterday, got a chance to see ALL 25 episodes of Tiki Bar.  Pretty funny - funny like Monty Python, Saturday Night Live stuff.  Bunch of lushes they are!  I hope that there are MANY days between filming - cause they downed a LOT of drinks.  And not the wimpy stuff either!

Don't know them from adam, so I am not personally pushing of site.  There is so much garbage out there that one has to be careful about wasting too much time.

That goes for people too!  They are trying to lure you into an argument or just say bad things.  Best bet - ignore them.  Everything they say will come back to bite them on the - uh, bite them.

I've been looking into the idea of starting a little podcast here on my blog.  It wouldn't be a big thing, just ten or fifteen minutes once a week, and it would probably focus on music I've been listening to... since that's kind of my thing   I just think it would be a fun thing to try, since I've got tons of recording equipment that I don't really use very much.  This is just a test to see how a file would play in the format that I'd like to use (so if it looks real weird for a while, it's because I'm still working out the bugs.  The song is "Promise" by the band Spoken... definitely one of my favorite songs of all time.

We're talking to a company that would basically enable MindSay users to have their own web-based radio shows, kind of like wtf .  It actually functions more like a radio talk show though, as listeners can call in and talk to the host live on-air.  For those that don't catch the show live, a podcast is automatically generated as well.

 

Does this sound like something that may be of interest?  I'm sure not everyone has the time to create a show of their own, but even if you just call in to other user's shows from time to time it seems like it might be fun.

Jeff's podcast Give it a listen!

Podshow PDN {podshow-61ed4859f5e7afa2c6648ac25621036e}

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