Some comments on one of last weeks shows got me to thinking: What was your first podcast and how did you get started listening to them? I think this would be interesting to see what works in expanding the podcast market.
I believe my first podcast was either Ask a Ninja or Anime World Order. I found them while browsing through itunes after I saw some weird link that said "podcasts".
My first podcast was The Shooby Show, which I genuinely liked and it inspired me to do my own podcast. The kid doing it quit, then returned after a year. He had turned into a pompous, podcast-flaming, troll. I stopped listening.
I believe my first podcast was either Ask a Ninja or Anime World Order. I found them while browsing through itunes after I saw some weird link that said "podcasts".
Ask a Ninja here, as well. Sadly, the newer episodes don't seem as entertaining as the earlier ones.
TWiT I think. If it wasn't TWiT it was Daily Source Code or Comic Geek Speak. The only one of those three I don't listen to anymore is DSC. I found all of them in the iTunes podcast directory the day I got my iPod nano.
I found the MacCast and Cinema Rant right after buying my mac. I still listen to most of the MacCast and I listen to Cinema Rant when they bother to post a show.
This is somewhat surprising to me I guess. Interesting! I say it fairly often, but I avoided podcasts for the longest time mostly due to the fact that the vast majority of them are terrible, both in audio quality and in content.
Even the podcasts I do enjoy, many of them are barely listenable just for the lack of sound processing and proper microphone use.
NPR's On the Media - I was big fan before I moved in 2005, but local NPR station in my new home town didn't carry that particular program. While investigating methods by which I could listen to my show through the intrawebs, I stumbled apon the concept of podcasts.
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I really liked the website, and thought that a podcast made by them would be great.
Because Rym had a link to it in his AIM profile.
I never listened to a single podcast until well after we'd started doing GeekNights.
GeekNights was my first and I was put on to it by a friend and fellow listener.
Even the podcasts I do enjoy, many of them are barely listenable just for the lack of sound processing and proper microphone use.