Podcasting – Tom Style!
So I made my first Podcast yesterday…
This was a “practice” Podcast to test out my skills. Took me the better part of the day. For a while, the Home Theater Alliance has been talking about this. Well, mostly Clint and me. And he suggested that I do it because, well, he wanted irreverent. I’m not sure I can do irreverent by I CAN do sarcastic and mean. If I can tone down the mean, I think you end up with irreverent… at least that’s the plan. I’ll probably put at least one more together before I “go live” mostly just to work out the kinks. I’d post the Podcast here but my mic is so God-awfully crappy that it is unlistentoable. There is this high pitched squeal that is coming in either from the fan or the hard drive of my laptop. The only way to listen to it without extreme discomfort to use your laptop speakers as they so attenuate the high end that it doesn’t come through.
So, the next step is to get some better equipment and to make a first podcast for Gene to hear. Clint seemed to like it so I think we are off to the races. I’m going to try to use the desktop to see if that helps the noise problem. If not, all this work I’m doing will never see the light of day because of the poor audio quality. The name of the Podcast? Well, you’re here aren’t you? We bought the URL yesterday and started working on it but it’s still a work in progress. It’ll probably be a weekly podcast at least at first. We’ll see how it goes.