Poptimism Podcast

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Poptimism Podcast

I am DOING this! But note no downloads/mp3s in there yet, but if you subscribe now, i very much hope to have something on there tomorrow morning - and hopefully more than a proof of concept - PROPER CHOONS.

Apart from anything else it should mean i take time to listen to all the YSIs dotted around here. If anyone has any submissions they want to e-mail then send em to poptimism.podcast@googlemail.com, i will also be downloading YSIs.

Trouble is I my "poptimist gatekeeper" rating is quite low, so if I'm overwhelmed with choice (which I think i am already) then my choices may be erratic. I think only 6 mins (10 at the very max) a week would be what i'd want to hear - cutting down tracks to the "most typical minute".

Feel free to point me at YSIs in the comments below, e-mail as above, and if you want to stress the "typical minute" do do so, or I'll take the first minute, unless I too get absorbed into the song and can make my own mind up from the first play!

Another future issue might be that of bandwidth - but that's something we can address if it becomes popular.

Just to brand the podcast I intend to start each one with freakytrigger's address, it'll be 2-3 seconds max.

**UPDATE** (again)

I have put up "podcast zero" with the tracks i had to hand - a "proof of concept" if you like to talk that way. From next week I like to think that we'd have slightly shorter extracts of a few more songs. We should also have a couple of "catch ups" of stuff that's been talking about over the last month or so. (eg I still haven't heard Promiscuous Girl!)

Comments

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i wouldn't worry about it - this is totally experimental. a big part of me tells me that it is wrong headed - i agree with the people on the other thread who summised that they'd want the whole mp3s anyway.

my hope is that a "digest" of many songs will lead people to pursue the whole mp3 that caatches their ears. i did think that we could put just a whole mp3 on it per day, or every other day, but i think that would miss this trick - the lazy digest/overview.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Subscribed.

But, fwiw, let me just go on record (again?) against the excerpts idea. I would MUCH rather have ten minutes (e.g.) of three full songs than 10 clips.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

if we did that, it would be one full song per day, which is just a way to automate the YSI trawl indiscriminately. while we COULD do that, I think that from a bandwidth point of view it would prove draining.

The idea of doing this podcast AS WELL AS having people post YSIs, e-mail to gmail accts etc is to add on this digest for the lazy. i count myself among them - though ironically getting this done will negate my need for it.