Podcasting

I wrote a little while back about possibly offering a weekly-ish podcast. Well, I’ve finally gotten started, and have the first one recorded. I’m still working on getting it submitted properly to iTunes so that it is searchable, but you can manually subscribe to it, either on iTunes or any other RSS feed. The RSS feed link is: http://augustinianheart.podbean.com/feed.

The first podcast is pretty bad, for a few reasons. One, I am not used to the digital recorder that I’m using, and it’s really sensitive. And so I had it held a bit too close to my mouth, and so you can hear me breathing just a little too much. So that’s one thing. But more importantly, it doesn’t sound like me. I don’t mean my voice – that’s what I sound like. I mean, it doesn’t sound natural. What happened is I basically wrote out everything I wanted to say, and then just read it aloud into a microphone. And so it ended up just being like a recorded blog post. Which is fine, and I suppose has some merit, but I think I can work on making it more natural, more me, in a way that hopefully will make it more effective and something that might help people and that people would want to listen to.

I’ve also added an audio player in the left side of the blog site here where you can listen to the podcasts right here, and I believe you can download them from the blog, too. Anyway, it’s still a work in progress. I may do a second one this weekend, perhaps even today. Mostly I imagine I’ll try to make it a once a week offering. We’ll see how it goes…