Podcasting Stuff, and Lots Of It

I never imagined the end when I started at the beginning, but podcasting was just a hop, skip and a jump away when I began Encouraging Audiobooks, my downloadable audio book store. Everyone was talking about doing an ezine, but since my business was audio, that seemed somewhat ludicrous to me. Shouldn't I be doing an audio-zine?

So I got Audiozines.com and named my audiozine Your Voice, in the hopes that others would join me in doing audio articles that people could listen to online or download. And join me they did, on many different subjects. It was fun and exciting. I just wished it was easier for people to download everything all at once, instead of one by one or via zipped files.

I tried hiring people to create some program that would download all of the mp3 files at once, but no one would touch the project. Then, Adam Curry developed podcasting and a podcatcher using RSS, and all of my problems were solved. And everything in my world changed. I officially became a podcaster, although that's what I had basically been doing for a while already.

So now, 2.5 years down the road from starting my original business, I'm basically all about Podcasting. Podcasting stuff is my life and my livelihood. I think about it non-stop, I dream about it, I design for it, I program for it...it's not really a passion. Maybe it is best described as an obsession. I see things that I think could be done that have never been done before, and it keeps me up at night (it's 1:35am EST right now - that is proof enough I would think).

So this blog will be about podcast stuff. I will not add audio to this feed. I will be pure. At least I will try not to podcast here - just blog. Plus, truth be told, I'm testing Blogger out for a new project to see if it is easy enough for my future clients to use easily. So even here, I still have an underlying podcasting motive. Oh well, I'm not going to try and change myself. I will accept this wonderful obsession and make the most of it while I can, even at 1:36am EST.

I don't know if anyone will read this, but it's here for the reading. Here's to 2007 - I'm expecting the best from it from the very start!

Penny Haynes, That Podcasting Site