Looking through my iTunes yesterday afternoon, checking to see if I have any Go-Betweens music (ah, the things one does to procrastinate while supposedly writing), I was very amused to find my name listed in the ‘artist’ column. WOOT* I’m a star! ;D
I now appear in iTunes as an artist because I’ve downloaded one of the podcasts I recorded for work, on EndNote [mp3 file] no less. I listened to the final recorded version for the first time yesterday and I guess I don’t sound too insipid. There’s a bit of crackling near the beginning, probably because I know nothing about audio recording, but most of the rest sounds okay. Our colleague with audio recording expertise (she used to work in radio) was sick on the day we had to record so we did it anyway – Audacity makes it so easy even CW can do it!
It’s a pity the first ever podcast I’ve done has been on such an unglamorous topic – and the next one won’t be any better, as I’ll be talking about exams and how the library can help with these. Ah well I’ll tell myself I’m doing a public service.
We’ve actually got a competition on at the moment, asking library users to suggest topics for future podcasts, but there haven’t been many entries as yet. There have been quite a few downloads of our recordings, but I don’t know how people have actually subscribed to the series as podcasts. Many people also think you need to have an iPod or other mp3 player to use podcasts – you don’t – but I think this misconception can be a bit of a barrier. A recent report I saw claimed that “most blog readers don’t listen to them”. In a discussion with a colleague over whether podcasting is “just a fad” I argued that even if it is just a fad, it has been a good fad because it has finally gotten my library into delivering information using voice recordings – something that we were always talking about doing but that always seemed to be in the Too Hard Basket.
* woot is one of my favourite words. I sometimes have to stop myself from saying it outloud in polite company and in meetings (as in “Woot! Meeting’s over!”). Definition via Wikipedia, should you need it.
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Woot! I know an iTunes artist. Heheh – i think that’s the first time i’ve used the word ‘woot’. ;-P
WOOT! .. I’ve had conversations online (in-game) where the only word used was woot. It’s surprising how effective it can be š
The other word I sometimes have to stop myself from saying aloud is LOL. I have to remind myself it’s an acronym!