I don’t have anything to say. Just explaining the mysterious, two-week absence by saying I’ve been busy. Believe it or not, podcasts tend to require more time to complete than just writing a post. In addition to the recording time, they require a lot of editing — which requires me listening to the entire thing, multiple times — because I do these extemporaneously, with no preparation other than a few thoughts in my head and, rarely, a beat sheet reminding me of what I wanted to talk about. As a result, I sometimes go off on tangents that stray too far from what I actually want to talk about, or they’re just boring and/or ill-conceived. I pause, gather my thoughts, and start over.
So it takes me about three hours to make a podcast, as opposed to 30-60 minutes for a regular blog post. It’d be different if I had more brief, minor rants like my grocery store-based rage, but I tend to gravitate more toward long-form… Well, rambling, basically.
I hopefully have some exciting things on the horizon, but I don’t want to talk too much about them just yet.
Posted by Stan on March 20, 2009 4:18 PM