Submitted by johnh on August 10, 2006 - 14:16.
It's that time of year again where I leave home for three weeks and spend every waking moment in the pursuit of all the stress and long hours I need.
Evidence of this can be heard at Festival FM on 87.7FM in the City of Edinburgh, and elsewhere since I finally got the streaming server going. So you can listen to me every day (except this weekend) on the World Wide Inter-Information Super Web Nets at the rather civilised hour of 6pm.
Next week, when my Station Manager's Cellphone isn't ringing every 45 seconds, we'll be putting my money where my mouth was in Dublin in March, where I pissed off the entire Irish podcasting community after being asked a question I wasn't there to answer.
Specifically, I was saying that I find most podcasts unlistenable or pointless, because so many of them try to do things which radio is better at, and so few treat the process as an opportunity to produce (in the studio sense of the word), which for my money is the only potential benefit of not being live.
That said, Festival FM is incredibly podcast-friendly, what with the hundreds of comics, actors, artists and producers coming through the place, thirty or forty times per day, and doing interview/plugs for their shows which last about 15-20 minutes. So you might like some of these as podcasts next week.
Me, I much prefer to listen to it as it happens. Give it a try.
Oh, and feel free to annoy me during the programme as it's happening (another thing you can only do live) by mailing studio@festivalfm.net. Those playing along in the UK can also text 'festival ' and a message to 60300.