Haha, I start a podcast (RSS) in this blog as well. And the first guest is James from Studioduplo. In my previous post I mentioned about doing a podcast with him, here it is!
I learned a lot from this conversation. I think many people will be like me and wish to start a business like that someday. Well done to those guys!
[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/studioduplo/studioduplo.mp3]
One of my favour Chinese podcast is Antiwave. I like their professional editing and also the selection of topics. Sometimes they can get some quite exclusive interviews which might not be heard in normal media. Just read from Flypig’s blog (one of two podcasters) that they had a interview in DaiweiTV. The video is blow, for those who are in China this link might get a faster access.
I’m thinking to resume my podcast site WeAreTalking.net, but need be after my assignments schedules.
I spent about the whole night last night and a few hours today to redesign WeAreTalking.net. I used Damn.be’s Milc3 template as the basic structure and add some more visual buttons to replace text links. It looks better now I think. Also, I changed the display post number into only one in index and use this hack to show up all posts when view archive and category.
It’s so much fun to do the design, but it’s very time consuming as well. However a good blog is not all about the its design unless it’s a designer’s blog, what’s more important is the CONTENT. Wang Jianshuo’s blog is one the examples. I guess he is geeky guy who will enjoy playing around with plugin and coding stuff, but he try to prevent that in his blog, instead, he focus more on the contents and the consistence of writing. Although his blog’s design cannot be any simpler, its traffic will probably make most blogger jealous.
I think I should put more useful and interesting contents rather than spending too much time on making the blog look nicer. Same as podcasting, what’s in the talk is definitely more important than how to listen to the talk.
I said I wanted to try podcasting, and now here we go. My podcast site ‘We Are Talking‘ is there, and it has been there for a few days already!
Thanks to Yahoo’s domain promotion, I got the domain ‘WeAreTalking.net’ for about one pound a year. As I am thinking to do some more Chinese podcasting in future, I also got the ‘LiaoLiaoTian.net’, which means ‘have a chat’ if pronounce it in Chinese. Domains for podcasting sites are better to be easily remembered when people hear it, because it’s not in written. So I guess these two are fairly easy to remember. However, since I bought in Yahoo, it seems not accessable in mainland China :(
After trying it, I can say podcasting is really that easy to do! Here is a little guide I could think of and hope maybe helpful for those who want to have a try.
I haven’t figured out what’s the exact theme for this podcasting site yet, but because I am interested in cultural differences, I would try to find some topics about cultural diversity, the thing that is different. The first one I did with Jay was about his life in Beijing last year, and the second one was with my classmate Ian who is BBC (British Born Chinese). It was interesting to hear his experiences of being a BBC and how does he feel when other people see him with such a special identity.
I will try to do one or two a week depend how busy I am and whether I can invite friends to do interview. If you are interested to join, welcome to drop me an email. Don’t worry if you are in China, Japan or America, we can do it over Skype too.
Podcast is fun!