I’m a fan of Kara Swisher, the host of the New York Time’s Sway podcast (about tech and leadership and futurology), who has a rather no-nonsense approach to the way the digital media landscape is shaping up. In a way, she’s sort-of the anti-Joe Rogan in this area: where he…

If you’re UK-based and your antenna is tuned to the goings on of Westminster politics, you’ll know Guido Fawkes. It’s a conservative (read: right-wing) gossip site, which very seldom publishes anything that would be of interest to polite society. But, at the moment, there is a grappling within the heart…

What is the minimum adequate recording quality? This is a question that has buzzed around the audio industry since the start of the covid pandemic, like a housefly trapped by the inscrutable magic of transparent glass. Back in the days when we were all sitting in studios, recording on $1000…

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Like any physical object moving through space, I am a sucker for inertia. Every day, I basically stagger through several hours of work, stagger through several hours of life, and then stagger into bed. The next morning I get up and repeat the process. Changes frequently happen to me; it’s…

Chances are, if you’re reading this, you either make a podcast or aspire to make one. If not, then you’re some kind of podcast pervert; a sicko voyeur of an industry you have no interest in. Anyway, weirdos aside, you’re probably all grappling with one of the big questions as…

If there’s one question I’m asked more frequently than any other — in my capacity as a podcast producer — it’s this: how can I get my podcast out into the world? This is a question that recurs far more often than concerns about content or enquiries about production techniques…

What is productive podcasting, you might very reasonably ask. Productive podcasting is something that varies from podcaster to podcaster. It varies by ambition and methodology. It is necessarily unfixed. But, for me, productive podcasting is about making your life easier. It’s about making the experience of podcasting more seamless, less…