OfficeZealot PodCast Volume #1
So we put out our first PodCast here at OZ (See OfficeZealot PodCast on VSTO 2005)... and we did get some feedback, some on the subject, some on the technology implementation.
On VSTO 2005, we heard some of the usual excitement and some of the usual gripes - both seemingly right on. We know we called it “cool” a lot and we think IT IS... but we also know it has some limits too. We think we addressed those fairly well also... but that's the beauty of opinion. We will stick to ours ;)
As far as the technology we used to create it, yeah we had some issues.... Chris and I live 1670 miles apart so we used Skype - free Internet telephony that's pretty impressive and clear but we had some gain problems with latency over the net... I really don't sound like that... oh well... we will work on it that going forward.
But one of the shockers was how many folks didn't know what a PodCast (as defined on Wikipedia) was, and even worse, a lot of folks said “I don't have an IPod so I can't listen to it”. Well... please note, this ain't device specific... sure it has been popularized in the “IPod craze” but its just a audio file... here's the .mp3 version of our first offering: OZ Pod Cast in MP3 Format