Got your letter about favorite podcasts. That is a very tough question, but I’d have to say the podcast that I always look for is The Best of the Left. Every three days, Jay Tomlinson aggregates the best of the progressive media. He’s always on schedule and always has clips that are funny, make you think or inform you about something you might have missed in the media. It’s the podcast for politics junkies packed with trenchant commentary, sometimes from unexpected places. More unusual, each show has a theme, so you get pretty deep into the topic from all sides, whether it be NDAA, Occupy, congressional follies or deconstructing war propaganda. It’s not your average clip show.

Rob

Updating the links is actually a much easier and quicker process than many would think. PowerPress has a built-in find-and-replace function designed for replacing old enclosures with new paths.

Or if someone isn’t using PowerPress, they could use MySQL to run a find-and-replace. However, while this is “simple,” it has more steps and can easily be intimidating since editing MySQL databases is beyond most podcasters’ experience.

There are other considerations that can cause podfade:
Changes in financial situation – can’t afford internet, hosting, had to sell equipment, etc.
New child, new/extra job – Less time for a hobby even if you are passionate

For me, it was moving to another country where we only had electricity for ~4hrs a day and very unreliable internet. Sometimes the passion is still there, but new physical hurdles still cause podfade.

I know mine is an extreme example, but I’m sure there are others like myself who don’t appreciate the implication that we quit because we didn’t have enough passion.

I also realize that most of these obstacles can be overcome with increased passion, but it’s not to say someone’s passion is on a down-hill slope just because they have new commitments.

Don’t get me wrong, I can sort of understand where they were coming from, as they referenced still *another* podcast from an even bigger podcaster for whom many of us have a lot of respect (hint: he has said podcasting is dead many times, yet also has admitted that 80% of his almost 2 million dollar annual income still comes from his subscription based audio programs, i.e. Podcasts! The wise ones will know to whom I refer). On those shows, they do sometimes go on for a long time on the Audible promos.

However, they are informative, since they are giving their Audible “Picks of the Week”, which aside from the promo aspect, has value as content all by itself.

And then of course, there are the points you have already made so well: we are offering people audio content (in many of our cases). Audible is a premium audio content provider. It is a no-brainer match, and saying it is over-used, is like saying that your car is over used, if it gets you where you are going and you need to go there.

If someone wants to skip ahead, fine. But I really, really love Audible and use their services a lot. They still have hundreds of books in my library in my Audible account and I have not been a paid subscriber for years. My Dad also has an Audible account and he shares his books with me. This is an awesome service and I would be proud to have them as a sponsor and for me, it is providing listeners with a service. In other words, I would be doing it for free anyway, since so much of what I do, is turning people onto great services and other providers of content. Why not get paid for something I would promote anyway?

Thanks again for the 1,2,3 of this and for saying something that, IMHO, needed to be said.
Rabbi Steve

I wouldn’t bother, though. It’s entirely unoriginal fare matched with a talent who defies his status.

I suppose it’s the best Europe has to offer, though.

http://website-in-a-weekend.net/website-design/headway/

It is as you say, a golden egg among WordPress themes. I built my site on it – http://www.thepodcastguy.com – and I’m no designer at all.

I believe that a big revamp impending that will make Headway even more incredible – and easier to use, if that’s possible.

Clay, Grant, AJ, Chris and the team have done monumental things in making WordPress yet more accessible. Kudos, all, and great work Dave for bringing Headway to the world’s attention.

Thanks for all that you do for podcasting and the people that are trying to get their passion off the ground.

I can add a few very important features (there are many)

1. When you tag your mp3-files before publishing ALL tags are included, you don´t have to use eg. MP3-tag software to include image for Windows Media Player

2. You can create a podcast feed and upload throug ftp in just one click – we do that for European Podcast Award – and the feed in completely valid http://blog.european-podcast-award.eu/episode-1-of-the-official-epa-podcast-about-the-award-602

3. And one of the new features I am testing right now is – Skype recording – I have been using Callburner and Pamela, but have not been happy with the audio quality – Hindenburg creates better audio – AND you can follow the waveforms of both sides of your call while recording – I just can´t wait to see the reactions on this new feature from podcasters.