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A Blog by a Coin Collector for Coin Collectors
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Should I Podcast?
For the last three years, in over 400 posts, I have written about the coin collecting news, stories, interests, and my collection in this blog. It has been a labor of love and a lot of fun. I enjoy hearing from my readers and find it satisfying to know that someone is reading.

On the third anniversary of the Coin Collectors’ Blog, I am considering branching out by adding a podcast to my repertoire. For those who are unfamiliar with podcasts, Wikipedia defines a podcast as “a series of audio or video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated download, through Web feeds, to portable media players and personal computers.”

The podcast would be a half-hour show (on the average) consisting of a review of news in the numismatic world along with stories and features. I would take audience questions and answer them or find someone who can help me answer those questions. I would try to find guests to interview and even take input and reviews from the listeners. My goal is to make the show entertaining and informative.

If I record a podcast, I will record an audio show and make it available for download from the Internet. I would do it in a way so that listeners would be able to subscribe to the show using Apple’s iTunes and other syndication services for easier access. Advanced listeners will be able to manually download the show.

Are you interested in a coin collectors’ podcast? Let me know what you think. Please let me know by participating in the survey on the right side of this page. The survey will be available until November 16. If you would like, post a comment with your opinion to this note.

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Thank you!!

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3 Comments:
Blogger astroguy said...
I think a coin-related podcast along the lines of your blog posts would be interesting, with a few caveats that basically sum to: I'm not sure there would be enough coin-hobby-related information in the course of a week (or even 2 weeks) to merit a half-hour podcast.

I would suggest aiming for something more like 15 minutes as a target and see where that goes. To make it more interesting, you could try to include different segments. For example, though I think your intent is to focus mainly on news since your last podcast, you could include a podcastly (as in weekly, or bi-weekly, or monthly) trivia question.

Blogger Spudart said...
I highly encourage you to start a coins podcast. As far as I know, there aren't any in existence. A search for "coins" on podcastalley.com gives five results, none of which are focused on coin collecting.

If you did a podcast, I would certainly subscribe. :-)

Blogger zhurnaly said...
Perhaps to start with something short and not too frequent --- 5-15 minutes every two weeks or so? --- would be the best podcast experiment ... you can always make it longer and more frequent if there's huge positive feedback ... ^z