Episode 13: Podcasting about Podcasting
Listen (26 min, 39 seconds)In this weeks episode we take a look at a medium very dear to our hearts and talk about Podcasting. Both locally and internationally Podcasting seems to be the unloved cousin of blogging and Twitter, a fact we obviously find dissapointing. This week we speak to some fellow local Podcasters to get an understand of why they're passionate about the medium despite there being no financial gain for them.
Our guests this week are Brendan Jack from the Brendan Jackast, Simon Dingle from the ZATechShow, Jayne Morgan of the Mail & Guardian Podcast as well as Glen Verran from the ZAShow. We roundoff our lineup with international Podcaster, Brian Dunning of Skeptoid. He brings us an international slant on the medium. Brian answers our burning question of whether we could one day gain a massive following and quit our days jobs. The answer he provides is quite surprising. Finally we speak to our very own producer, Brandon Rogoff to get an idea of what it takes to put together a Podcast. Brandon is the genius that puts together our Podcast every week and makes us sound like Brad Pitt or George Clooney.
As always, we have a roundup of the news with Kerry-Anne Gilowey of Cape Town Daily Photo. In our Agency of the week we're joined by Justin Spratt of IS Labs and the show ends with Mike Stopforth giving us his second of four "Tips and Tricks" of Social Media.
Guests:
Justin Spratt:
Justin is an Australian, living in South Africa, working for the country's leading network service provider, Internet Solutions. He is also involved in a web start-up called Vottle.com and helped found ISLabs incubator.
Brendan Jack:
Brendan Jack, star of Crazy Monkey, Straight Outta Benoni and Footskating 101. Often regarded as the South African Olivier, Brendan has launched a new online show called ‘The Brendan JACKast', a series of hilarious interviews that you can download
Simon Dingle:
Simon is an independent writer, broadcaster and speaker based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He compiles the technology pages for Finweek magazine and write for Fin24.com. He also contribute to Live Out Loud and Net.Work magazines, present radio shows on Talk Radio 702, host the ZA Tech Show podcast and work as a freelance writer and master of ceremonies.
Jayne Morgan:
Jayne Morgan has a background in radio and media relations. She runs Podcart which makes quality podcasts for South African brands.
Glen Verran:
The ZA Show Podcast is produced by Glen and Bridgitte Verran who reside in the beautiful city of Cape Town in South Africa.
When you listen to the show, you’ll be faced with a very informal, relaxed, down-to-earth show dynamic where we love talking about anything South African from our culture, our viewpoints on local news, soundseeing tours of places we visit, interviews, why we say braai instead of barbeque, what biltong and droëwors is, also to throw in a couple of Afrikaans, Xhosa and Zulu words and play the very best in South African podsafe music.
Brian Dunning:
A few years ago, Brian began searching for interesting and unusual phenomena in Internet forums and mailing lists. More than once, he tried to open a discourse offering alternate, more reasonable explanations for the reported phenomena, as diplomatically and respectfully as he could. Thus Skeptoid was born.
Brandon Rogoff:
Brandon is the man that makes The Digital Edge sound as good as it does. Infact, he's so talented that he manages to make our voices sound better than they are in real life. In his spare time he works on all things audio.
Mike Stopforth:
Mike Stopforth is an entrepreneur, writer and speaker who helps companies extract value from Web 2.0 trends and technologies to create smarter, more profitable businesses. He heads up, Cerebra South Africa's leading social media company.
Links:
IS Labs: http://www.islabs.co.za/
The BrendanJackast: http://www.brendanjack.com/
The ZATechShow: http://zatechshow.co.za/
The M&G Podcast: http://www.mg.co.za/podcast
Podcart: http://www.podcart.co.za
The ZAShow: http://www.thezashow.com/
Skeptoid: http://www.cerebra.co.za/
Cerebra: http://www.cerebra.co.za/
Cape Town Daily Photo: http://www.capetowndailyphoto.com/
Jarred Cinman: http://jarredcinman.com
Saul Kropman: http://saulk.co.za
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