I look forward to the next broadcasts.

BAK

I see that the link to it that used to be on the IABC opening page is gone, and I couldn’t find any other links until I went deep into the news centre and found the original announcement news release.

I know, I know, someone more teckie than I will point out lots of links.

But where’s a nice, clear, obvious link?

Unless it’s time for a black tie and a somber expression and the sending of some flowers.

I was looking forward to the next edition, and have looked every three or four days for about a month.

Dead or alive?

BAK

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If you really want to have an effective podcast, get off the script! That drove me away immediately. It will have to be a real conversation to get me listening.

I’ll try this one more time…that’s about all you have with most people: two strikes, and if there’s no improvement on the second try, you’ll be out.

For podcatchers, try Juice (http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net) or Podcast Ready (http://www.podcastready.com).

Thanks for the kind words about my “Writing” workshop, by the way. I’ll be addressing podcasts and other social media, including writing dimensions of social media, in the workshop I’m doing for Ragan, which comes to Toronto on November 13-14.

So clicking the link in the trackback above will take you to the post I wrote about the podcasts. Some words, as you say. A suggestion to subscribe. You click on that link (as most normal people would) and you’ll see what looks like complete gibberish on your screen. That’s the raw XML code. Huh? you might say. Indeed!

What you have to do is right-click (if you have a Windows PC) on the link, then copy the shortcut into your RSS reader, then… But who wants to go through this kind of palaver?

Unfortunately, this is broadly where things still are in terms of some cool technology vs ease of use. What you want to do is just click something and that’s it.

If you use the Firefox web browser, you can actually do that today – just click on something and you’ve got the RSS feed. Firefox doesn’t call it that (it’s known as a Live Bookmark), which is good – makes for greater simplicity and ease of use when you know that all you do is click and you’ve got it. The forthcoming Internet Explorer 7 has similar ease of use built it.

If you want to know more about RSS, CNET Reviews has a good tutorial. Even though it was published two years ago, still valid today.

Things are getting easier. In the meantime, though, you gotta do that right click and know what to do next.

But I need to find a wooden shoes store tomorrow, because I really am a Luddite.

In Neville’s words, there is a subscribe button so, desiring to get with it and modern and hip (or is it hep?), I clicked on it.

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The above is what I saw., except much longer. So, I’m not subscribing, I guess.

Regardless, I’m looking forward to the next edition. Is it going to be scheduled, or random updates?

Yesterday’s media training involved role playing, including me as a friendly-but-aggressive television interviewer (Imitation Michael Vaughn for any Canadians reading this) and I wonder about the range of interview techniques we’ll here in the new aural Cafe.

Good luck — BAK

So I clicked the headline and gave up waiting, but I’ll try again.

My “lessons” comment about how to connect a phone was based on one of your pieces, where the call was crystal clear. However you did it, it worked really well.

And I’ve been thinking about the thhics question in the middle segment. Tonight I’m in the IABC main web site trying to find the code of ethics so I can decided whether referring to it as “robust” is ethical. Are there penalties for unethical behaviour? I’ll go look.

I certainly think the very positive references to media coverage, especially the bit in BusinessWeek, are stretching the ethical envelope.

Are you going on the road teaching “writing for podcasts” like your old writing for the web? I’ve still got one of those binders around somewhere. That was a good course.

BAK