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Continue reading →: Please Watch Things Heard & Seen. It Sucks
Things Heard & Seen is one of my most watched films on Netflix. I have seen the entire film at least three times, and the last 10 minutes or so countless more. I’m obsessed with it. I think about it at least twice a month and have since it came…
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Continue reading →: How Mermaid Palace Balances Intimacy and Vulnerability
The Mermaid Palace team talks tactics for bearing your heart and keeping it safe It’s both fact and cliche that podcasting is an intimate medium. This concept is something audio veteran Kaitlin Prest has spoken about for years: “I’m a straddle millennial. I worked in the age of actual broadcast…
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Continue reading →: A Guide to Managing Your Podcast Workflow
Podcasting will keep you busy. Scheduling, writing, editing, marketing, managing social media, and keeping up with emails upon emails can make it all seem like a lot sometimes. Fun as it is, podcasting does—like any job—involve some stress, and managing that requires some planning and intent.. To avoid feeling overwhelmed,…
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Continue reading →: Oh My God She Literally Did It Again
7/4 to 4/4 and everything but the vibe is so different are you kidding me are you for real right now are you for real Yesterday — YESTERDAY! — I published a piece on WILLOW’s new song, “Symptom of Life,” discussing how it feels like a breath of fresh air,…
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Continue reading →: How Welcome to Night Vale Went from Podcast to Live Show and Novels
Jeffrey Cranor talks adaptation, medium, and The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home In the summer of 2012, Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor launched a new podcast, Welcome to Night Vale. Welcome to Night Vale is a fiction podcast framed like a local radio show–but set in…
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Continue reading →: It’s Literally In 7/4
The chorus is in 4/4 but even that has crazy shit going on, like Hello??? I need you to freak out with me: Willow Smith, performing under the stylization WILLOW, just dropped a pop song with verses in 7/4 and a 4/4 chorus with weird syncopated accents. Go listen to…
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Continue reading →: Your Podcast Needs Better Metadata
How to make sure the big-picture information is giving you a leg up In the excitement of starting a new podcast, there are some things that are high-priority and fun—like recording the actual episodes—and some things that just need to get done. Metadata is usually on that second list, and…
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Continue reading →: Your Podcast Needs Better Show Notes
Use them as a resource where you share credit and information your listeners want. Podcasters love getting great audio, but what about great written materials for their podcasts? One oversight in many podcast workflows is making sure your show notes are helping you as much as possible. Uploaded to your…
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Continue reading →: My Current Podcast Subscriptions (Updated 3/25/2024)
Hello again from a refresh six years after I last updated this list. I cannot believe I have been doing this for this long! So, let’s talk about what this list is and is not. Last updated: 3/25/2024Previous update: 5/31/18 If you’re curious about a specific podcast, I recommend typing CTRL+F…
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Continue reading →: Your Podcast Needs Paperwork
Protect yourself first so you can rest easy while you’re creating. Podcasting may be a great way for creative types to scratch their itch—but like all artistic endeavors, it still requires paperwork. We know. It doesn’t sound fun. It doesn’t sound exciting. But we promise that in the long run,…