INTERVIEW

Dumpster Bust Interviews: Michael Geoghegan of Reel Reviews - Part II

Written by Eric Berlin
Published March 23, 2005
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Adam is certainly at the center of this whirlwind. Invariably, if you get introduced to podcasting, you'll eventually find your way to Daily Source Code. But, you know, it's getting to the point now where there's over 4,000 shows. And so the nice thing is while his show is by many considered necessary listening, the beauty is you can find what you want out there right now. If all you're interested in is independent rock, you can go find that.

EB: Podcasting is obviously in an amazing growth period right now. Where do you see it headed from here?

MG: It's been absolutely explosive, and I see it continuing to go that way. The concept that someone can sit in their bedroom late at night or spare office or whatever it might be and broadcast to a worldwide audience is something that everyone I discuss it with instantly gets excited about. It's a great concept.

And the fact that with audio you actually get to hear the person - I think that conveys so much more at times than writing can. I had no background with radio or anything, but I felt like I could convey my thoughts much better by recording my voice than by typing up a movie review or something.

So now, people keep getting involved. And the growth curve keeps getting steeper and steeper as everybody realizes that it's not that hard. The tools are getting easier. It's still not the easiest thing in the world to do today, but it's much easier than it was six months ago.

EB: That leads me to an interesting question. Podcasting is a different form of communication, and I noticed that the blog associated with Reel Reviews looks great and works as a place to check out what's going on with Reel Reviews podcasts. That led me to think about the combination of blogging and podcasting. They kind of seem to work in tandem, and I was wondering if you had any thoughts on that.

MG: Obviously, the early adopters of podcasting were people who were familiar with blogs. I would think that I am an anomaly in that sense. I never had a blog, and frankly didn't understand why somebody would even want to have one. Like the rest of the public, I had read that there were all these people blogging, but the whole thing just never made sense to me.

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EBb-dayEric Berlin is the Executive Producer of Blogcritics.org and publisher of Online Media Cultist. He's also prone to referring to himself in the third person in author bios in an attempt to make it look like someone Less Important wrote it for him. Contact: dumpsterbust@gmail.com
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Published: March 23, 2005
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Section: Sci/Tech
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