I should mention that I hype up other members of the BlogCritics Radio Network on the show, chief among them The Duke's brilliant podcasts. Since recording, I've learned there are others.

I encourage all members of the BlogCritics podcasting community to get involved, promote and listen to each other, and so on.

And for all non-podcast people, I strongly encourage you to dive in: it's a hell of a lot of fun.

Oh, and I hype up BlogCritics.org quite a bit as well, of course!

Eric, this is wonderful, as i've let you know by now (email permitting). This whole thing, man, with our good selves and donewaiting.com and so on, blogcritics is just bouncin with the audio these days. ITS FUCKING GREAT. and so on. again, brilliant debut.

very nice eric.

gees man, i've gotta get a danged ipod...cuz i have, like, work to do during the day and all of this fun stuff is getting in the way!

Thanks very much, Mark and Duke.

Duke: I'm very excited about the BlogCritics Radio Network, and bringing over people from the BlogCriitcs community to the podcasting community (of which I am a very newbie member at present).

Mark: I think an iPod is one of those key items that once you have it, you have no idea how you lived without it for so long. I instantly plug it in whenever I'm in the car, then recharge and re-up with podcasts and music when I'm at home.

So really, between blog/news feeds, iPods, and DVRs, it's becoming an increasingly on demand world.

Remember when we used to have to wait for stuff? And there were about two or three choices at any given time: Beretta and Love, American Style or something?

yea, i do remember when i had to wait for stuff. particularly information.

now, when there's a question like "hey, was the bass player on blah, blah's first album?"...i just pop on the internet and there it is.

pretty much indispensable for writing about music (or anything, really)

You're right, Mark. I'm finding that (for me, at least) there's little excuse not to find something I want to know. For example, I'm using Google and Google News more and more to fact check, get correct names, characters/actors in shows, background info, and on and on.

downloaded it in 1m20s. it's fine the file size is very comparable to others i've seen.

now for the listen ...

Thanks Temple -- that's good to hear. Nonetheless, I recorded at something something rate that should have been something something else rate, which I'll fix for next time.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

Voice very harsh in the first introduction. It got better. Not music oriented, which for some stupid reason I was geared for.

A lot of good explanation about Dumpster Bust (I had wondered). It started to turn into a Dumpster Bust infomercial though - but it is the first show.

Not a boring annoying voice you have to sit through. Big ups there because no matter the subject if you're a pain in the ass to listen to, well I've got plenty of less time-consuming places to get such a pain.

A lot's going to happen "in the future"

Funny moment: Off the cuff after he takes a sip of coffee to calm the throaty itches - "Let me promote coffee to the kids out there. If you start when you're 14 you'll still be drinking it when you're 31."

Second funniest: He wants to watch the Sunday politics shows.

Talks about culture - tv/ video primarily. Seems to be riffing all the way through, wihch if I tried you'd have a lot of dead air.

Looking forward to the next one.

I guess it was this

Track #1 (Show Intro): "Black Star" - Apash
#2 "Achtung (...hier kommt der Schlocker)" -Schlockmaster
#3 "So was willst du?" - Schlockmaster
#4 "Dub o Matic" - Futura Bold
#5 "Bass Melody with Guitar" - Michael Renkema
#6 "Event Horizon" - Michael Renkema
#7 "It's Like Your Heart's the Color Yellow" - Heroes That Hurt

... that made me think there would be music :-)

Wow -- my first podcast got blogged! Thanks very much Temple.

As I tried to slyly explain in the post above, I spent so much time working on the tech part (probably three to four times the norm as it took me days of tinkering with audio engineering software to realize that my PC was not suitable for recording... eventually switched to a laptop that was 900% easier to work with) that I wound up with a largely improved first show... And I realized how bloody hard it is to speak into a microphone at length without sounding like an idiot!

I plan on making future shows much tighter, much more efficient, much more broken up into segments under the headers I talked about: Keeping It Real Politik, Up in Your Ear, Cathode Ray Fray, and so on.

I'll still leave time for asides, but future shows will be shorter and focused on two or three major topics.

I now have a much better handle on the editing side as well, so I'm hoping overall production will continue to improve.

I'll have music running in the background more-or-less throughout the show. I'm wondering what people thought of that. Was it distracting, or did it add to the show? I happen to think it's cool to get interesting content and music at the same time, but I'm curious to hear what other people think.

Thanks for having a listen Temple, and for taking the time to share your thoughts.

The music was only distracting when it stopped.

Okay, no more stopping, I promise.

And Eric, i forgot to say, the magazine format worked perfect in translation from blog to audio.

Very cool. I plan on tightening up that aspect as well, as in I'll announce the stories I'll be talking about on the show (no more 10-minute Dumpster Bust infomercial, Temple), and then diving headlong into it, using music a little bit better as well to set the mood, etc.

It's a whole new world now that I can concentrate on format and content and post-production stuff!

Thanks to everyone who listened to the first show -- this feedback is outstanding to me in working out some of the early kinks.

Eric, I love that you used the phrase "Epically amped" about the Buffy movie.

Thanks very much for having a listen, Katharine. You know, I don't even remember saying that... was I talking about Serenity? Sounds like a phrase I would use in a moment of manic inspiration!

I really think that my second show came out significantly better overall. I'd love to hear your thoughts, of course.