Posted by David Hiran Watson in About Me, Social Media.
Tags: How To videos, podcasts, Tinkernut, twitter, Wordpress, Youtube
I’m thinking about starting a podcast. I’ve never considered it before, but one of the tweeps I follow on Twitter – @minervity – had an article about podcasting. You can find the article here. The article embeds a few Youtube vids, most notably (or at least the one I checked out) was by Tinkernut. Tinkernut, as far as I can tell from the videos I’ve seen that they produced, create How To videos for tech-related things. The video I checked out regarding podcasting was this one. All I need to do now is buy a mic.
Getting back to the starting a podcast idea, even though I’ve never considered it, it suddenly interested me. If you’re someone who reads this blog regularly, you might be thinking: “Podcasts, like blogs, should be updated fairly regularly. If you can’t update this blog that frequently, how are you going to maintain a podcast?” And I state that because it’s the very thought I had. Well, to be honest, I’m not sure how I’ll maintain the podcast. Or rather, I’m not sure how frequently the podcast will happen. There’s a good chance it’s more likely to be maintained than this blog, because in a sense it’s less work as I’m talking as opposed to typing. But I think my biggest challenge is my level of interest – it waxes and wanes. I almost literally have (or at least used to have) interests of the week. That’s why all my social media outlets – this blog, Twitter, Facebook – are infrequently updated. That’s also why having a Blackberry helps: having a constant reminder of these outlets gets me to attend to these outlets.
Anyway, if I do go ahead with podcasting, I will link to the site and rss feed. Also as a heads up, this blog might move. Basically I currently don’t have my own hosting solution (since I don’t have my own website) to install WordPress and run my own blog. Therefore I used WordPress’ free hosting solution – www.wordpress.com. Unfortunately most plugins available for WordPress are available for the version you download, install and set up yourself (via the .org site). This includes an app to host a podcast. However my church is in the process of setting up a website. Once this gets set up, there’s a good chance I can set up my own blog there using the WordPress version you download and move this blog over to that one. I just hope I can move all my current posts, including date/time-stamps.
DH
Posted by David Hiran Watson in Everyday Life.
Tags: 24, Switchfoot, twitter
Listening to “24″ by Switchfoot right now. I think I’m in a “feeling emotionally low and spiritually at a loss” state right now. I also think either my computer is slowing down or the internet connection is slow right now. It took me three-quarters of the song to go to my blog, sign in, and start this post! Actually I restarted the song – I didn’t want to change my frame of mind by changing the song.
Anyway, that’s it for this post; if you follow me on Twitter (@dEhiN), you’ll see that my last tweet was about how I’m feeling low but also tired and was deciding on whether to work out my emotional state or sleep. Well it looks like I’m entertaining the emotional side of my being right now.
DH
Posted by David Hiran Watson in About Me.
Tags: interests, twitter
Now, to anyone following this blog, I apologize that I have not been posting in a while (since the end of last year, 2008). However, I do have some big news: I just signed up for a Twitter account; you can find it at @dEhiN.
As for the sparsity of posts, I must confess that I completely forgot about this blog. Well, at first I gave into procrastination, but as time went on, I forgot about this blog. Part of the issue is that I very quickly move from one interest to another, and so do not tend to ‘persevere’ with an interest for long. I do, however, tend to cycle through a small group of interests. Thus, in the long run, any interests I have get developed.
DH
