The Myvillage podcast

I’m an amateur music producer (emphasis on the “amateur”) and the skills I’ve picked up over the years allowed me to produce this pilot podcast in 2006 for my then-employers, myvillage.com.

Running a podcast was my idea. I regularly download several, including the Media Guardian podcast and What’s Happening in Tokyo? (the best one I’ve yet come across). I figured it was a cheap (well, free) way to strengthen our community and affirm our new media savvy.

(click on ‘play’ to hear the podcast.)

I’m not an enormous fan of the sound of my own voice and there are places where I feel it could be slicker but, overall, I feel it stands up. I like the interview with Seb Fontaine, which took a fair bit of tweaking in a wave editor to get my incidental “mmmm”s and “yup”s out.

Despite my protestations it was never webcast. In my own opinion it compares favourably with many other podcasts floating around on the internet and I’m sure that given room to breathe and, perhaps, a new presenter, the format could have made a credible series. But there we are!

To create this I used CoolEdit Pro, Acid Pro, a cheapy microphone and a rushed afternoon.