20 Years Of Podcasting | A Journey Of Conversational Forms

I bought this example of a Audio-Technica 2020 mic twenty years ago and it’s still going strong today. Photo by Axel Mencia on Unsplash On 5th June 2006 I started podcasting and in 2007 I also started video podcasting (back then we were cool and called it vodcasting). During those early new-media-times it was a bit of a wrestle to get things online let alone captured and created. It was a combination of Skype plus a ropey plugin (can’t remember the name) to capture a single mp3, then tidying it up in Audacity / Garageband before uploading to Odeo which was the only real good option those days then embedded as a player from there into a blog post. For the next five years I was speaking and running training sessions on five continents about how to engage online through celebratory and community-focused content creation, and during this time I also partnered with New York-based charity Global Kids to launch the RezEd podcast, focusing on the emerging virtual worlds and young people,…