I’m listening to lots of Linux podcasts as the moment - you’re still doing better than some. There’s one guy sounds like a wasp trapped in a dustbin as the bottom of the coalshed. Another one I haven’t finished as his voice makes me want to slash my wrists!

Press on!
RC

If i remember correctly, James’ internet connection wasn’t very great on that day. Why do I sound like breathing pure helium, I edited the breathing out :O

I can promise that FCP 2 will be a shorter show. One hour shows are great, but this is the time where the listener is right.

I have listened to the Ubuntu UK podcast, I’m good friends with Alan Pope. I actually discussed this with him, and he mentioned that they all meet at his house to record. The UK is a small country area wise, Australia is huge area wise. The UK podcast is just that, a UK LoCo team podcast; FCP is a Full Circle Podcast. Full Circle attracts many people across the globe. As much as I’d love to have all my presenters in my house recording, it is logistically impossible to do so, which is why we heavily rely on Skype (yes I know it’s not open source, but it sounds better than Gizmo). The UK podcast team borrow their equipment from various places. They have a professional mixer, some XLR mics; all I have is Skype, the Skype recorder software, and my Plantronics USB Headset. I do try very hard with what I have, and that is all that I can do unfortunately.

One idea which i would like to explore is the pre-recorded content packages. That would work well with breaking up the content a bit.

Thanks for your feedback, and I can’t wait to read some more

Matthew Rossi.

Technical gremlins no entirely banished; there’s still a lot of audio breakup with the US contributors. Don’t know what’s happened to Matt - sounds like he’s breathing pure helium…

A half hour show might be more productive at this stage.

For the armchair critics, keeping a broadcast tight between a panel who can’t see each other and probably don’t know each other too well is difficult. They will talk over each other until they establish a common rhythmn and style. Seemed to be some timing issues too.

Its still early days, keep going

BTW The Ubuntu UK podcast team can at least get all its folk in the same room for recording and splice in pre-recorded content packages.

Find their first ‘real’ episode at http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/

RC

Thank you for the podcast and the magazine.

I do agree with some posters that it is slightly too loosely recorded. Some connection troubles, some ‘ummmm… whats up next … let’s see’ should be filtered out so the end product is a little more compact and finished.

Finally, and then I’m being a bit of a jerk, please pre-read the articles quoted, and freewheel a little when you lose track of the exact line (keep the talking going - don’t stop). Nobody cares if you say every letter right (or quote the urls down to the nittygritty), but the pauses and ‘ummm…’s’ do matter.

But for the rest I actually enjoyed most of the show. A little rough around the edges, a little ‘young’ but nice. I’ll certainly download the next episode too.