International Podcasting Day 17 Years In The Making

Sep 30 2021 • 16 mins

It’s International Podcast Day! A day when podcasters around the globe celebrate their craft and their journey, regardless if they’ve been podcasting for 17 days or 17 years. Speaking of that last one…

I’m going to break down the +17-year journey of one podcaster—me!—if only to prove that, for many of us, podcasting is quite a tangled path.

My official entrance to podcasting started in October of 2004 with The Dragon Page. Soon after that we launched Slice of Scif, followed quickly by Wingin’ It. After adding a podcast we didn’t host called The Dragon Page With Class to our roster, we launched the first scifi podcast network called FarPoint Media. And it was still 2005!

Parallel to all of that, I personally started working with authors to help them podcast, soon creating a network of “podiobooks”, a portmanteau of podcasting and audiobooks, if that wasn’t obvious. Tha directly led to me co-authoring Podcasting For Dummies and Expert Podcasting Practices For Dummies.

parting ways with FarPoint Media in mid-2007, I launched two short-lived podcasts: Cult Cast and Found Things. You’re better for not hearing either of them.

And because I sometimes bet on the wrong trends, I also co-hosted Palm Fu, a podcast all about the Palm Pre smartphone, plus a podcast build on Google+ called The Books & Beer Hangout. You pays your money and you takes your chances.

Some time in there, I decided the world needed more me so I did a limited run podcast called Evo at 11. A show that I’m very, very glad I pulled after 100 episodes. Apparently, I can be an asshole behind the mic. Who knew? (Kidding. I knew.)

Then my wife and I left the country, using a podcast to document our travels around the world. Then I found out it’s a lot of work to produce a journalistic style podcast. But those travels led me to living in Bangkok where I became the co-host of the 2nd season of The Bangkok Podcast. And Bangkok is where my podcast consultancy, Simpler Media, was born.

I’ve been back in The States since 2018, and podcasting is very much what I do. Not just with Podcast Pontifications, but I also do some hired-gun hosting for RadioMD, am the editor for Sounds Profitable, and sit on the advisory board for Captivate.fm, Maps,fm, Scrib, and a few others.

My wish for you on International Podcast Days is that your podcasting journey be as varied and rewarding as mine. Cheers!

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Boostagram Corner:

Thank you, Dave Jackson, for the sats boost! Links in the next section.

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Links:

• FREE 3-week trial of My Podcast Reviews - https://mypodcastreviews.com/pp

• International Podcast Day - https://internationalpodcastday.com

• The Dragon Page - https://www.dragonpage.com

• Slice of Scifi - https://www.sliceofscifi.com

• Tee Morris - http://twitter.com/teemonster

• Podcasting for Dummies - https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Podcasting+For+Dummies-p-9780471748984