Technology

Well, I’ve finally given in. I’ve joined a social network. I’ve been resisting it for years, saying that I don’t need it, that I already have enough friends, that I didn’t want crazy strangers knowing anything about me. I tried mySpace, Friendster, Tribe, and Meetup, and somehow just wasn’t satisfied. Now I’ve found the perfect social networking tool that seems like it was created just for me: isolatr. Join me and be my friend today!

Man, I do not know how people create podcasts. I don’t mean technically… That is easy. I mean, how does someone talk for an hour at a time? Or even ten minutes without stopping? I just don’t get it. I guess people do it all the time — teachers, or radio show hosts, for example. If you’re talking about a specific topic that is very important to you, and that you know a lot about, I guess maybe it’s not that hard to do. But for me… I don’t think I could do it. I’m just not that much of a talker. I think that everyone (or maybe just most people) have a constant internal running monologue in their heads… Things that we think about, little rabbit holes our minds wander down, rehashing conversations, making to-do lists, thinking up great ideas, etc. And I think that the people who can podcast successfully are the people who just naturally tend to make that internal monologue external. We all know people who will just talk and talk and talk, vocalizing what seems like every random thought that pops into their heads to anyone who will listen, or often just to themselves when they think no one else is listening. A real stream of consciousness. These people, the extroverts, are successful podcasters. Rereading that, it seems like I’m stating the utterly obvious. Oh well. This “duh” moment was brought to you tonight by my brain after listening to Radio Free Burrito (Wil Wheaton’s podcast). Yes, for those of you who think that name sounds familiar, he was Gordy in Stand By Me and Wesley Crusher on ST:TNG. He still does acting work, but he mostly writes for a living now, and keeps a blog and does podcasts. He is about my age and […]