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Re: Nerds on the Rocks - Now on iTunes!
Old 05-05-2010, 08:27 PM   #4
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Just one constructive criticism. Keep the running length down. Actually, what was the running length? I think it should be 30 minutes or less. Ought to be able to get a lot said for three topics in 30 minutes.
I guess it depends on what kind of podcast this views itself as. I'm a voracious podcast listener (it helps to pass the time at work), and my subscriptions fall into two broad categories. The 30 minute podcasts generally act as a summary of several topics with a couple of side points thrown in and enough discussion to get about an inch deep into the issue. The hour long podcasts go more in depth into a few topics. Since I didn't create the podcast and I'm just hanging out at the bar, I don't know which one it's conceived as. But it seems more comfortable as a discussion podcast focusing on just a few topics.

That said, and with no slight intended toward magus113, I do think it would be helpful for the host to keep an eye on the clock so that we don't spend too long on any segment. I think that each person's individual cocktail chatter story could probably have been disposed of in 5-8 minutes, for example.
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