10 ways to be dropped from my podcast RSS list
Published by on April 2nd, 2006
After coming across Chris Garrett’s post on Performancing.com about how to lose blog subscribers, I thought I’d create my own personal (slightly, but not entirely, tongue in cheek) list about how to get your podcast removed from my admittedly small subscription list; or even not get on it in the first place.
- Just keep doing exactly the same thing in the same way for endless shows. No experimentation + no variety = I get bored.
- Snigger at every pseudo-innuendo comment you, your co-presenter, or your guest(s) make.
- Keep moaning and groaning about the inequities of life, the universe, and your inability to hold down a stable relationship/job/curry.
- Attack users of Apple computers and devices because you can’t afford one.
- Keep asking me to vote for you at some listing site, pay you money to continue listening, or beg for comments just because you have nothing to say and are desperate to pad out the time between music tracks.
- Have no natural sense of comedic timing and think you’re funny to everyone just because your partner/friend/mum laughs at your in-jokes/out-jokes/trousers.
- You think being funny is just a matter of swearing a lot.
- Publicly suck up to as many A-list podcasters, podcast celebrities, or potentially listener-generating websites as you can muster.
- Play recordings of your unborn baby’s heartbeat, your new born baby’s gah-gahs, or your toddler’s first words (play your baby’s farts, belches and first expletives, and I’m there, baby)
- Play Country Music.
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One Response to “10 ways to be dropped from my podcast RSS list”
April 3rd, 2006 at 12:19 pm
re: no. 1: Evolution is a good thing. A podcast can stick to it’s main focus without being boring, but growth is necessary to stay fresh.
re: no 6: I can see podcasters practising in the mirror ala DeNiro to get the timing right… “You listenin’ to me? Are you listening to me?” (Well, at least some really should…) There is a reason some comedy rises to the top and becomes popular— it should be studied for structure as much as content.
re: no. 7: Right on! Swearing itself is not funny. Using it should be as carefully considered as the joke itself.
re: no. 8: Reading comments on well-known podcasters’ blogs and forums, (like Dawn and Drew, Curry etc) can read like a “pick me!” cry for the less popular kids in grade school sports at times. It does get old.
Fun post Neil… Now I know what kind of podcast to create so you stop pressuring me to try it!