If you're a podcast listening fan, check out Ear Worthy, my 2021 book about podcasting and podcasts.
The Kindle version is free from March 12-16 on Amazon.
You can get it for free HERE.
This book is not podcasting for dummies or a historical treatise of
podcasting from mp3 files to the present day. Instead, the book strives
to accomplish a few modest goals.
First, it will
assist aspirational podcasters with tips and tools on developing,
starting, and maintaining your podcast. The objective of this first
section is to help you think about your podcast – whether it’s already
on a podcast feed or still in your mind. Full disclosure: It’s not
comprehensive, but it’s not meant to be.
By contrast, Part Two tickles podcast listeners and podcasters' ears by discussing trends and commenting on industry developments. For many podcast followers, questions abound.
Why Podcasts Prove that Timing Is Everything? Podcasts attract “ears” because they’ve dived headfirst into the morass of timely topics, from racial justice to the pandemic.
How Have Podcasts Changed In The Last Decade? Podcasts are longer. They are obsessed with true crime and have outgrown the reformatted radio show template.
When Do We Know There Are Too Many Podcasts? There are well over two million podcasts, most of which are not active. When is “peak podcast?”
Why Are True Crime Podcasts So Popular? Why has podcasting become the birth factory for true-crime podcasts?
Part Three eavesdrops on influential podcasters as they reveal their thoughts on their podcasts, podcasting, and the creative scaffolding they’ve constructed for their successful podcasts.
In this part, we’ll hear from Wendi Zuckerman from Science Vs, and her take on the assault on science by some politicians and news networks. Journalist Áine Cain and lawyer Kevin Greenlee will guide us through the horror of murders at a Burger King and other retail locations on their podcast The Murder Sheet.
Then we’ll revisit our talk with songwriter Charlie Harding and hear his insights on how he and musicologist Nate Sloan build their highly successful music podcast – Switched On Pop – into a podcasting powerhouse.
Other interviews include Mike Carruthers of Something You Should Know. Carruthers reveals how he transitioned from radio to podcasting and the right way to conduct a podcast interview.
In the fourth part of the book, we’ve assembled a sampling of podcast reviews we’ve published for various podcast publications. To be clear here, we’ve chosen these reviews not because these are the absolutely best podcasts on the “feeds” right now, but because they all offer an attribute that makes them valuable to podcasting as a medium and to the listeners.
Consider how long The Nutrition Diva with Monica Reinagel has been dispensing solid and sage advice about nutrition and health for more than 500 episodes. Compare Reinagel’s insight and data-driven mind to TV’s Dr. Oz, who Congress has reprimanded for reckless and unsafe health advice.
How about Twenty Thousand Hertz with Dallas Taylor? A podcast about ---- sound? Yet Taylor massages our ears in every episode with sonic narratives, such as the Ta-Dum! Music intro on Netflix, the Wilhelm Scream, Mel Blanc – the man of a thousand voices – and even the Up and Down tale of the Whoopee Cushion.
In Part Five, we look ahead and ponder the future of podcasting and obsess over dangers – real or imagined.
Finally, in Part Six, we recommend valuable podcast resources.
Get your free copy before it's too late.
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