By Will 3 years ago, mid-February Leave a comment on this post
I had this idea a few weeks ago, but have only started writing it down today. Podcasting, as you’ll know, is really taking off - for those not familiar, Podcasting is basically amateur radio on the internet. (good article explaining it here). There are hundreds of topics, and people, Podcasting - but no one’s doing a cricket one. Yet.
So - how about this? Once a month (or more/less often) we (the global cricket-blogging-community, henceforth known as crogunity) could “meet up” via Skype and talk about the month’s events, or the recent matches or anything else “cricketly topical.” I, or someone else, could chair the “event” and fire questions to Australia, England, India - it would be a worldwide cricket radio show and would be fascinating (for us, if not anyone else!)
It wouldn’t be too similar to many of the Podcasts out there (a good thing) and could produce some lively and interesting debate. If anyone has any thoughts on this, then…chat away
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Will, I’ve been looking into podcasting for a little while now for a number of reasons. It would be great for a few of us to get together and have a go at a cricket podcast. I don’t think Skype is the best platform for this, however. Ideally it would be good to, say, record a one-hour show and make the archive available on-demand.
Crogunity??? Sounds like a chorus line of frogs 
Cheers
Rick
The only reason(s) I suggested Skype Rick were:
a) It’s free
b) Available to all
c) It works and can do conferencing
So my idea, and I’m just thinking on my “midnight feet”, is we (2, 3, 5, 10 - however many) chat away, and one or more of us records the output. We’d obviously have to structure it - but, we’re all cricket nuts, so that’s not the problem. Another podcaster does this (conferencing in Skype) in the States for his interviews, and it seems to work ok.
What were your thoughts on it and the logistics behind doing it?
Oh - Crogunity, no idea. I’m a wordsmith fanatic! Remember the 2 Ronnies? (F.U.N.E.X [Have you any eggs?])
If you ask me, I would also opt for Skype.
I’d love to be involved if you were interested in an Aussie perspective (be nice!). The only issue for me would be the timezones involved.
Timezones would be tricky, but not impossible. Just depends who’s willing to be a night-owl or an early-bird (I opt for the midnight-owl-role :))
I have Skype. I’m in, if the time can be worked out. Drop me an email.
I’m not all that familiar with Skype’s conferencing facilities, but if there’s enough people willing to run with Skype (and it looks like there will be) then by all means give it a whirl. I would just like to see an archive available to a wider public in mp3 or ogg format.
Time zones will be a little tricky, but I do look forward to the prospect of one of these once the Ashes start
The idea (at the moment) is to talk to eachother via Skype, and I’ll record all the output to MP3/ogg. It won’t be a live discussion for readers/listeners around the world - that’d be pretty tricky - just a roundup of events, we can fire questions to eachother. It’d just be great if we could have representation from as many cricketing countries as possible.
Sounds good, Will. It might still not be too difficult to shoutcast the live proceedings, but it sounds great as is.
Good idea re Shoutcast - but either way, we’ll MP3 it and use the now-standard RSS-enclosure method for distribution. Now, most importantly of all - content and style, what are your/everyone’s thoughts? Mine stand at:
1) Question & answer sessions fired by the “host” to representatives from each country. “Chappell said today of Pakistan that was the best keeper in the world: can you shed any light on him?
2) Discussion of current/recent matches
3) A general cricket chat whilst watching/listening to live cricket (this could be a lot of fun!) - keeping to a guideline of things, but keeping an eye on proceedings and adding thoughts of the current match
Thoughts / ideas / ?
One further point: Skype can only do conferencing for 4 people, which I hadn’t realised. May be enough..we’ll have to try it out anyway. Must sleep…
Can I ask if any Indians, Pakistani, Sri Lankans, South Africans who might be reading, whether they’d be interested in participating? I want it to be as international as possible
Will,
I am an Indian and would love to be a part of the team again depending on the time zone and day of the week.
Keep me in loop if you can,
Thanks,
Gana
Great, will do Gana. Lots to sort out, probably give it a go in a month or 6 weeks’ time
A cricket podcast
A very good idea. I thought of doing a story/podcast about cricket in the Washington DC area. If anyone thought that would be interesting.
ok, I am searching for something to put on ipod for cricket fan husband’s long journeys……. still searching!
Jennifer -
Try http://cricket.rickeyre.com/
He has a couple of podcasts.
I think there is a good size market for a well produced podcast of memorable games or series; not only using audio from them but maybe editing in players comments about their recollections of the game.
Cricket is a natural for podcasts. Personal stories from fans would be interesting. For example, someone spending a day interviewing a groundsman about what goes into maintaining a cricket ground. Or, additional info such as “When watching a match in Chennai don’t leave town before stopping at this resturant for the best…” How about that story your great great uncle told about meeting Don Bradman at the Central Railway station in Sydney? Maybe spending the day with a bat maker as he shapes a new blade. What is the equivalent of a eating a hotdog or meat pie while watching cricket in Karachi? Just a few thoughts.
So, when do we get started on this new show? Which numbers do I call and when do we meet up guys! C’mon this shouldn’t be very hard.
hey this seems to an old post. Is anything happening on this. I would like to contribute. I will give the Indian Perspective of things and would be teaming up with Gana. Dave, I will be nice to the Aussies unless they are playing India!
We had a similar idea, and are aiming for a more evolutionary approach. We started our audio blog/podcast with everyone being live, but at some point are hoping to get the comm. tech. in place to allow others to file opinion pieces that we can include in our round-up. Any ideas on what would be a painless way for random contributors to send us audio entries? One idea was to simply let everyone do their own MP3 files and send them to us via email/gmail, but we’re open to something else like Skype voicemail.
Oh, since the website didn’t show up, the podcast is at http://wattaball.blogspot.com. If you want to subscribe to the RSS feed, it’s http://feeds.feedburner.com/WattaBall.
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