Verbal Diarrhea

Hello. Welcome to a podcast with Chris Enns, your daily ish audio show from my mouth to your ears, which sounds really disgusting, but it's kinda true. This is a show that I've been sort of thinking about doing for a while, and it's more of a not so much for you guys, whoever happens to listen, but more to just push myself in this medium of podcasting that I enjoy doing, to try and just like I'm doing right now, come up with a conversation and a topic and talk off more or less off the top of my head. I have some discussion topics and some ideas and things that I've been sort of thinking about, but kinda just a bit of verbal diarrhea as it were to continue the disgusting metaphor I started with. So it aims to be about, like, ten minutes or less.

Not definitely not any longer than that. Most likely, we will be solo, just be by myself. But who knows? We'll see where it goes. Or if it even goes anywhere, that's the thing.

I have a bad history of, starting these kinds of things, spending hours setting up a website, registering a domain, those kinds of things only to let it die on the vine, fizzle out to use Chase Reeves and companies, fizzle.co, business brand marketing site site tagline. But, so but still, I keep at it, keep trying it. There's nowhere to go but up when you constantly kill your side projects all the time. You should always add new ones. So in the midst of, as I'm recording this, we're, Adam Clark, Tim Smith, I, and myself, and a few other folks are developing and setting up goodstuff.fm.

New podcast site that we're we're building, CMS that's being built for it, developing, you know, branding and all that kind stuff as well as a vision for what it's gonna be and processes for how people can get their show on there and all that kind of stuff. And in the midst of that, I still feel like the need to start yet another podcast, set up a new domain. I'd I'd registered podcast.ca, so that's pdcst.ca. I have a thing for killing vowels, I guess, as in addition to killing side projects. And, I'd registered a while ago during a discussion on, the intellectual radio program, show that I do with Adam Clark and Tim Smith and, which will be moving to goodstuff.fm.

But for right now, as of this recording, it's on ssktn.com. And, so I registered CHIRP and or registered podcast.ca. Should register CHIRP. It's probably registered already. Podcast.ca just does a half joke, half serious thing of, hey, that's kind of a neat domain to pair with SSKTN, but not really sure where it was gonna go and what I was gonna use it for as usual with most of us who registered domains for no no real reason.

And, yeah, had various ideas of maybe it'd be a podcast training site where, you know, a membership thing, that kind of stuff. And maybe it will do eventually. Who knows? But, for now, it's the home of this show. I'm gonna be using it as a bit of a digital playground for messing around with WordPress and PowerPress.

That's the podcasting plugin I use. The theme right now is the the automatics, default WordPress theme in 2014. Set up with a child theme and just kind of to play with that as well and not, you know, with a site like SSKTN and eventually good stuff, obviously, there's less opportunity for me to just mess around because you're gonna screw up a whole bunch of people's stuff when you do that. A whole bunch of shows, a whole bunch of feeds, all that kind of stuff gets messed up if you start messing around with bigger sites. And so this is kinda like a a return to just a simple, quick, and easy show, I guess.

But it's, yeah, harder because I'm I don't have anybody to fill in the space, the the empty airspace. So, that's what the show is. That's what where it came from. And, my thought today is something that I was thinking about the other day is just with podcasting in general, as it's this you know, it's still relatively new. It's been around obviously for quite a while now, but it still is a relatively new medium to to create in.

And, and it's kind of like a, often it can be used in place of a medium that was previously fairly popular, which is blogging and and writing and setting up a website and writing a blog. And now more and more people, instead of doing that, they'll they'll use Twitter maybe for their writing form, writing out thoughts in, you know, in 140 characters or less. But then they'll use a podcast for longer form discussion and and what what have you. So, I'm just curious. I I don't I've been thinking about this, and it's certainly easier in theory to, just turn on the mic or turn on the, software, the GarageBand, the Logic, whatever you use.

Hit record and just, like I said, verbal diarrhea dump from your brain into the into the, recording software and then hit publish. Export and publish it, without having to sort of make sure you're spelling words correctly, make sure you're even using proper grammar, make sure the thoughts even make sense, assuming you publish and, you know, in this case, like this episode, assuming I actually published this somewhere. And whereas blogging, you know, it it does it it allows for editing and running it past people a little easier and corrections and a bit more refining of the thoughts that you have and typically writing them out. For me anyways, if I write it out write out a blog post, I'll realize maybe this idea isn't that great. And and maybe, again, podcasting, can use similar, process, I guess, where by the end of this show, I could possibly think that it's not really that great and I shouldn't be publishing this.

So we'll see. If you hear this, then I've made that decision. You can judge it for yourself, obviously. So, like but for example, you know, someone like a John Gruber, let's say, at daring fireball dot net, and, you you know, pick your example from your own Internet circles. But he he's a writer, blogger.

That's what sort of got him his, audience and his prominence, certainly. And then he added a podcast to his sort of, publishing empire, if you will, initially over at five by five. Now it's done through Mule Radio. But either way, it's basically, it's daring fireballs, as he said, daring fireballs audio commentary in the same way like a d DVD has audio commentary from a director. But does he blog less because he fleshes out some ideas or, I don't know if it's flush like, guess that's the two arguments.

He's flushing out ideas on the podcast maybe in audio form that then he goes and writes more about because he's inspired by the conversation he has. Or does he have the conversation with whoever, you know, guest, Marco Arment or whoever, have that discussion and then doesn't feel a need to blog it out and sort of get it out of his head in the same way that he used to because he has the podcast medium to, get that out into the world. And I'm not saying this is a one or the other. It's not like we can't have both and that because nor am I saying that because he's podcasting, the world is suffering in his writing and, you know, woe is us or whatever. But just whenever there's a new medium, a new thing, especially with technology, we are very reluctant to, as as a society anyways, and especially those of us involved in tech, very reluctant to look at the drawbacks of this new thing.

We just kinda grab on to the positive and the the flashy and the new. And and as a podcaster, I just feel like sometimes maybe just stepping back and questioning that. But by the same token, it's what I'm doing here. Like, I had I had recorded an audio thought, an idea just in using, on my iPhone, the voice memo app, and just using that to record as I was just driving down this this thought of like, what's the drawbacks of podcasting versus blogging. And and so rather than I was initially thinking I'd blog it, but then I thought, well, that might be an interesting topic for this podcast thing that I'm trying to do, and so here we are.

So I'm curious what your thoughts are. Leave a comment on the site if you like. Hit me up on Twitter. I Chris is my Twitter handle. There'll also be a newsletter that I'll do as part of this.

Or I am already doing a newsletter sort of for podcasters. I think I might incorporate it with this. I'm not sure. We're still flushing it out. We being me.

So, you've this is episode one of the podcast with Chris Enns. Thank you for listening. I'm trying to stick to my ten minute window. I don't know how long my outro text here will be. So as of right now, it's around nine minutes, less than a minute going to go.

You could find me, like I said, on Twitter. I Chris on Twitter, p d c s t dot c a slash one is where you'd find this episode. And, I invite you to subscribe. Hopefully, it gets into the iTunes podcast listing service soon, assuming I publish this. And, thank you for listening.

Have a great day.