Podcasting.

One of my very first jobs (in 1982!) was as a control room operator and sometimes announcer at (Ted Baxter voice here) "a little 50,000 watt station in Cleveland". Well, in my case Halifax, but you get the idea. I was 18 years old, and had no business being in front of the open end of a microphone, but there I was. I had a riot and it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for a kid from Dartmouth, but decades later I can still think of one or two on-air "incidents" that make me twinge.

Fast forward twenty-six years later. I was approached by a non-profit organization of which I'm a member to resurrect their long defunct "podcast". I decided to undertake a little bit of due diligence, and soon was consumed by the opportunities available through podcasting. It's just like radio, but with no news directors or program directors to tell you what to do ...

So, if you've been at all wondering where I've been in the past couple of months, it's been buried in books on radio journalism and audio production. (Did you realize they don't use reel-to-reel tape and edit with razor blades any more?)

My first effort is available at www.mannequinpodcast.com - subsequent efforts will be much better, both from a content and production standpoint, I promise!