Talkshoe.com, and again my blood screaming to motivate me: go podcast again! Well, I did two short podcast a while ago. Dunno why I forgot to record more.

I lies :p. I actually has some topics I can record, but I was to shy to show you my voice . Or simply, Jakarta isn’t condusive enough to (force me) podcasting. Well, that’s a stupid reason I must change soon. But let it be my issue. Let’s talk something interesting, why podcast and why didn’t people start it here in Indonesia.

The minority of podcaster itself is a sign. Podcasting haven’t been tested yet. Nobody knows the actual verdict of how success can a podcaster be. It may just waiting the next celebrity-candidate to bring it to the glamour stage. Could it be you?

Podcast is portable. Podcast is repeatable. Podcast has some distinct characteristic compared to regular online/offline text. Podcast is more personal as you can really feel the authoor through his/her voice. Podcast is intimate as the author can whisper directly to your ear. Podcast is more controllable than reguler text as audience need no more to imagine how the author would pronounce his/her story.

Then why there’s a few or even now regular podcaster in Indonesia?

As usual, bandwidth is the first class suspect. Podcast tends to consume more bytes than text. A merely short podcast can take a few MB already. And for some people, a few MB is even not worth waiting.

Second suspect? Lazyness, as you can read in my early paragraf. I think this one is somewhat similar to blogging.

Third suspect? People really doesn’t feel like podcast is appropriate for publishing. Either it’s simply not effective or technically too challenging.

Now, do you feel like invading this no-man-land of podcasting? Do you want to be the king? I repeat, do YOU want to be the king?!