Carnival of the Capitalist Podcasting
I had a great idea: My own podcast. Each week I’d read each entry from the Carnival of the Capitalists and record for all the world to hear. I got everything together: I made the XML feed, set up a space on my server to host my mp3 files, and even created a cool webpage for it. This afternoon, I began reading the posts, editing them with Audacity, and getting them to an acceptable level of quality, largely by eliminating the places where I tripped over my own words. Four entries in, I look at the clock: An hour and twenty minutes has passed by. There are more than 30 entries in this weeks Carnival. At this rate, it will take me something like 39 hours to read and edit every entry.
No. Unless I can figure out a way to get a full-time salary out of this thing, there’s no way I can afford to spend 39 hours a week on the idea. No. No.
But, here’s an idea: If everyone posting to the Carnival of the Capitalists would record an mp3 of themselves reading their posts, then one person could assemble them all into a single podcast. It’s really easy to set one up using Feedburner. In fact, I’d be willing to set up the feed myself; I’ll have to email Jay Solo, who apparently keeps track of the CotC’s hosts and gets the entries, about getting this idea together.