Hi Tom and all
I do agree with what you said. I believe a podcast would be a good
enhancement to say a written review of a given game. Addressing the
idea of storage space needed I don't know how much the cost would
increase for the webisite, but an alternative could be sendspace. The
reason I mention this obviously is that it's optionally a free service,
or similarly Dropbox.
I'm not sure how difficult HTML coding would be to learn however with
some determination writing the magazine with headers and such would make
a decent change from the current +'s used in the current format.
As for submissions of podcast there would need to be some sort of
standards in things like quality of the recording, ease of understanding
what's being heard both in the game and by the reviewer and so on.
Just a couple thoughts.
Ron
On 30-Oct-2013 12:51 AM, Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi Steven and all,
I realize that probably a good many of you are in favor of some kind
of a podcast. I'm not totally against the idea, but I foresee problems
with it. For one thing a podcast would require extra server bandwidth,
more storage space, and that would incur greater cost to keep the site
up and running. Therefore in order to do this we would have to take
donations on a regular basis to pay for the cost of operating the site
and so forth. Another is technical quality from podcast to podcast.
Now, I know this varies from person to person but I expect people who
record podcasts to have fairly decent recording equipment so it is
easy to clean up, edit, and post to the site. If I were the one
reviewing podcast submissions and it were recorded on a $15 microphone
with too much static or background noise I'd probably turn the
submission down on the grounds it doesn't meet quality standards.
Finally, not everyone can record a podcast. I myself have difficulties
with my Jaw, making speaking very difficult, therefore I prefer to
write what I have to say than try and speak clearly into a microphone.
Obviously, that particular problem would not effect everyone, but I
foresee others having problems with recording pod casts weather it is
not having the right hardware or software, not being able to speak
clearly, or something else.
Bottom line, what I personally think is the best answer to this issue
is to have both. We can still keep the magazine, update it a bit, turn
it into a full online webzine or e-zine with articles, reviews,
stories, and so forth. If people are determined to have a podcast
perhaps we can try that as well, but it would be in addition to the
magazine and would not be a replacement for it.
Cheers!
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