[ubuntu-florida] Podcasting

[Mike Feravolo]

Hello All:

I was sitting in on the meeting last night, and didn't want to break the 
flow of your ideas. Of all the things suggested I think that podcast is 
the most realistic project for members of the group.

If your objective is to reach people that are not already using Linux or 
Ubuntu and convert them you are going to have to do something that they 
going to want to watch. I am not going to get into what they aren't 
going to watch, since there are many examples out there right now of that.

Forget Audio clips because the Internet is a visual medium and nobody 
wants to hear someone's jive about some computer software and writing a 
radio jingle for Linux might get a few laughs, but isn't going to get 
any Windows user switch to use Linux.

If you want to get anyone to watch the video on Linux, you are going to 
have to look at how news is presented on television. Which why there is 
an old saying broadcasting "You have a face for radio". If you have been 
around Orlando and heard about Shannon Burke and seen what he looks like 
on the news story about him shooting his wife and dog. You will see a 
fine example of that.

So you are going to need someone that looks like a T.V anchor for the 
podcast or it's going nowhere fast. Unless you look at another fine 
example of marketing the "e-insurance" cartoon. They use the girl with 
pink hair to tell you about insurance, during an adventure sequence that 
is right out of the silent movie era and 1930's - 1950's cartoons.

I like the cartoon idea if anyone (not me) in our group has the skills 
and the equipment to make it fly.

Peace

Mike Feravolo