Cephalopodcast

Well, the Cephalopodcast is one year old today. It was actually back in July/August 2005 that I woke up with the name “cephalopodcast” rolling around in my brain. Fortunately, podcasting was still new enough that no one else had registered the domain yet. I was also thinking of calling it the SquinkLink, but fortunately my wife nixed that idea.

I suppose it’s close enough to the New Year for me to make some predictions too. I am finally starting to read up on how to roll my own Wordpress templates. Expect more customization and design of the Cephalopodcast blog in the coming year. I am also playing around with Drupal and might switch over to that CMS in the future.

I started this blog/podcast mostly as a learning exercise. Now that the curve has leveled off, expect more actual content next year (certainly more than four podcasts, geesh!). There are a number of local and national marine science figures and organizations I hope to communicate with soon. And now that I have the TuneTalk, I can be a bit more spontaneous and mobile with recoding as well. Plus my buddy Stephen will be back in town. If that doesn’t lead to some improvement in production, I don’t know what will. The dude’s clever like that (nudge, nudge). Assuming he makes it safely back from San Francisco via the Panama Canal.

I have been experimenting with live productions with the help of these fine folks. I expect that will continue in the future. I hope to add some video to the mix too.

There is the TONMOCON II in June to look forward to. Lots of cephalopody goodness there.

In the bigger picture, I agree with some sentiments voiced by Leo Laporte. The shine is off podcasting. All the early adopters have adopted. All the secondary adopters have contracted with the early adopters for support and services. If there is any rush at all in the coming year, it will be when Microsoft finally adds podcast support to Windows Media Player.

So if you have any predictions for the next year, or ideas for future podcasts, let me know. Email pulpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com or leave a comment. Thanks!