31 posts tagged “podcast”

I have the StumbleUpon toolbar installed on Firefox. StumbleUpon is basically a button you click to randomly browse within certain categories or channels you have specified. Well, I just discovered that you can specify a search term, and then StumbleUpon takes you only to sites relevant to that term! I'm stumbling across podcasts I've never heard about, just by using the term "podcast."

There is so much content in the Digital Expanse that you often do not know what is out there. StumbleUpon gives you random pages in the categories you choose, but the pages have been chosen and reviewed by StumbleUpon users. It is a really cool way to browse the Web, a neat combination of randomization and community.

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Shane Shennan

On this episode, I read a poem by Basil Sands, a writer from Alaska. I play a song called Threads by This Will Destroy You. I also read one of my stranger poems, about a guy who throws burs at babies.

Check out yonderman.com for links and previous episodes.

Thanks to every person who contributed to the show through Yondercast's Facebook group!

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Shane Shennan

Matty and I went on a man-type adventure in the Summer of 2007. Here is the audio . . .

Much of my motivation in life has been to get positive attention. Whether telling a joke as a kid or podcasting as an adult, much of my motivation has been to hear people say, "Look what Shane's doing. What a great guy!"

I don't like this about myself. I should look to God for validation. John 7:38 talks about rivers of living water flowing out of one's heart. My motivation and power should come from the inside, via the Holy Spirit, instead of from th outside. When I look to other people for praise, it is never enough.

My primary reason for starting my podcast was to promote myself and my creative writing. Nothing wrong with that, but now I want Yondercast to be about more than myself. Instead of using the podcast to pull attention toward myself, I want the podcast to have internal power. I want those rivers of living water to flow out of the podcast.

This episode is about tough boots, old vans, moonlit graves and stuff torn down. Intrigued?

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Shane Shennan

My Dad and I were talking about podcasting yesterday. He's going to record a Life Works episode sometime about how communities have shifted from location-based communities (villages) to web-based communities (social media). He came up with the idea that a podcast is like an island. Each podcast-island has its own small community and that community builds bridges to other podcast-islands.

When I was a kid, whenever I made up a joke, Dad would tell me to write it down. Now, whenever he has an idea that I think will make a good Life Works episode, I tell him to write it down. :)

Here is a list of podcasts and the bridges I am building:

• Yondercast (Mine, all mine! Mauhahaha!)
  
• Life Works (I produce it.)
  
• Inspiration Ignition (Coming soon, I'll be producing it)
  
• Canadian Podcast Buffet (Mark and Bob played my promo!)
• Sundown Lounge (Larry Winfield played my promo!)
  
• DFEMBE's Podcast (David Bailey MBE interviewed me!)
  
• SpudCast (I want to build a bridge here because this show resonates with me.)

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What is the sweetest word in the English language? Your name! And your name sounds only sweeter when there is a preamble, a nifty title in front of it.

For instance, the proper way to say my name is "That podcasting genius, that poet of the people, that most handsome dude . . . Shane Shennan!"

Post your cool title/preamble here, and I'll mention it on a future episode of Yondercast.

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I've just posted the 11th episode of my audio show!

I've been quite busy with school and life, so it felt really good to create an episode again. Check it out (as well as past episodes) at http://feeds.feedburner.com/yondercast.

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"Developing a style nobody can deal with--a style that cannot be easily understood or erased, a style that has the reflexivity to create counterdominant narratives against a mobile and shifting enemy--may be one of the most effective ways to fortify communities of resistance and simultaneously reserve the right to communal pleasure."

That quote is from an article I had to read for my pop culture course. The article is "A Style Nobody Can Deal With" by Tricia Rose. It is about the development of hip hop culture. The quote is interesting to me because it has potential applications to the wide world of podcasting.

My sister and I talked recently about the negative side of postmodern media. The conversation came out of listening to a sermon/lecture by Ravi Zacharias about postmodernism. Ravi seems to think that all modern media is the same, rooted in selfishness and solipsism. If that is what he means, I disagree, because I see podcasting and other forms of do-it-yourself media as opportunities to respond to the negative aspects of big media.

Podcasting can be a way to short-circuit people's expectations and open them up to new ways of "reading" media. People often expect pablum, because that is what is often given to them by the media giants. Podcasts such as Frank Key's Hooting Yard on the Air and my Yondercast could certainly be thought of as podcasts nobody can deal with. Both podcasts are centered around unusual, quirky stories. Both podcasts expect the listeners to work a little to find pleasure in the stories.

If you were a good friend of mine, and you hung out at my house all the time, I wouldn't dish up ice cream for you. You know where the spoons and bowls are, and you can choose the ice cream you want from my freezer. You're getting it for free; dish up your own ice cream! I will wear myself buying ice cream for my freezer, and I will talk for hours about ice cream with you. But I'm not dishing it up for you.