Broadcasts from the Ninveah - Coming Back

I know the podcast has suffered from podfade this spring with only one episode since late March. The reality is that I wasn't even playing Eve in May so podcasting about it seemed foolish. Now that I've gotten in a couple sessions and gotten back into the swing of things, I plan to pick up the podcasting thing again.

I'll be continuing my format of ~10-15 minute 'casts where I comment on ingame events and highlight blog posts from the community.

New Podcast Artwork

Rixx Javix of Evoganda blog fame was commissioned to do some artwork for the podcast website and I put them up today.

Here's a look at the banner and channel logo.

Empty Nest

Acinom took one look at the podcast site for Broadcasts from the Ninveah and decided to kick me out of the nurturing nest that is his podcast and make me fly on my own. Since I knew that one day I wanted to become a full-fledged podcast in my own right anyways and my ramblings was not fitting smoothly into his new format with news and up to date reports, I think it was the right decision for both of us.

Except now I have to consider making the podcast more real.

There are several worrisome prospects about podcasting. I can whip out a blog post in less than 15 minutes, often less than 10. If I need to write something more concrete like last post, I can do it in small chunks of time over a few days (small chunks of time are all I have, sadly). Recording a podcast however requires more flow and momentum in my opinion; starts and stops are almost always very noticeable. Then there is the editing: I haven't bothered to do any during my 5 minute rambles but if I increase the time to longer it might behoove me to make the effort. Maybe even get an intro and outro soundtrack and work out how to include them.

And what the hell to podcast about? While some topics are by design only doable on the blog, i.e. very visual posts, and others only really work in the audio medium (like interviews or discussions),  there is a large overlap between what I can write and speak about in the two mediums. I have to be careful not to mine all my written content ideas for podcast topics and leave my written blog hanging in the wind.

Its all very nerve-wracking!

Regardless, I'm going to make a go of it. I don't know how this will evolve but nothing ventured, nothing gained, right?

I just wish I had more time!

Broadcasts from the Ninveah Episode 8

Talking about writing fiction, how I started and common mistakes.

Broadcasts from the Ninveah Lives! (Sort Of)

Jason aka Acinom over at the Reading of Eve-Online Articles podcast approached me about recording segments for his podcast and I recently set myself and schedule up to do just that. My first submissions are included in his recent episode found here and in Itunes.

Let me and Acinom know what you think as I plan to do more of these segments for his podcast going forward. If anyone has something in particular you want me to talk (blather?) about, you can contact me via email, evemail, or comment here.

Podcase Name Decided

Despite the urging from the nameless masses (or that guy down the hall), the podcast plans remain fixed for a startup in the late fall. In the meantime, after soliciting advice from the readers I've decided to go with my first instinct and call it "Broadcasts from the Ninveah". Close second was "Ninveah Offline" but I felt the longer title worked a bit better.

Next step is to download Audacity and do some tests to see how this recording process thingy actually works. And figure out where the heck these recordings are going to get hosted. And picked up. Etc, so forth, and so on. I might also see if I can find someone willing and able to mix me some short custom intro music with a sufficiently sci-fi vibe. I suppose I could use music right from Eve's jukebox but I noticed a couple Eve podcasts do that already and I don't want to be a retread.