TPAN featured on Mevio
I started my audio podcast, The Podshow About Nothing (a.k.a. TPAN), in 2006. I listened to lots of other audio podcasts back then, and they inspired me to start my own. Back then I didn’t have any niche topics to discuss, so the show is basically just an audio blog with fairly high production value (I add chapters (it’s only available as .m4a files), sound effects (sometimes), and all kinds of independent music).
The last episode I recorded with Leah Noreman in New York while I was there in July, 2008. Due to my traveling that year (yeah, lame excuse, I know) I didn’t end up getting that hour-long episode edited and published online until November 2008.
It’s been over a year and a half since that episode has been online. Other work and projects have hindered my ability to work on producing episodes over that time period. Yeah, I know, another lame excuse.
Surprisingly, people (not just my close friends and family) really do love the show. I even made a few hundred bucks from sponsors (GoDaddy and such) when I did the show.
*Ponders: I really have to record another episode soon.*
Anywho, last night I saw a tweet from Corey Harris (host of TechHijack) that stated I was featured on Mevio’s (the network I host TPAN on) front page. Baffled, I looked a the screenshot included in Corey’s tweet, and sure enough there was TPAN’s logo under the featured section. Fancy that!
I can only conclude that Mevio uses an automated featuring tool rather than a person/employee curating the featured list. In contrast, at Viddler I carefully pick each featured video and Community Spotlight by watching the video, and discovering more about the creator, and so on. If you’d ever like your video featured on Viddler, then give me a tinkle.
I’m writing this post because a few people were wondering how I got featured on Mevio. Yup, it was nothing special. All I did was have a show on the network. I’m still chuckling about it.
