there you go, jp. you got fans.

Is it really necessary to do a Podcast weekly?

(Maybe twice a month might be more expedient).

That way you have more time to focus on your own private life.

Also,there might not be such a clamoring from contributors/commentors for a mention …(blah..blah).

*just a passing thought*.

Yeah. T-shirt photos do not come across well in an audio format.

I am considering various different things for the podcast.

Before I got started, I listened to The Daily Source Code with Adam Curry, the so-called Podfather. At the time that guy was doing an hour a day. I thought (rather stupidly it turned out), that and hour a week should not be that much of a problem.

I eventually came to find out about the “Rule of 6,” which says something like, “multiply the length of your podcast by six to find out how much time it will take for you to produce it.”

I would say that’s about right. A one-hour podcast takes about six hours to produce, if everything goes well. If you run into trouble along the way, that can easily balloon into eight or even 10 hours. Just uploading the finished file to the server takes 30 minutes or more.

In addition to keeping me away from doing my Japundit duties and real life work, some people around me who shall remain unnamed (but whose initials are Mrs. JP) have urged me to give it up all together. But I really don’t want to do that.

OK. How ’bout this for some razzamatazz: after doing some calculations, aside from the pilot podcast and this last one, the average time per podcast is about 38:30 minutes.

So, I guess if the podcast average is about 64.4%-ish of 6 hours per 1 hour podcast production, then each podcast requires, roughly, 3 hours and 50 seconds to produce.

What does this mean? Um… honestly? bupkiss.

If, say, 50% of that theoretical 6-hour span is getting *any* sized podcast up and out onto the ethernet, then it’s going to take three hours, in theory, for the rest of the production and research stuff. But let’s take, say, seven minutes off the average for music, and that bumps the average down to 31:30 minutes per podcast of actual talk and discussion. So, we have three hours of actual production and (3 hours/0.5-ish) = 31:30 for research and stuff. Which comes out to 4.5 actual hours to produce and get up a 38:30 podcast a week (since we’ll toss back in those minutes of marvelous music). Which means… bupkiss.

But if it’s going to take about three-ish hours to put together Jindiecast001 anyway (using your own formula), then why not just enwrap it back into JapanTalk and save yourself some time?

And what does this mean? Bupkiss.

Because I *know* it’s your baby and you can do anything you want to do with your shows.

I’ll just miss the free-flow-y things that can happen in a longer format.

Screw it - I don’t suppose coercion would put my theory across any better?

Ack. ‘Pi-pi-pi-pi-pizza-la-kun-to-to-to-to-toppings’ my way back to sanity… .

I haven’t heard this on other podcasts, and there may be a reason for that, but could you accept submissions for the podcast like you do for the site? People could record their own tidbits and mail or skype or something them to you, and you could patch them all together. Then again, that may be harder than doing it all yourself…

moderately competent number crunching Betty Woo.. but still no where near solving JP’s time input/ product output problem.

Mrs JP, appears to be having doubts - (not that I imagine you give a toss).