Time to try something new – how about podcasting?

This old blogging malarkey is getting a bit old hat isn’t it? Well, according to some (many?) people, podcasting is the new blogging (or so I hear on the grapevine, hanging around the water cooler and / or when grafting down at the old rumour mill)!

Well, I’m not sure I quite believe it, but either way I am a massive fan of podcasts and have steadily increased my consumption now to the point where I am subscribed to almost twenty! There is huge value in being able to spend the many hours per week commuting or doing other mundane tasks, simultaneously learning and frankly passing the time a lot quicker for it!

As such, when an innocent twitter conversation late one evening with some of the chaps from the London VMUG and Open Homelab, led to a suggestion that we should have a go at creating some vocal content! Well, one thing led to another, and we have subsequently given birth to a disturbing looking love child!

The idea of the show is pretty simple; it spun out from the Open Homelab project as we all like to have a great gab about labs and studying. This is the subject that forms the molten core of the show, with a different key subject for each (hopefully monthly if we pull finger) episode. Around this we will wrap a mantle of other interesting bits and bobs (content TBC but perhaps stretching to the business of IT and one or two discussions on key news items of interest!), Finally surrounded by a hard crust of technical and ‘humerical’ linguistics, or indeed whatever else comes out of the minds of myself or co-hosts, Gareth Edwards, Kev Johnson and Amit Panchal!

As such, you can find the virginal fruit of our labours linked below:

Open TechCast – Ep.1:- The NEW beginning…

We massively appreciate any and all constructive feedback, so please fire us a message on Twitter with any comments, give our new Open TechCast Twitter account a follow, or if you have time, you could even leave us a wee review on iTunes or Stitcher!

Finally, thanks very much to Gareth and Kev who have done the vast majority of the organising for the cast so far! 🙂