Something to say.

My first hurdle with podcasting:

I've got a few podcasts almost done. I just need to put the finishing touches on them.
For someone who'd never done podcasting before, it was the small elements that added to the frustration of it all.

The first one was:
Something to say.
There's some very specific podcasts and blogs out there. Like entire podcasts about Food or Transformers or Comic Books.
I'd even say if you're someone like Jeff Jarvis, even though you write about anything and everything, it's still pretty specific because you've already made a name for yourself, so it's specific in that it's about the codified and name-brand version of 'You'.

That left me puzzling. What do I have to say?
Friends have called me opinionated. Ranty, even. But I think part of that comes with the fact that I'm interested in far too many things. My rants are merely what comes out of me when I encounter a situation that I have no frame of reference to. If I were mechanically inclined (I'm not), that would be my form of dismantalling something to see how it works.

In any case, what to write about? Well, I figured I'd write about my situation. Because it's the thing I can talk with the most authority about.

Being a Grad student in Educational Technology. Oh, and being broke.

First hurdle accomplished. Even though there's tons of things out there I think I'd like, I have to decide on something.

So, if you're trying to decide on a podcast, hopefully you can do better than I did. Maybe you live in Mayberry and you're the town's expert on geology, then you can fill reams and reams of paper with your insights on that.
I'm not so lucky.

I'm a grad student in a college town, which means I'm a fish swimming in a sea of fishes. That's me.