On March 21, 2005, the first edition of The Word Nerds went onto the Internet. With that my personal journey into the world of podcasting began. It’s been a great two years. Thousands of people know who I am, more or less, because of that podcast. It has succeeded far beyond my wildest expectations.
The first edition (my partners Howard Chang and Howard Shepherd and I decided to call our shows “editions” rather than “episodes,” since we weren’t telling stories) was just a simple five-minute speech-only monolog. I was recording directly into my iBook’s internal microphone, primarily to learn how to use the Audacity recording software. When it was over, I decided the edition was good enough to keep. It is still the first show in our podcast feed. Continue reading ‘Two years ago today’