Paul Boag

The first ever episode of the Boagworld Show!

Author:
Paul Boag
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Published:
23 August 2005
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Classic shows
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2 minutes

After trying to avoid the issue for a while now I have finally decided to practice what I preach and launch my very own podcast on web design.

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A while back, I wrote a short blog on the opportunities in podcasting and I have to say I am genuinely enthusiastic about the concept. It is certainly a technology I have adopted personally and I am subscribed to a number of podcasts on technology and science fiction.

What no web design!

It irritated me that you could find podcasts on knitting but not on web design!

The problem I found is that there seemed very little in the way of web design podcasts. In fact, after searching both Google and iTunes I found nothing dedicated to the subject. It irritated me that you could find podcasts on knitting but not on web design! I moaned about all of the web design sites I liked and complained that they were not running podcasts. This is such a perfect subject for a podcast and the majority of the audience interested in the subject would have an MP3 player. Surely somebody would do it! In the end I decided to stop my moaning, get off of my ass and do something about it.

With fear and trepidation

So, it is with great delight and absolute terror that I introduce the boagworld.com podcast. Let us just hope I do not make a complete fool of myself. In order to spread the blame for the success or failure of this cast I urge you all to email me with suggestions for it. What should the podcast cover, how long should it be, how often do you want it? Any thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated.

Although I have worked in web design for over 10 years now I am still making it up as I go along and hate to be referred to as an expert. There are many people much more knowledgeable than I on the subject and so any help would be much appreciated.

Anyway to business:

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