I recently reviewed The Future of American Podcasts by Jason Boley and made some suggestions along the lines of copy-editing. I focused on how language and pacing could be used to more effectively engage his audience.
The changes I suggested should make the podcast better maintain a listeners interest. When dealing with a technical subject in an audio format any lapse in attention can cause the audience to miss an essential piece of information and become completely lost. Speeding up and varying the pacing can help audience engagement as can wording choices. Brief and precise wording helps convey essential information.
I was impressed with how the interviewees in this podcast were established as interesting characters. I found myself far more likely to care about what they said because of that. I'll try to incorporate that kind of personality in my podcast in some way (I'll have to do it differently than this as interviews are nearly so important a piece of my podcast).
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