I purchased a microphone stand last night, to aid my recordings for cookiecast.org. I'd been told before to stand up when recording, and was reminded again when I read the same advice on Podcast Pedant:
Want a fast, cheap, probably obvious trick for noticeably improving your podcast voice? Stand up when you talk. It’s well known that standing straightens the air passages and gives you a lot more power.
So now that I have (what I think is) a decent setup for recording, I feel like I ought to do more of them! I'm not yet ready for anything long, as I'm still learning, but I'd like to try something of moderate length for the challenge and experience. I keep eyeing Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad -- it's long been one of my favorite stories; though I now note with dismay that it already exists at LibriVox.
So what short works do you suggest? Public domain or CreativeCommons licensed works only, please.
Yes, but your recording of Heart of Darkness would surely be enormously better.
Ooh! You could do Lord Jim!
I have no suggestions for recording script material (...er...), but I have been meaning to mention to you that I set up my mom's Tivo broadband adapter the other day, and one of the new features it enables is podcasts. I set up Cookiecast as one of the podcasts on her Tivo. I was amused that it was even possible, and figured you might like to know that your potential cookiecast.org audience extends to every broadband Tivo user.
Also related to cookiecast, I found this amusing:
http://ryanduff.net/archives/2006/05/03/fortune/
Plato's Republic.
Your podcast could be a cheap imitation of an imitation of the Form of Podcast. As an artist, you should be banned.