Announcing: Podcasts!

I have a large body of shorter work that lends itself well to seven to ten minute podcasts.  Unfortunately for me, I am cursed with a nasal, tenor voice that just misses being unpleasant.  Kate, the long-time contributor on the site, has done professional voice-over work in the past and has volunteered to lend her considerable vocal talents to this enterprise.  Mixing dramatic reading with tasteful music choices, she makes the work I’ve done with the written word an order of magnitude better. 

I’ll be releasing one podcast per week on a trial basis to determine first of all if there is interest, and second of all, if my hosting costs are going to increase.  Based on the feedback I get from everyone that reads the site, I’ll choose the next step in this blog’s evolution.  (Subscriber-based podcasts are not out of the question.)

I’ve added a syndication tab to the upper right of the sidebar.  If you haven’t already subscribed to the RSS feed that this site generates, please do so in the blog/news reader of your choice.  I’ve tried to include support for the major ones, so if you use a reader that is not available in the pulldown menu, let me know and I’ll see if I can add it.

I can’t say enough how thankful I am for the loyal readership that I have.  I broke 100,000 hits in the month of March (104,255); I had nearly 60,000 hits in the month of April, and my unique page views continue to climb.  Your feedback is a continued measure of my success, so I’ll ask you to keep sending emails with comments, questions, and insults (yes, you can call me an idiot when you don’t agree with me).