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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is episode six of my Digital Life show for
June twenty fifth, twenty thirteen. I'm Rob Greenley and thank
you for downloading or just clicking play from my website
from all over the world. My focus this week is
YouTube content, good video podcast content? Or are we seeing
the youtubeization of video podcasting? Is this a good or
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bad trend? Or is it all good? I'll get into
that later in the show. The other topic this week
is the birth of an animal pet podcasting star is
happening this week and I will dive into that as well.
And the other last two things. I'm going to follow
up on my backyard aquaponics project as I go back
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into the greenhouse for a report later in the show.
And lastly we'll hear some show comments from Sean and
Jim So. I can be reached at Rob at Rob
Greenley dot com or on Twitter at Rob Greenley. We're
in iTunes, the Windows Phone podcast Area, and Stitcher the
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show can be found, and I also manage the podcasts
content area for a Windows Phone and Zoom at Microsoft.
And if you have a podcast and you'd like to
get that added to the catalog, please send me an
email to Podcasts and that's with an s at Microsoft
dot com. Well, let's dive into the topics that I
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have for this week. We are seeing the birth of
an animal pet podcasting superstar. That's happening. The launch of
a Little Bub show series from Revision three in Discovery
was launched this past week. The first episode was only
about a minute and forty four seconds long, but it
was definitely awe inspiring. There's no question about it. You
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should definitely go check it out. The name of the
show is Lil Bub and that's l Il Space Bub.
It's basically a Catually, it's had some great success on YouTube.
And what Revision III decided to do since this cat
is so cute and cuddly and has an army of
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loyal fans, that they figured they would create a show
on their network that focused on the life of this cat.
And I guess this cat won the Best Cat on
the Internet award. I guess it was through some friskies
or a whiskas contest online. I guess the first version
of this show, it was basically like a preview episode.
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It wasn't even a full show. Garnered about two hundred
and twelve thousand views and four days on YouTube, and
his page on YouTube already has thirty four thousand followers.
This cat is a little unusual. I guess it has
quite a few birth defects. I mean, you should definitely
go to the about this cat and read up. He
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has shorter than normal legs and kind of a shorter
jaw than what's normal, and he's just kind of like
a very tiny cat that looks really really cute and
has his tongue is always sticking out. So anyway, I
think this is kind of a unique moment in the
podcast area, and I just wanted to let you all
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know about it because it definitely got my attention when
I watched this first episode. We may be seeing the
birth of an animal pet podcasting superstar here, so definitely
go check it out. Then, I also wanted to do
a follow up update on my episode one of this show.
My aquaponic system is up and fully operational, and I
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wanted to give a little greenhouse report from in the
greenhouse of the status of this It won't be too long,
but I just wanted to give you an update from
inside the greenhouse. So let's go ahead and play that
well as you can hear. That is the sound of
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bubbling water and flowing water. And I have the aquaponics
system that is set up in my backyard up and operational,
and things are happening, and I do have some produce
starting to grow in here. But over the last week
I was able to get water into the system and
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get it up and running. I actually gave a report
a couple of weeks ago on the status of the
aquaponic system in my backyard and just wanted to do
a follow up with it. Actually, I'm standing inside of
the greenhouse right now, and things are flowing. I have
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two what's called media grow beds, which are comprised of
basically little pummus shaped balls, and the water just flows
through those rips down into what's called deep water culture
raft beds, which are basically two So I have two
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media grow beds that are about three feet long, each
one of them by maybe almost two feet wide. And
then I have a fish tank that sits underneath those
grow beds that's about five feet long by about three
feet tall, and that's where the fish actually live and
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they poop and do their thing and live their lives
inside of that tank and create fertilizer or the complete
system that will grow lettuces and tomatoes and whatever we
want to grow in here. It's basically a dirtless a
dirt less growing system that just uses flowing water and
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waste that's generated by fish. It's a complete natural process.
And so the water runs up into these media grow
beds that sits on top of the fish tank, and
water flows through those and falls down into these what's
called these deep water rafts, which I started to mention there.
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They're basically long, basically tanks that are about a foot tall.
They're about five feet long by a foot tall, and
they have like a piece of foam that actually sits
on top with holes grilled in the foam, and that's
where the plants grow and their roots just dangle into
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the water. So the water provides all of the nutrients
and oxygen that the plant needs to grow and thrive.
And it's actually a system that will grow produce a
lot faster than growing in dirt because it gives the
plant all the nutrients that it needs to thrive. And
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it's inside of a greenhouse. I have, you know, fairly
controlled temperature. It's warmer in here, it's protected from the elements,
and I'll actually post a photograph of this system as
part of this blog post and this podcast, so you
can actually see what it looks like. Actually, I'll probably
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even try and get up a video as well so
you can actually see how it works as well. But
it's actually pretty neat. I have grill lights that are above,
and I also have a fish tank heater that keeps
the temperature of the fish tank at a fairly constant temperature,
though it's summertime in the Northwest and it can get
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a little warm up here. But I just wanted to
give a little report from inside of the greenhouse again,
an update, and I appreciate you listening to my podcast.
So I'm going to go out with the sound of water. Well,
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it's always fun to take this show out into the
real world and hear the sounds of the real world
life out there. And it's always soothing to hear the
sound of flowing water and bubbling things. So the acoponic
system is in the process of cycling. From a biology perspective,
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I'm basically doing a what's called a fishless cycling of
the biofiltration in the system, so I can add fish
later and not have a possibility of killing off any
fish in the cycling process. Basically, every aquarium or tank
that you have, you know that you would buy or
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have fish in, has to go through this process. And
this is just on a much bigger scale. I've got
probably three or four hundred gallons of water in this
whole system, so it takes a little bit of a
process to go through. And I'm going through and doing
water tests and testing the chemistry of the water. And
then we're also in the process of trying to figure
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out what plants we want to grow in the in
the acaponic system. We're leaning towards pretty much starting out
with like a romine and fancy lettuces and things like that,
but we may branch out and get into egg plant
and do other types of things. And I'll definitely bring
a quick update to that here, and I also I'll
post a video to my blog of the visual portion
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of a tour. My next concern with the acoponic system
is my tank water levels and having a pump shut
off system, so if I ever have a pump failure
or a water overflow situation that the system will automatically
shut down. I don't currently have that right now. And
then also I wanted to add sometional kind of insulation
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in the greenhouse for the winter up here in the Northwest,
it gets a little cold. So and definitely go look
for my video tour that I'll post on my website
at Rob Greenley dot com. So definitely check that out
if you have an interest in a backyard aquaponics system,
which is cool but pretty complex to actually deploy in
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the real world. So let's dive into my main topic
of this week, and it really does get back to
this topic with a little bubb and is a YouTube
video series going to be successful as a podcast? And
I think it is an interesting question. It's one that
I've posed before and it really, I guess maybe gets
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back to and this bigger discussion about podcasting is just
another form of distribution for any kind of media, right,
So if you create a show, it can be a
minute long, or two minutes long, or five minutes long,
or an hour and a half long, like my last
week's podcast episode was an hour and a half long.
I think that there's different expectations in the YouTube area
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versus video podcasting, or at least it has been in
the past, and we may be seeing kind of a
transition happening right now, though I do have to say
that on the video podcasting side, short form videos have
been around for a long time in the video podcasting area,
but I do think that the video podcast side has
tended to, at least from the past anyway, has tended
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towards being a little bit more TV like, a little
longer form content. It caters to a little bit older
audience than what you typically see on YouTube from a
a serialized show type of thing, which tends to be
a lot shorter. It tends to be, you know, a
person that's sitting in front of a webcam and just
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talking to their audience and doing that kind of thing,
where video podcasts have tended to be more TV like content,
a little bit longer form. So I think you have
this view that a Revision III is looking at this
a little bub series as being you know, we're making
it really for YouTube, because that's the YouTube consumption paradigm,
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is short form personality driven content, and they're just putting
it out as a video podcast to build on that success.
I guess that may not be entirely the case, So
that that's the impression that I'm getting, is that the
programming that I'm seeing from video podcasters out there are
tending to cater a little more to the YouTube distribution.
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But I think that this podcast and many others that
are being put out by kind of just content creators,
can be successful in both areas. But I think that
keeping it short, like a minute and a half, maybe
too short for success in the video podcast area. I
just think that the expectation is that the viewers want
a little more value for the commitment that they have
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to make to get a video podcast, as opposed to YouTube,
where it really doesn't take a lot of commitment to
consume content. On YouTube, you just click a play button.
Or we're on the video podcasting side, you typically have
you know, you subscribe and you it's a little more
difficult to find the content and that kind of stuff.
The target audiences for I wanted to draw a little
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bit more of a demographic kind of profile here. The
video podcast audiences tend to skew towards thirty plus around age.
The YouTube tends to be less than thirty, and I
do think that that drives some expectations, though I think
depending on the content, it can certainly appeal to a
very wide range of ages, though I think I have
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to couch this by saying that video podcasts are being
consumed more and more on mobile devices, which tends to
be a little shorter form content, so you know, it
may be okay for short form YouTube type content to
make it over to video podcasting as another distribution method
for those shows. So I think that it's very possible
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for those shows to be success full in both size.
Though I do think that podcasts just in general is
a domain that's starting to really be dominated by audio
and on demand radio, and I think that will be
the type of content that will continue and flourish in
the podcast area, where a video side will always be
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kind of a sideline player. One other kind of twist
of this too is c net TV has a show
called It's The Always On Show with Molly Wood. This
started out as a video podcast and a streaming show
on c Net's website, but if you go watch it now,
it's trying to become a real TV show. It has
basically breaks that are perfect for the insertion of TV
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like ads, and I think it definitely mirrors the production
model of a regular broadcast TV show, which may be
where they're trying to go with that show, and it
may wind up on a CBS affiliate or something like that,
or on Saturdays or something here down the line. So
that's a wrap on my main topic for the show.
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This week, it's going to be a little bit shorter
show than what we've had the last couple of weeks
because I had conversations with other folks on the show.
That's not going to be the case this week. But
next week, I definitely want to dive a little deeper
into the global podcasting topic and we'll be hopefully speaking
with some other folks overseas, you know, about those trends
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what I'm seeing there to dive a little deeper into
that topic. So let's move on to talk about the
comments that I got from last week's show. Didn't get
a lot of comments about last week's show, and I
think we're kind of at the beginning of that topic
discussion out there. But I did get a comment from Sean,
who is associated with a website called no market dot org.
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And Sean says, thanks for the information on the leaf,
because I did talk about my niece on leaf in
the last week's show. Yeah, he says, thanks for the
information on the leaf. Rob, We're probably still a few
years off from a new vehicle purchase, but my wife
and I are seriously considering going with the electric car
route for our next car. Thanks Sean for the comment.
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I think it's a that's a wise decision to consider
your next car as being an electric car. I think
it's a it's a smart way to go as you
look into the future, and I think the increasing focus
on climate change and and what's happening around our CO
two emissions, I think it's an important move that all
of us need to be to be considering in the future.
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And I appreciate that comment and that consideration. I would
love to hear more comments from listeners here about the
whole topic of the globalization of podcasting. I think it
be great, And if you do, go to the site
and make a comment about that, I'll definitely talk about
it on the show and we can keep that topic going.
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So anyway. I also got a audio comment last week
from Jim Munchback from Imake Your Money Count dot com podcast,
and let's play his audio message they sent me. He
sent me on an MP three file, and let's listen
to it right now.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Hello Rob, Jim munchback here at imakeormoney count dot com.
It's a weekly podcast for students of personal finance. I'm
a professor at the Bauer College of Business the University
of Houston. I teach personal finance and I also have
a weekly podcast. But I was just wanting to leave
you this message to tell you how much I appreciate
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your podcast. I listened to all four of the first
of the first four episodes when I went out on
a walk this week in Houston, Texas, and I was
I'm eager to hear the next episodes, and I hope
we can connect some more offline and online. And thanks again.
And I also got your email that my podcast was
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accepted in Microsoft, So that's cool, and it's good to
know you. A lot of friends Cliff Ravenscraft and a
lot of our friends in the podcast Mastermind know you
and talk about you, and so anyway, I feel like
I'm connected to a resource and a guy who knows
a lot about a lot of things, mainly podcasting. So anyway,
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looking forward to getting to know you more. And thanks
for your show and I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Take care well, Jim, Thanks so much for the nice comments.
Feel free to reach out to me anytime that you
have a question or you want to make a comment,
and as you can hear, I love getting your ideas
and thoughts in audio on the show, So send your
MP three file to me or just let me know.
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If you have topics that you want to hear about
on the show, send them to Rob at Rob Greenley
dot com and I would be more than happy to
play them on the show. Well that's the whole show
this week. I'm Rob Greenley and I'm the podcast guy
for Windows Phone and Zoom, and I want to thank
you for listening to my thoughts here today. I also
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co host the New Media Show on Saturday mornings at
nine am Pacific Standard time noon Eastern Time with Todd Cochran,
CEO of Raw Voice. We actually don't have a show
coming up this coming Saturday, or actually the next two Saturdays.
It's kind of a holiday break for us. Please keep
us in mind, and like I said, send me your
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Thanks so much for listening, talk to you next week.