Hotel Coffee
Thanks to a link in Sam’s blog, Blogging At FL250, I discovered a really great podcast last week titled ’Hotel Coffee.’ The host, Dan O’Leary, is a pilot for Horizon Air and has a very raw podcast. But I say raw in the good sense of the word. As I mentioned in a recent email to Dan, podcasts where there is very little editing as more in tune with what I think podcasting should be: very much like a live radio show. So many podcasts these days try to be these highly polished, commercial quality shows and the end result, while refined, seems contrived and often times, fake. If you listen to Dan’s podcast #35, you’ll hear him mention me and quote those very words.
It’s the same thing with official company blogs: the companies are simply using the hype of blogs to turn press release type articles into ‘blog entries’. But I don’t fall for that, and I suspect that after a while neither will anyone else. People want their blogs raw; they want to hear people’s thoughts and feelings, not a ‘story’ written and rewritten by some media relations intern.
So check out Dan’s podcast for a true podcast, in the original spirit of what a podcast should be. It took me the better part of a week to catch up and listen to all his podcasts, but it was time well spent; truly enjoyable, full of cool stories about life as a first officer for a regional airline and, most importantly, raw.
Sun, 21 May 2006 04:22 Posted in Flying
