Jeremiah Tolbert

I need to under­stand more about how peo­ple inter­act with pod­casts, now that I’m edit­ing for one.  I have some ques­tions that I’d like to ask you all.

• Do you lis­ten to pod­casts? If so, which ones?  (If no, please do say so, and you can ignore the rest of the questions.)
• How do you lis­ten to them?  At your com­puter, in the car, while jog­ging, etc?
• Do you just sub­scribe in iTunes or another pod­catcher and for­get, or do you read the web­sites asso­ci­ated with them too?
• What kinds of prod­ucts adver­tised in a pod­cast via spon­sor­ships would you actu­ally find interesting?
• What are the traits of a good pod­cast episode in your opinion?

I’m just try­ing to under­stand how peo­ple inte­act with pod­casts a lit­tle more.  I have my own pre-​​formed the­o­ries, but they’re not based on anyone’s real­ity except my own.  Ostensibly, answers to these ques­tions will help me make Escape Pod an even bet­ter pod­cast than it already is.

By they way, let me just say, we’re a pay­ing mar­ket, but we can’t pay with­out the sup­port of our lis­ten­ers.  If you reg­u­larly lis­ten to Escape Pod and enjoy its con­tent, please con­sider mak­ing a dona­tion via PayPal.  Much like NPR, we’re funded by the listeners.

And of course, if you’re a writer, I want to see your sto­ries.  Read our sub­mis­sion guide­lines and send your work along!

This week, I pur­chased sto­ries by:  Kameron Hurley, Merrie Fuller, Ian Creasey, David Rivera, Ian McHugh, Tina Connolly, and more.  As an edi­tor, I don’t have any agenda other than to find sto­ries that I think are good that will also make good audio pro­duc­tions.   I think we have some great sto­ries com­ing up for the lis­ten­ers.  I hope they and you will agree.