DIC #33 – The Last Podcast Show
Fellow winners, this is the last one. Yet, before I go off the feed I’d like to thank all my listeners and contributors who have supported this show (listed below). Also, I’d like to introduce Geoffrey Singer, a writer living in Ohio.
The old shows will remain on the feed or you can download them here>>
Thanks Forever:
Norm Sherman of the Drabblecast, Richard Arndt, Steve Eley of Escape Pod, My Wife Anna, The Absent Bluenose, Summer, Alex and Marissa of Ricky Shore Sings the Blues, Sundown Lounge, Ami Shetland, Frank Forrest, Kim Martin, Ed Rubin, The Evie Man, Rick Quentin – your check is in the mail, Shari Wright, Demented Radio
Don’t Be the Next…Be the Original
As a freelance web designer, I get calls from people who have the next great Internet idea:
It’s life Facebook….for Dogs!!!
It’s like Facebook…for Christians!!!
Sadly, these folk lack the two key components of the next great idea: passion and capital. You can do without the latter, but nothing comes into being without the first one.
These would-be internet gazillionaires are under the false idea that all the billion-dollar ventures started as entrepreneurial ideas. In reality, they started as hobbies or by just a few geeks tinkering between Hot-Pocket binges. These inventors had a passion before they had a paycheck.
Google began as a Stanford computer science thesis. Both MySpace and Facebook were created for a small audience by a few dorm rats. Even Digg was created to see if Slashdot could be improved. Then someone thought, “Hey, maybe I could actually make money with this.”
It’s a weather beaten chiche, but it’s true: Do what you love first, then worry about getting paid for it later. Yet, I do believe its true.
Yet, as I pour through Craigslist, I see many web-entrepreneurs struggling to come up with the next great start-up or company concept. With the optimism of a tone-deaf American Idol contestant, they put countless hours into projects that are just a clone with a different color.
This Kids in the Hall sketch encapsulates many of them:
However, few of us are hard-core techies. I’m soft-core myself. But some people can turn their hobbies into a living.
Digg: Five Years in 5 Minutes
Goodbye…Hello…It’s over at 33
Fellow Winners:
After some of the deepest contemplation I have ever done over a decision, I have found that the podcast version of Diabetic in Candyland is done. However, I’m just getting started.
I will have a final episode in February, where I will be a spring of ‘thankyous’ to everyone who has contributed and supported this podcast.
This decision has little to do with the decline of independent podcastingbut regards a reorientation of my life. This is the year I will become a professional writer. I have become a professional writer.
Hence, Diabetic in Candyland will become a text blog, but I may do audio entries when the spirit lifts me by the shirttail.
The podcast will remain in the archives of this site, but expect the format and look of this site to change.
As a kid, I used to steal away with my parent’s tape recorder. After I got done burping and farting in it, I decided to make up a few stories with my Star Wars and Playmobil characters. DIC fulfilled that childhood longing to put on my own show. Well, I’ve done that.
Thank you all for supporting this show, but stick around because I’d like to keep you up to date with my progress. If there is a life for me in print, then I I hope to someday call you ‘readers’ rather than ‘listeners’.
Stick around. The audio may have gone silent, but I’m just clearing my voice.
Join Me on Stickam.com for Live Video Interview with Ricky Shore Sings the Blues
Tonight at 8pm EST, I will be doing a live video Stickam.com interview with the comedy duo behind Ricky Shore Sings the Blues (http://www.youtube.com/user/RickyShoreSings). RSSTB learned comedy filmaking by doing. They’ve committed to making one video a day. So far, they have made over 450 videos and despite hardship and separation they have continued to produce.
A couple onscreen and off, Alex and Marissa have been rejoined after trying to break into Hollywood. We will be discussing their LA adventures and the travails associated with staying creative during rough times.
This is a followup of an interview with them from DIC #9: http://diabeticincandyland.com/2008/02/15/dic-9-justice-for-ricky-shore/
Details:
Where: http://stickam.com/diabeticincandyland – You don’t need an account to view the interview, but if you wish to chat then you must be a member.
Time: 8:00 EST.
RSSTB Youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/RickyShoreSings
Vote for Diabetic in Candyland at the PodCastAwards.com
Fellow Winners:
Please nominate this show for the upcoming PodCastAwards (http://www.podcastawards.com). I call up my army of dozens to rise up and help this show get the exposure it darn well deserves. Although you can’t vote for more than 2 shows for the top categories, you can nominate this show for others like Comedy or General.
Go to: http://www.podcastawards.com
Nominate: http://www.diabeticincandyland.com.
This is a toll-free call to action and you can keep the rollover minutes.
Anthony Elmore is based out the Atlanta burbs, but has lived in Tampa Bay and Prague. When not writing, he’s Internet version of the all-purpose handyman. Please don’t call him an “Internet Guru.” 
