For me, it was producing a scifi/mental-health podcast which blended my three great passions of music, programming, and love of my own voice^H^H^H writing fiction.
The experience has been life changing!
More people should try podcasts: They’re almost as simple as a blog to produce, but allow you to present your story or information in a much more evocative and personal medium: Voice, sound, and music. Additionally, and unlike something like Youtube or Spotify, you retain total control. All you need, essentially, is a website to host MP3s, and an XML file that tells people where those MP3s are. There are plenty of services that will do this for you for a few dollars a month (I use Spreaker), but that’s what it boils down to: No gatekeepers, no monopolies, no algorithms.
The experience has been life changing!
More people should try podcasts: They’re almost as simple as a blog to produce, but allow you to present your story or information in a much more evocative and personal medium: Voice, sound, and music. Additionally, and unlike something like Youtube or Spotify, you retain total control. All you need, essentially, is a website to host MP3s, and an XML file that tells people where those MP3s are. There are plenty of services that will do this for you for a few dollars a month (I use Spreaker), but that’s what it boils down to: No gatekeepers, no monopolies, no algorithms.
I wrote a step by step guide to getting into this, based on my own experience of writing and publishing 6 seasons (so far!) on my blog, here: http://www.0atman.com/articles/21/make-fiction-podcast