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Paul Graham, Please Start a YC Podcast

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I have a better idea. How about a reddit/digg style podcast channel on YC News where users can submit links to mp3s, and the community upvotes them. And then YC offers the top 10 as a podcast feed so you can automatically download them.

mp3s can be on startups, tech, entrepreneurialism etc.

I think thats a great idea. I am just so hungry for good podcasts and I go through them by Wednesday every week. If they can do jobs, podcasts should be easy.

Yes I love some of ITConversations (or whatever it's called now), but it's like drinking from a firehose. I only want to the best ones.

We could also chuck in some classic ones like classic ones on Dr Dobbs etc.

I also want more startup/business related podcasts instead of straight up technology podcasts

Yes! One I like to listen to is Venturevoice.

I like Venture voice, but they haven't had a new podcast in months and I have listened to every single one of their podcasts.

Maybe the reason that IT Conversations still sticks everything into a single RSS feed is that they are secretly hoping for somebody else to do the fancy classifying and tagging for them...

How about audio from the founder dinner speakers?

too bad mp3 is a proprietary format.

You can podcast in OGG, if you insist.

Personally, I like to podcast by sound waves. It's totally cool, I use this flap of skin to move air around and I can podcast to people around me at the same time. It has limited range though....

Sorry, podcasts are not my kind of thing. Jessica Livingston is about to start a blog, though.

I think podcasts and essays are close. Podcasts are just more efficient....

Not even for the founders dinner speakers? Looking Forward to Jessica's blog. I am about to finish her book.

We could never record the speakers. Dinners are off the record so that speakers can say things they would never dare to say publicly.

Makes sense. I am just so hungry for information and tired of reading.

Are you writing a June essay?

Actually I've been working on News.YC lately. And advising 19 new startups. I can just about remember what they're each working on...

Think you're getting close to the upper limit of startups per session?

I felt that way at the first dinner, but things are under control now.

'... Podcasts are just more efficient ...'

For users, not creators. They take a lot of work to do properly (Doug Kaye, The Secret Lives of MP3 Files, http://pa.gigavox.com/shows/detail1600.html mp3, 54min, 25Mb ) and besides articles are way more bandwidth efficient given their size.

I meant this relating to time. It takes a long time and a couple of revisions to write a good polished essay (or blog post) I think for creating a podcast you write down what you want to talk about in point form and then you talk and elaborate on these ideas.

That would be the equivalent of writing down a few notes for your essay beforehand and then posting the first draft. The revisions are needed for a reason, which doesn't go away if you're talking instead of typing.

My personal feelings are strongly anti-podcast. I find them a great inconvenience. I can read faster than people can talk and I can't think or work effectively when someone is talking. Written communication is by far my favorite way of getting information.

I agree, but podcasts are great when you are going for a walk, driving, or riding your bike.

I think a podcast by the YC partners would be cool too.

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