And also any working processess, time management, etc would be super helpful!
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How about RPGgrenade or someone else just does the whole QC and we just add our feature recordings on to it? ^_^
Man, I am lazy…
OK, I'll put more effort in this time:
How about RPGgrenade or someone else just does the whole QC including the features that they did themselves?
There, that's better! ^_^
Do you have any ideas for what you will do beyond the cosplay QC?
As for other ideas related to the QC, how about short interviews with thr crastors of featured comments, or perhaps just a recrding about it from them or a script, You could also do the same for the spotlights as well.
ozoneocean wrote:can I feature my own comic?! jk… no I'm serious…. or am I? you know i would do a quackcast with you guys… but i hardly have the time for anything like that XD plus it's not like I'm a renowned expert for anything in particular! i don't really deserve to be in a quackcast directly speaking =D
How about RPGgrenade or someone else just does the whole QC and we just add our feature recordings on to it? ^_^
Man, I am lazy…
OK, I'll put more effort in this time:
How about RPGgrenade or someone else just does the whole QC including the features that they did themselves?
There, that's better! ^_^
Do you have any ideas for what you will do beyond the cosplay QC?
As for other ideas related to the QC, how about short interviews with thr crastors of featured comments, or perhaps just a recrding about it from them or a script, You could also do the same for the spotlights as well.
We've talked a little bit about that before but I think the logistics put us off a little bit, since originally the 'turnover' for the features was fast, with us recording on the same day oz's comic is featured. I think we were worried we wouldn't get responses in time. We've been doing them on saturdays lately (a day which isn't great for me but necessary a bit often lately) so there's a little more time, so it might be possible. We could try sending a PQ or e-mail or comment for people asking them for comments/something to say. I'm not keen on having to always do interview questions for a feature though, not when adminning has been so unfun the last 6 months.
I'm just gonna be honest here and say that I'm running out of enthusiasm for these, like I've only got two or three more in me. I'm not sure how Oz feels but with the site feeling so dead lately and very little feedback/participation generally with the QCs I'm not sure if it's worth it (to me) to keep doing them, especially with the Wowio situation so rocky. On the QC two weeks ago I asked listeners to click the 'like' button or something so we had an idea of how many people listened and so far there's only four. I'm not soliciting for praise but we have no data about downloads/etc and most of the time it just feels like no one is listening to them any more. (Plus sometimes I feel like we've used up all the good topics.) It's been way too tempting since summer to say "let's just have a topic and not plan anything and just talk about stuff" and I'm not convinced that makes a very interesting or informational show. Considering how apparently fewer people have been listening since like, May? maybe they dont think so either. :] If neither oz nor I ever feel like putting much effort into it, perhaps that's a hint we should stop. Anyway we've been doing them for almost a year and it doesn't feel like there's been much benefit from them. Then again perhaps that's my own fault, I didn't think about how I'd measure success or something.
I feel bad about it because I know a couple of regular people do listen, and if I stop then Oz won't want to do it by himself. but perhaps someone with more motivation, time, and ideas would want to co-host (or take over)? It was convenient for us to do the QC because we're admins, but it could be any kind of show people like with other people doing it.
Oh Skool, you're such an emo. ^_^
(Sooo temped to draw an emo munke right now)
Seriously though, yeah… The QC is extra work that it seems we do just for the sake of work.
What I like about them is that it's another outlet for DD to communicate with people, adding another dimension to how we interact with fellow duckers and get information out there about the site and the things we're doing on it, like features and stuff and community projects… and investigations into different aspects of webcomicing can be interesting.
But it IS work and many's the time that I just approach these things with dread and reluctance because I just don't want to be doing more work.
So, the thing with soliciting ideas for Quackcast ideas isn't that we want suggestions so much as fully realised ideas, because the last thing we want is MORE work.
So… we would LOVE it if someone would do a whole guest cast!!!! ^__^
That is one of the reasons for my suggestionsm it needs a bit of a change up. Is there anyone else that could step in to assist?
I think the topics of the last few have been harder for people to get involved as well. they have been interesting enough but not all have been easy to contribute to. there are some I meant to but time hasn't been on my side recently. you should definitle do a horror themed one for halloween though.
The horror suggestion is a good idea, that would be a fun one for halloween. :] And hopefully that's enough time to find some good horror comics to mention.
I think just some suggestions for interesting topics that we haven't done already would be useful too, since lately we've felt like we're running out of more general-interest ones.
Please do suggest changes, or tell us if there's something you don't like. Zero feedback is harder to deal with then negative! Changes in format or focus can be difficult because they might involve extra work (being demotivated about the qcs/DD already anyway, so trying to find more time for it is hard). But if it's a change or suggestion I can get excited about then no problem… but we've done QCs before which involved lots of research and that's hard for me and oz to keep up week after week. Having guests makes some topics simpler, but then we have the trouble of finding the guest, getting times set up, etc. which is sometimes a little difficult.
Originally we imagined this would just be a brief 20-minute 'drunk duck news' type of podcast, so it's definitely grown from there, but I'm not sure where it's going. :]
Anyway I can post up some topics here over the weekend and maybe if people are interested we could put together a rough schedule, topics, etc? Perhaps for the guest ones you guys would be able to suggest people? Or we'd be more than happy to take longer submissions if the submitters are able to talk well about a subject (not that oz and I always do that well). And we're happy to take submissions for non-topic areas as well. Clever ads for people's comics, things like the radio play, different kinds of things…
Reviews, tie it in with the review forum somehow… maybe.
Ghosts of features past, check in on old featured comics. How have they progressed, if they progressed and so on and so forth. perhaps get creators of featured comics to make recordings or scripts.
Longevity, perhaps get some long lasting comic creators to talk about how they have managed to stay focused and the changes they and the comic have been through.
I like the idea of comic advertisements; the only problem is, everyone with a web comic wants to have it read, so there'll be like a jillion ads!
A radical idea, how about some non-webcomic segments? You know, have a little world news commentary. Something to break the mold. Yes, I know it then becomes less QC and more NPR, but it changes things up a bit. Y'know, give your 2-cents about world issues and let people send in recordings for theirs. The debate and discussion forum seems consistently active enough, so people do care about those things.
And now some regular-QC topic ideas…
-Humor: best served clean, or with a side of naughty? Give shout-outs to some DD comics that are legitimately funny with/out swears and raunchiness.
-Sprite comics: there's an infinite number of them out on the internet, but are any of them worth looking at? Can you or other DD'ers think of sprite comics that aren't a waste of time?
-Offline advertising: how do you advertise outside of the internet? Would you use business cards? Viral marketing? Word of mouth?
-Halloween: yes, it's here. Got any scary stories you share among family and friends?
And I think I would be down for a guestcast. Problem is I don't think I have a straight hour or so of free time to do a QC at the moment. Not to mention that I'm a stick-figure drawing, non-artist over-opinionated layman; so my knowledge of most of these topics are limited :P
Maybe a Quackcast segment that visits old forum threads? Just in General Discussion there's gems like:
How does your brain "say" peoples usernames?
Does your state/country have any werid Alien/UFO stories?
What isnt there a day for?
Announce 2 or 3 weeks ahead of time which thread will be resurrected and have a guest host who handles just that thread portion of that quackcast. The guest host could send PQs to those who posted (anything to add or retract?), or just randomly PQ other DDers collect quotes/recordings from say 3 - 5 people, adding up to maybe 15? 20? mins?
minimal scripting
I have no FRICKIN' clue how you guys even plan the quackcasts anyway =D if it's something spontaneous most of the time then surely i can participate!
i'd love to be a guest presenter. I'm a spontaneous guy and i USUALLY know how to ramble for extended periods of time.
but i'd kinda need to know what it is you guys do to prepare for one and how you record them (hopefully i won't be the one recording cuz my computer's a bitch about that) and i wouldn't be able to do an actual one until like november.
either way i'm all for it, maybe you guys can switch out, make a randomized system to get random sets of people talking to eachother, or at least set various duos of users for these things and switch 'em around for each one that has a good topic of discussion, I call harkovast! (lol, but i'll take anyone, you guys rock)
OK guys, we've got topics for the next 3 or so, which will be recorded on the next 3 saturdays probably:
1. website/design (not technical, more about design elements, things you need, logos, etc.)
2. horror (for halloween! could do with a guest)
3. fans/fandoms (probably need a big guest) or comic longevity (also probably need a guest)
So how do y'all want to participate here? Should I make separate threads for these? We'd love to get the usual types of contributions, but also examples and so on are good. And we'll surely need some horror comics, maybe some sort of discussion about horror as a genre? Suggestions for guests for the fandoms/longevity ones? (We could also have a guest for the horror one, no expertise required, just someone to join us!)
I think it might be an interesting Quackcast if a team of DD´ers wrote a new comic live on the air. Take experts in the fields of fantasy, horror, love and such stuff and show how easy it can be to come up with new ideas. Throw in some theories about how people should brainstorm and end up with a brand new comic. And then take a team of people and actually create the first issue.
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I think it might be an interesting Quackcast if a team of DD´ers wrote a new comic live on the air. Take experts in the fields of fantasy, horror, love and such stuff and show how easy it can be to come up with new ideas. Throw in some theories about how people should brainstorm and end up with a brand new comic. And then take a team of people and actually create the first issue.
This is an awesome idea; it's kind of like the Radio Play comic. Have a bunch of ducks together, let them come up with a feasible idea within the timeframe of the QC, and then maybe see it happen! I like it.
Niccea- usually when we have a guest on we do it Saturdays anyway (most of them have been in the US). So you didn't have to worry about that.
The collaborative comic thing is interesting- it would take some planning but if someone is willing to head up organization I think it's doable, and a neat idea. (Aside from any issues getting people to draw the pages)
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