What happened to Kaiku?
It's been a long time since there was a new podcast. The main reason for this was a lack of music submissions from artists. The secondary reason, which was largely due to the first, was my disillusionment with the whole idea. The third reason was a lack of funding and the considerable unpaid work needed to make the show. The fourth reason was that there weren't enough listeners.
So all in all I stopped making them because it started to be more of a hassle than a pleasure.
But, if I get any comments or suggestions from people interested in the Kaiku podcast continuing in some form or another, I'll be happy to get things moving again.
Kaiku might also return as a series of gigs or mini-festivals at some point in the future. Now I have an artist grant for a year so I'm more willing to spend time on activities like this because I don't have to worry so much about where the money for the mortgage is going to come from!
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Just thought I'd drop you a note and say I miss this show. It was one of the first music podcasts I picked up when I got into podcasting.
If you ever do resume it, drop me a note and let me know.
-- Jason Tippitt, Mental Nomad Podcast (mentalnomad.libsyn.com)
Hi, just stumbled across your stuff thanks to last.fm. I'll definitely check out your podcasts. Keep it up...
jgjug@hotmail.com
Thanks to both of you...
As jgjug said I've added a lot of stuff to last.fm in the last few days. Last.fm is really great, but it only plays your music if enough people listen to it, which is knd of catch 22.
I'm still thinking what to do with the podcast...
Yeah, I also liked Kaiku podcast a lot and it was propably the first podcast which gave the Wow, this is cool feeling when i was checking what is this podcast-thing.
Your speech based music program is definetly working concept, but the question how to get music and listeners is harder one.
Some help with the second one maybe is to make co-operation with other podcasters in Finland. Henrik Antonen author of PodPäivä (daily finnish podcast) with his Radio Koskisuomi -network is doing something like this already.
For visibility (and for music) also could be good thing to just boldly tell to pHinnWeb (electronic music blogger/artist), muusikoiden.net forum (finnish musicans labor union), RokLintu (blogger), Meteli.net , Mikseri.net , Lupatarkastaja (blogger), Levyvirasto (Finnish indiemusic webstore), RockBlog etc etc... that you have this Kaiku musicpodcast thing.
Your podcast is good and people allways need a way to tell that they have some music and other people need some way to find it (and filter out bad music) :)
Thanks Zache - the list of other blogs is useful. I send notifications to pHinnWeb but no the others.
I'd especially like to find out about blogs and sites/mailing lists I could publicise it on and find artists from in Norway, Sweden, Russia, Estonia etc. I'd really like the podcast to be more pan-northern europe. I makes for a broader collection of music styles. So if anyone has any info let me know
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