The work-to-audience size ratio is definitely something I keep my eye on; at some point you have to ask whether the extra work involved in producing an audio production justifies the wider audience, especially if we’re just talking about a few hundred people.

Actually though, I’m hitting another roadblock that came totally unexpected: how podcast freezes a literary creation. I work on an erudite erotica web project and am used to doing lots of revision months or even years after I put up what I considered to be a final draft of a story. That actually is what I love about the web: that the website will always have the latest and greatest version.

But with podcasting (and book publishing I guess), you are essentially admitting that the version you record will essentially be the canonical version. After that you no longer will do any more revisions (or else obligate yourself to rerecord the story).

The other issue I’m facing is: what to podcast, what simply to leave in simple text form. Podcasting is portable and has presence, but text is faster to consume and more WYSIWIG. The danger, I’m discovering, is podcasting TOO MUCH of my written content and deciding what kind of material is better left as a podcast, what kind of material is better left as a webpost, and what kind of material should be both.