Before I started writing scripts for the first Toddcast, before I even decided whether or not I should do a podcast, I drafted a list of tenets that would guide the show should it ever exist. Here's what I wrote:
- To promote a safe commute for listeners, audio is better than video. Audio with vivid, descriptive language is better still: like a book is better than a movie.
- To reduce ROT, Toddcast should aim to be timely when necessary but timeless when possible.
- To increase personality, it should not be afraid to be personal, surprising, and funny.
- Interviews should feel like intimate conversations that listeners have the good fortune to overhear.
- It should flow more like good FM radio show than a deck or a documentary.
- Includes outtakes at the end, where appropriate.
- To demonstrate the beauty of collaboration and sharing: talk the talk, walk the walk.
- Produced with open source software.
- Theme music should always change to interesting Creative Commons-licensed content.
- Share everything back CC BY SA (Attribution-Share Alike).
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