The AudioShocker goes back to the summer of 2003 when Neal and Nick were sitting around bored. Suddenly, we had a brilliant flash of genius -- an audio magazine made exclusively for the web... like radio show, but pre-recorded and put online!!!
It seemed like a great idea. But wait... who would want to download an mp3 of two guys talking? And the file size would be huge! We brainstormed a bunch of stuff, talked about distribution / presentation, and even recorded a demo track.
But nothing ever happened. That's why it's called a podcast and not a nealnickcast.
Four years and several 40s later, it was time for us to make good on our brilliance and bring you the AudioShocker, the best place to hear about new music, movies, comics, and other trends.
Over time, the AudioShocker has grown from a single weekly podcast into a busy blog featuring awesome reviews of music videos, various different podcast series including comic creator interviews, original webcomics, and tons more. We have several regular contributors, too: Pete, Conrad, er... um... okay mostly just Pete and Conrad.
Technically speaking, we are hosted at Dreamhost. We run WordPress, (natch), and we use the K2 theme. Our podcast feed is courtesy of the Mighty Seek PodPress plugin, and we love it. We record the podcast using some proprietary Skype hackery and then Nick does all the post in Audacity. The header graphic is a little something that Neal cobbled together in Inkscape using Joe Bob's Stampete font. If you can do better - let us know!
Got a question? get at us: audio@audioshocker.com
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