Podrunner: Intervals launches February 1, 2008 (Read 755 times)

bunnyrunner-- No plans to stop any time soon! I dunno how you guys do these 20-mile runs. I'm exhausted if I drive that far. And, living in L.A., it probably takes me longer to drive 20 miles than it takes you to run it.

Hexemom-- Thanks for your kind comments, and for listening! I took the plunge early last year and became one of the first people to make a living (if you could call it that) primarily as a podcaster. Podrunner and Groovelectric easily take up five full days a week (I outlined the process in an earlier Run Time newsletter). The combination of listener donations and recent sponsorship has let me get by while I build Podrunner. I've made a living as a fiction writer, martial-arts instructor, and (heh) paper marbler, and I'm pretty familiar with living by the seat of my pants. I have a lot of faith in my work, and I've learned to have enormous faith in my audience; it has been an amazing and honestly humbling lesson in my life. It can be scary to get by like this, but I have found it much more rewarding to live on ramen on my own terms than to live on steak on someone else's. We also have new sponsorship coming up in February that will make the overhead (licensing, legal, site builds, you name it) and effort a less dicey proposition, and I'm pretty stoked about it. We'll also be launching a dedicated website. This will be relatively simple at first but we will quickly be adding resources for listeners. This has all taken a lot of time, work, negotiation, and overhead, but I'm very excited about what's going on. This may sound odd, but one of the coolest aspects of all of this is figuring out how much we can do for listeners and still have a revenue stream while keeping the whole thing absolutely free.