"Several times a week Mr. Sigler, 37, steps into a walk-in closet in his San Francisco home. He reads into a microphone that connects to his computer via a sound mixer. Hanging shirts envelop him, masking ambient sound..."
— http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/books/01podb.html?ref=technology&pagewanted=all
Yep. Great article. I know just about everyone named in it, and I'm delighted to read about them here. (Especially since I now have pictures to verify that my sound setup is better than Sigler's.) >8->
It's nice to see that there's some mainstream attention being caught by this whole thing. It's focused on audio novels rather than short stories, so there's no mention of Escape Pod or the other short story podcasts.
EP has had its share of press in the past (we've been mentioned in the Boston Herald, the London Times, NPR, and several genre magazines), and I believe we'll keep getting it. It's a fun ego kick. But to tell the truth, I'm actually happier when I see people blogging about Escape Pod. Reporters for the most part don't care about any of this stuff, they're just looking for novelty. But when I check the Technorati searches and see what someone wrote about EP in their LiveJournal? That's
real. People are saying what they actually think, and nobody's making them say it. I groove on that a whole lot more, believe it or not. And I think we get more traffic from it too.