I'm listening to your podcast now and I'd like to weigh in on your discussion of you two being "fanboys" and its affect of the coverage on your show. Let me preamble this by stating that I am offering my criticisms and recommendations as a way to make the show better overall.
1) Are you "fanboys"? In my opinion, no, although I can understand the belief. Both of you do provide salient support of your united positions on products and technology. However, what I think you fail to do is investigate thoroughly the reasons behind the technology products that you don't agree with. Both of you have very similar opinions and experiences with things, so your commentary tends to be one-sided, and thus, less informative and interesting to us, the listeners.
2) Do you give short-shrift to technology and products that you don't personally support? I have to say "yes" to this one, and that's why you are perceived as "fanboys". I understand the "me, too" responses you give to each other, but you should try to at least present the opposing points thoroughly. Research not just the PR sheets you get, but also the comments from readers, as there are usually a few responses that will be able to give you enough information to provide a "devil's advocate" perspective.
I really do enjoy listening to you guys, but I want you to have the best HD podcast - period. I don't think you need to be on opposite sides of everything, but consider "Siskel & Ebert". They both agreed and disagreed at times, however they did present good contrarian points as needed, making their show the tops in what they did. You should strive for that, too.
And also, use more terms like "supposably", Ben. That there is podcast gold!
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I'm listening to your podcast now and I'd like to weigh in on your discussion of you two being "fanboys" and its affect of the coverage on your show. Let me preamble this by stating that I am offering my criticisms and recommendations as a way to make the show better overall.
1) Are you "fanboys"? In my opinion, no, although I can understand the belief. Both of you do provide salient support of your united positions on products and technology. However, what I think you fail to do is investigate thoroughly the reasons behind the technology products that you don't agree with. Both of you have very similar opinions and experiences with things, so your commentary tends to be one-sided, and thus, less informative and interesting to us, the listeners.
2) Do you give short-shrift to technology and products that you don't personally support? I have to say "yes" to this one, and that's why you are perceived as "fanboys". I understand the "me, too" responses you give to each other, but you should try to at least present the opposing points thoroughly. Research not just the PR sheets you get, but also the comments from readers, as there are usually a few responses that will be able to give you enough information to provide a "devil's advocate" perspective.
I really do enjoy listening to you guys, but I want you to have the best HD podcast - period. I don't think you need to be on opposite sides of everything, but consider "Siskel & Ebert". They both agreed and disagreed at times, however they did present good contrarian points as needed, making their show the tops in what they did. You should strive for that, too.
And also, use more terms like "supposably", Ben. That there is podcast gold!
Great work, guys!