While I’m at it, I want to toss out there just how enthused I am that the show is so upbeat and positive: rarely is there a real dig, never is there a character jab, and if anyone does happen to slip with an insulting or self-deprecating comment, someone always steps up and rights the situation.

I love everyone’s positive attitudes on this podcast, and negative/low brow is why I’m trimming my itunes of other designerly podcasts.

That’s really good feedback, Bryan–though I’m a bit puzzled, as this episode is quite a bit shorter than some of our episodes, especially the early ones.

I understand what you say about time, but what I’d recommend is that you listen to the podcast while doing other things (on your MP3 player or iPod). Our goal (like that of many podcasters) is to produce an online audio show (similar to radio), in that I’m assuming that you’re not sitting down and listening to every word we say (although if you do, that’s awesome). Video is much more captive in that respect.

That being said, I do think that there’s a ton of really great content in there for freelancers. We also find an hour to be the best amount of time to cover a good deal of topics but also not go too long. It’s something we’re always thinking about, but right now we’re rather comfortable with an hour. Does that make sense?

Since the podcast is so new, I have to tell you why I haven’t listened much until recently. The podcast is very LONG, and seemingly unnecessarily. Out of all of the podcasts I listen to, this one comes in as the longest by a good 15 minutes. I really like the topics you cover, but the length is prohibitive to me, in that there are few periods of a full hour + that I can give something my full attention these days.

Maybe half as much, twice as often? I’m not a podcaster, so I really have no idea! Just throwing out one of the reasons that my favorite podcasts got that way.

Liz: As soon as Cyan has a stable internet connection, we are expecting her back on the podcasts. Ah the joys of overseas travel!