Freelance Radio, Episode 20: Even More Mailbag
The twentieth episode of Freelance Radio, the official FreelanceSwitch podcast, is now available! It’s another mailbag episode–all reader/listener mail, all the time!
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The Shownotes:
- This episode, the panel (John Brougher, Dickie Adams, Kristen Fischer and Von Glitschka) answer questions from the mailbag, discussing our plans in the case of terrible problems and how to get more clients when you’re used to a subcontracting arrangement. Thanks to all our listeners–keep the questions coming!
- Freelance Radio Recommends:
- Dickie: Oregon Exposure texture set, http://artbackwash.blogspot.com/2008/08/oregon-exposure.html
- John: w3schools tutorials, http://www.w3schools.com
- Kristen: The Washington Post’s Short Stack, http://voices.washingtonpost.com/shortstack
- Von: The Federal Bureau of Illustration, http://www.federalbureauofillustration.com; ustream.tv, http://www.ustream.tv
- Outro: This week’s song is by Liquorboxx and is called Samantha Fox from their album To The Fox. Visit them online at http://www.myspace.com/liquornbooze and their CD is available on CD Baby.
And that’s the episode! If you like it, please feel free to rate it in iTunes or your favorite podcast aggregator (check us out on Digg at http://www.digg.com/podcasts/Freelance_Radio), and don’t forget to email your questions/comments via the Freelance Radio form. If you’d like to record a question/comment or submit an original outro song, you can upload them via this form!
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"The guys at Freelance Switch put together a quality operation, topped off with a popular audio podcast."
Although good yet it was not as good as the other shows. I think if questions from the mailbag are answered they should have a limited time to answer each question and then move on to the next question. Somehow a lot of time is wasted on one or two questions and it drags on.
Awesome show guys! as a very new freelancer, and a web-developer for a fortune 500 engineering firm, I am constantly researching these topics, but hearing them discussed brings much needed new light. Thanks again
Tricks
CW: Alas, after the show was complete, we talked about how we were all out of sorts. I appreciate the candid thoughts and thanks for listening!
While listening to the podcast, I was working on a due-today project with my client over Skype. I heard the little ‘bwip!’ of a new message, and spent the next 10 minutes trying to figure out why I couldn’t find the message or why Skype was malfunctioning before realizing it was just in the podcast.
Whoops.
LOL! I heard the Skype ‘bwip’ too and thought the same thing. Isn’t it odd how we have become so tuned into tech sounds that they make us react so suddenly? My dryer beeping sounds just like one of the sounds on Team Fortress 2.
Coming to grips with time and space: I was caught up with the mini-drama of “getting clues about Dickie” and was later intrigued to see what Von is all about (lo and behold, his pic has been on his blog all along, but without the mystery of “Oooh, what does Von look like??” I never too notice!
Anyhow, it was disappointing to hear that Von had removed his “scary pic” during the recording of the podcast, and I was doubly disappointed to remember that all this actually happened a few weeks ago!
Keep up the great show.