People should be really careful what they write online, especially when they don’t know the topic well enough. I found an article written by Lynette Chandler called Article Site vs Blogs vs Podcast which only helped to show how unfamiliar she is with podcasting.

First, I’ll start off with the positive. She did say something that made alot of sense. She recommended that those who can’t be bothered with podcasting right now seek opportunities to appear on other podcasts as a guest. I really like that advice.

However, for every point she made about podcasting that I liked (which unfortunately is only one), I found 2 erroneous statements.

For example, Lynette wrote:

“Many people misunderstand podcasts, they look at it like they see radio and magazine which are totally different things. Fact is, many podcasts are blogs and vice versa.”

Have mercy. Aside from the grammatical error in the first sentence, podcasts aren’t blogs. For a succinct definition of what podcasts are, take a look at Wikipedia.

Another point she makes:

“If you find this to be true you can still create an influence of a podcast by being a guest on a show or even by contributing recorded segments. You could create an audio of an article that you’ve already got written so that it doesn’t take up much of your time.”

A little bit of proofreading would’ve helped polish up some of the grammar. Aside from that, my beef with the statement above is that when creating content for your podcast, you should not record yourself reading an article. Please don’t do that. I’ve come across so many studies that show that podcast listeners want original content in their podcasts. Check out the Canadian Podcast Listeners Survey to see for yourself.

My recommendation to Lynette and anyone else looking to write an article on podcasting is to ask someone more knowledgeable than you. It’s better to interview an expert in a given area and just include that person’s quotes in your article, than to write one like Lynette did that’s filled with incorrect advice.