Thoughts on Evoca

Here's my podcast, which I'm not expecting any of you to actually listen to, so I wanted to just go over some of the things I spoke about in text form, in case you're interested in hearing what I have to say, but not in listening to me say it. I was very disappointed in evoca, mainly since I have had experience with other podcasting sites in the past that I found very simple to navigate. The interface, to me, was very confusing and jumbled and I found it rather difficult to get to the point where I was actually able to create a recording. The recording process was fairly simple, although I was annoyed by the fact that the player does not allow you to rewind or fast-forward, nor does it allow you to record over what you had previously recorded, which is why, in the podcast above, you will hear my "test, test, 1, 2, 3" recording right at the beginning. The biggest disappointment to me, however, was the fact that evoca only allows you 15 minutes of free recording. This seems pointless since other sites exist that allow you to record and store an unlimited amount of recordings for free (sites like mypodcast, podomatic, odeo, etc.). Also, with the free Audacity program, you can create your own podcasts while NOT ONLINE and then modify or edit them to your liking and upload them to other sites. I think the advantage of evoca is that it offers a cross-platform service, in which you can make recordings from a phone or from skype, which could be very nifty for something like an on-the-fly recording while abroad or something, but to me, it's not really worth paying for that type of service. I think for now I'll just stick with the free services...there are just so many of them available.

And just one more quick note, not necessarily related only to evoca: interface is everything.