self-assessment of podcast

Despite the outcome of my podcast I feel that I learned a great deal during the process. I was very intimidated as I began working on it because I was utterly confused as to what my focus, or mood, was going to be. I knew that I was lacking inspiration. One afternoon a few weeks ago as I was sitting at my computer it dawned on me that there were two songs by the same artist, on the same album, which would be a perfect representation of my sentiments of the flat world. Finally, I felt inspired! I am glad to hear that some of the people who were able to listen to my podcast enjoyed my selection of songs because the lyrics (although written about a different subject) seemed to me an accurate reflection of my view of the flat world, and how it has come to be in my life.
I must say, though, that I struggled throughout much of the actual process of putting it together. I found that once I had a direction I was able to locate a variety of photos from flickr which I really loved. Unfortunately, upon saving them it seemed that there were perhaps copyright issues/restrictions of some sort on many of them, and once I attempted to place them in garage band they appeared as black squares, rather than the images I had saved. On my second and third tries I thought I had outsmarted the system, and found some of the same images from other image sites such as google, as well as turned to an alternate way of saving them. Upon compiling the entire podcast I found that some of those also appeared as black images. It was really disheartening for me. Although I know I am way behind the eight ball on not yet owning a digital camera (I swear that soon I will stop borrowing family members' cameras and purchase my own!), I thought that utilizing the images from the internet would work just as well. Actually, even better. The images I had found were directly related to the words I spoke and the lyrics sung in my podcast. To top it all off, I finally was able to lock down some images that were in color and appeared in garage band just as I had initially seen them, and it turns out that no one was able to view them!! I do not know what the problem was. I felt so technologically inept that I also did not even know how to go about finding a remedy for the problem last week when my 'peer reviewers' told me all they could access was the sound component. I am very disappointed, especially since I was proud of it in the end. Despite the problems I'd had with locking down images, I thought the ones I'd chosen were great. They represented my reluctance to embrace the advancement in technology which has infiltrated my life in so many ways, and finally they represented my willingness to accept these changes as I have felt practically forced into it. I feel that this project has enabled me to think more openly about things which I have in the past brushed aside. Even though there were several complications for me, I am fortunate to have had the opportunity to bring to light all of these issues now, while I am still learning.