As I said in my previous post, The Drax Files Radio hour isn’t the first of its kind, the popular MetaReality Podcast has been around for a while, Drax was part of that sometimes too! However in another way of making the point that talking is good, a discussion in the comments of the first Drax Files Radio Show episode related around other Second Life related podcasts and thanks to links from Crap Mariner of 100 words stories, I can see that there were many other podcasts in the past.
An example is the now defunct SecondCast, which was presented mainly by Johnny Ming and Torrid Midnight of Torridwear. However other people would also host the show, including Cristiano Midnight of SLUniverse and Snapzilla, Lordfly Digeridoo and Walker Spaight of 3pointD.com and the Second Life Herald, is this the same Walker who became a Linden as conversation manager? Thanks to the wayback machine we can find descriptions of the sort of content the show covered. Unfortunately we can’t hear the content.
23rd May 2006 – We recently posted an interview with Reuben Steiger, former Linden Lab Evangelist, who has recently launched a Metaverse professional services company called Millions of Us.
Millions Of Us went on to do plenty of work within Second Life, including work with corporations, here’s a video of the opening of te CNET HQ in Second Life back in November 2006:
July 5th 2006 – Johnny and the Secondcasters interview Philip Linden a.k.a. Philip Rosedale on the 3rd anniversary of Second Life and the 6 month anniversary of Secondcast. Topics range from the new open user registration to the changing culture on the grid and the “Get Philip In Your Pants” contest. Send your pants entries to Johnny Ming in-world (make sure they are transferrable).
Here we see an example of how the Lindens would engage with broadcasters, over the years the Lindens did engage with other broadcasters, they were interviewed on the Paisley Beebe chat show, for example.
July 16th 2006 – Johnny and the Secondcasters interview Randy Moss of the American Cancer Society and Second Life resident Jade Lily. The group discusses the 2nd Annual SL Relay for Life and fundraising in virtual worlds. Torrid describes her team’s fundraising strategies and Johnny ends the show explaining the source of the male Secondcasters tennis elbow. Don’t miss the Relay for Life this upcoming weekend!!
This makes one feel old, relay for life was only in its second year back then! There were many other podcasts, some of which are listed on the wiki.