The announcement almost two weeks ago that PreviewCast was being discontinued was a surprise to some, and not so much of a surprise for others. My PreviewCasted Frustrations, which were posted here on Webmacster87.info just a week prior to the closing episode #052, kind of marked the inevitable. For the record, though, I had tried quite a bit during the rest of the week to organize another PreviewCast episode, in the hopes that it might continue, but those efforts failed to the point when I realized on March 30th that PreviewCast had essentially run completely out of steam and that it was time to mark the end of that program.

None of us really wanted it to end, because we’ve all loved PreviewCast, which is probably why it didn’t end many months ago. As I lamented in my PreviewCasted Frustrations post, once August 2007 came around, PreviewCast, which had been going full steam ahead, stopped short in its tracks. We tried a number of times to rejuvenate the show, and a couple of times managed to get an episode together, but for me (the main organizer of PreviewCast), it was as hard as trying to get two magnets to stick to each other the wrong way. We’ve all been busy, myself included, and many of the PreviewCasters pretty much lost interest. Larry, my co-host, has done the smart thing and started spending more time with his life and less time online, which unfortunately meant that he hasn’t been around much anymore to be on this show that he was the co-host for. Essentially, we could not continue to produce the show due to the inability to have more than one of us around to produce a show with.
I decided on that Sunday that I could no longer spend my energies trying to revive PreviewCast in vain.

Nevertheless, I am still hoping to be able to bring around some kind of successor to PreviewCast soon. Not right away, granted, because I’ve got a lot of stuff on my plate right now (and probably shouldn’t even be spending the time to write this blog post), but I still kind of have an itch to be able to reincarnate PreviewCast into somewhat of a new offering, that might be a bit more reliable and a bit more polished than PreviewCast, and perhaps some new talent behind it, but still maintain its roots as a technology/teen-oriented/rather random podcast. I’m still in discussions with some people about this, and so I don’t want to reveal anything before anyone (including myself) is fully committed to it, as things can still quickly change. However, I do want to say that for those of you who were PreviewCast fans, you’ll want to stay tuned, because I’m hoping to be able to announce a new successor to PreviewCast soon.

Until then, I’ll just have to keep blogging.

Tags: future, past, Podcasts, PreviewCast, production, reflection, successor, tech, teens