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Here's how I envision a possible podcast:

Two community members stage a weekly call, much like Joel and Jeff of Stack Exchange do. The form could be one interviewing the other. Even if they both know what's coming, I think the conversational style would be inviting to listeners. The weekly call would be recorded and posted as a podcast.

The main content would be one question, probably from the past week. (We're averaging something like 30-40 per week, so there should be at least one excellent one.) The two people on the call would introduce it, say why they find the content particularly valuable, and then read the question, all interesting/useful answers, and any particularly good comments (possibly summarizing comment discussions).

Site news, if any, could come next.

It would probably be good to write up show notes to go with each podcast, containing a summary of what was discussed and links to the relevant material.

The purposes of this endeavor would be to spread our best content into a new medium and format and, if the podcast takes on a life of its own in the podcast world, draw in users to the site.

What do you think? Does this sound worth the trouble? Any ideas for refinement of the concept?

If you like the idea, would you be interested in volunteering to be one of the hosts?

Does anyone here have experience with or equipment for producing podcasts?

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You could also go the route of a blog – Rebecca Chernoff♦ Jul 24 '11 at 8:29
@Rebecca Yes, that's a possibility, but I don't think the sort of content suggested here, essentially "question of the week," would be useful enough in another text forum to carry a blog. We've had a couple other regular content ideas that I think could make for the seeds of a blog, if we get them off the ground. – Isaac Moses♦ Jul 24 '11 at 8:48
Check out some of the blogs there, many of the sites are highlighting questions on the blog, delving into them deeper or from a different angle. Regardless, what I mentioned in that post are simply ideas that might apply to many of the sites as general guidance. They are not requirements that you have those categories. Whatever would interest the community and draw in new users that people are interested in contributing is what we want. (: – Rebecca Chernoff♦ Jul 24 '11 at 16:11
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This sounds like an interesting idea. To get started, is there any potential for partnering with an existing podcast of some kind? Just a thought.

For further inspiration, a similar project was tried (successfully) over on the Apple Stack Exchange. You might be able to follow in their footsteps of how they went from 'good idea' to execution.

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Partnering with an existing program would be a great gig if we could get it. It would allow us to pool audiences and would also allow our most straightforward contribution - Q&A presentation, to exist as part of a larger program without us having to develop the rest of the program. – Isaac Moses♦ Jul 12 '11 at 1:20
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@Isaac Moses: You're not necessarily looking for that celebrity podcaster who already has a large following (although that would be nice). Typically, you're looking for that 2nd or 3rd tier hard-working wannabe who has a nice product who would love to hook in with an audience and the notoriety with a site like this. – Robert Cartaino♦ Jul 12 '11 at 1:50
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