14 Year Old Blogger/Podcaster – Josh Budde

An Interview by jeff

Josh is an upcoming blogger and podcaster with several podcasts published weekly such as Wetpaint Nation as well as a segment on the Podcaster And New Media Training podcast. Josh is only four-teen years old and thus, is known as Talkshoe.coms youngest support representative. Join us as we talk about, you guessed it, blogging and podcasting.

First off, how old are you and why do you blog?

I am 14, a few months off of turning 15 and I blog to talk about technology, personal blurbs and things I find interesting everywhere.

So, you’re an up and coming blogger. Have you noticed if many of your peers are also into blogging?

No, not many of my peers are really into blogging. Other than a few of them that make a little blog post here and there (every 3 months) on their profile page on Facebook, that’s it. I’d love to see more of my peers blogging.

You are known as Talkshoes youngest support team member. Could you tell us how you were able to grab that position?

One day I was talking with one of TalkShoe’s team members, Aaron Brauser, who was the Product Manager about maybe getting a job in support at TalkShoe. He said that he would talk with Dave Nelson about it and about a month and a half passed; and I had gotten an skype message from him saying that I had a job at TalkShoe. Of course, we had to make sure all was set legally before going any further; once I had the proper Working papers to work, I began working at TalkShoe. The decision of adding me was based on me helping out users for the less than a year I had been with TalkShoe.

Obviously, you have a good bit of experience with podcasting under your belt. What do you think of the podcasting medium versus blogging?

Well, Podcasting is definitely a different world from Blogging; I do enjoy podcasting, but that sometimes requires a lot more time and resources than Blogging. Blogging has been something I have been doing just about as long as I have been podcasting; but, have been writing for a lot longer than Podcast “Broadcasting” it is easier from the start. Some people have told me that I was born a Podcaster/Broadcaster and others have told me that I was born a writer and blogger.

With that experience under your belt, what would you tell people who are thinking about doing this thing called podcasting?

The first thing I would tell them is to ask themself a question, “Are you willing to give the time and resources to producing a podcasting a specific basis, like once a week or once a month.” If you answer yes, I would start researching on how to get started, I recommend checking out a podcast Called Podcaster Training, where there is a great panel of Podcasters.

What is your goals either as a podcaster or a blogger? Thinking about making a career out of this stuff?

As a podcaster, I am trying to produce the best quality content possible and maybe making money off of it in the future, but we all know how hard that is and as a Blogger, I definitely would love to at least have a part time job with it. I’ve still got about half my last year of Middle School left, so the choice of Career can change at anytime; but, as a blogger and podcaster; I would say it’ll be a part time job for me – planning to have a full time job in the media profession.

Like many of the others I have interviewed, you also have chosen to work with WordPress for your personal site. Why WordPress?

WordPress is an awesome platform, updated on a consistent basis with new features and security updates. Main reason is because I had tried out several other platforms, blogger, typepad and others; Wordpress worked the best for me and I will continue to use it for a long time!

Ok last but not least, I ask this to everyone! What do you think is the future of blogging?

The future of Blogging, I believe is that there will be many more types of blogs being created. Blogs have grown so much just in the year I have been blogging and it seems to be getting bigger everyday; not only the types and numbers of blogs that will be created, but the amount of ways to blog from blogging on your mobile phone, to the iPod Touch and maybe even blogging from your IM client some day. I do see the blogging world growing even bigger as the future comes.

This Interview was published on December 17, 2008 at 5:00 am • Did you like it? Subscribe!
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