Prombies: Collaborative Podcasting Across North America

In celebration of Halloween, I got involved in a new radio show out there. This new show is very much in the same vein as "Dodge Intrepid and the Pages of Time," except that I wasn't involved in the writing process... and it's filled with zombies.

This one-shot radio play is called "Prombies," and was written and produced by a couple of the writers over at DVD Verdict. The Verdict site already puts out three podcasts a week, one of which was nominated for a podcast-of-the year award over the summer, but this one is special for Halloween. It's also special because of the way it was recorded.

The cast of "Prombies" consisted of a number of the staff writers for the Verdict site, all of whom are scattered across the United States and Canada. So rather than deal with everyone recording their lines and compiling MP3s, the producers of the show decided to do perform it all live using a program called Skype. So over the course of a few weeks last month, we met in Skype voice conferences and read our lines together. It was a great experience, and certainly a fine example of online collaboration.

The sound quality is a little shaky, mainly because of Skype and the fact that everyone was using different sound equipment, but the content is solid. It's a hilariously campy send up of the zombie genre and those classic 50's high school movies. You can check it out by visiting DVDVerdict.com or downloading it here.