'Queercaster' shares SF stories with worldwide audience

[swimmernsecretsea]

by Matthew S. Bajko
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Patrick Barresi, a nearly 12-year resident of San Francisco, has become an unlikely international star of the podcasting world. The creator of the "queercast" Bad Weeds, and voice to the show's host, Corkey Mineola, Barresi helps his listeners in Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Asia and across the United States hear a slice of life by the bay with his near daily postings.

On any given day 175 to 250 people download his show either directly from his Web site at www.badweeds.com or from Apple's iTunes Web page. Barresi's podcasts, basically audio blogs one can listen to directly on a computer or download to an iPod, typically run between 30 to 40 minutes. Some of his earlier shows have been downloaded between 400 to 500 times.

"I look at podcasting as a way of performance art," said Barresi, 42, a consultant to the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and a part-time health instructor at City College.

Full story here: http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=459

[Corkey Mineola]

1. Thanks for posting this -- Come Join us Bad Weeds!

I appreciate your posting this, swimmer.
Please tell everyone to listen to Bad Weeds SF! We have some great content just waiting for everyone!
Corkey aka Patrick aka Publichealthnut1

[swimmernsecretsea]

2. My pleasure!

The content looks great. I just downloaded my first podcast from Bad Weeds SF.