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Tina: Where do you see the website going?

Todd: That's a good question. Right now we're trying to change ... I say we because I have a partner, Joel Carda. Joel was actually with me in the technology class. That's how we became friends, and he's been involved in the project on and off since the beginning though he worked for a large company on a regular basis. And he's been involved very actively as a full partner in my company for the last three years I think ... He’s got heaps of original ideas and knows how to put them into practice. He suggested doing more situation type stuff, debates and things like that. He’s dead right but...that can cause additional technical problems. At that point we might need more sophisticated equipment. Joel thinks we need a digital sound editor. So we're trying to change the website to… continually make it better.

Tina: Grand plans…

Todd:But actually the biggest thing is we're going to try to focus on quality. Because when the website first started, I tried to only interview unusual or outstanding people who were brilliant speakers. They came to share their unusual experiences with young people. I can’t say that quality bothered me much at that time because I taught full-time and traveled a lot. Actually, I’ve always taught full-time, and I never really had that much time to worry about editing and proof-reading and things like that. People have been pretty tolerant but I am sorry to say that there were a lot of misspellings, confusing errors and things like that.

Tina: Yeah, I've noticed you don't have any controversial topics on your website. Why not?

Todd: Right. I don't have too many controversial topics. It just takes too long for people to talk about it. It leads to long conversation with people expressing their views, morals and arguments, which I generally don’t mind, though sometimes I find them really boring. However, the way the audio is set up on my site is, kind of, short. For more extended conversations we need more sophisticated equipment, which is beyond the site capacity, really. And I try to keep it three or four minutes, no longer. That’s essential.

 

Tina: Ok, I mean, I think there are a lot of people who are really interested in controversial topics.

Todd: Well, I think there are some, but I can discuss these topics with you or with my close friends. I do have principals and opinions of my own. However I’m not really comfortable arguing with complete strangers about medical issues, morality or politics. I don't feel comfortable saying what's right or what's wrong about someone else's culture so I just ended up not putting it on just because I didn't want to take sides. You know, it's so easy to alienate a small portion of my audience and I just don't want to do that. So I just play it safe, and I don't talk about it.

Tina: OK, well, you seem to have a lot of listeners who are very happy so don't worry about changing it.

 

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