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Re: Friday, March 18, 2005
The world does not necessarily need another podcaster. Podcasting is a channel. One more channel for people and organizations to communicate over. It is an important one as it is able to enable communications over coming the restrictions of time and connectivity. It has limitations mainly that the podreceptor (the one who catches the podcast and is the audience for the communication) needs the time to listen. Scanning, searching and browsing is not high on the list of mp3 player features. Nor is archiving and indexing. Reading text with images in a scanning mode with searching capabilities is where we are today. Please don't jump on the hype of podcasting. Please don't take your message from the highly effective medium that your blog represents. Please don't shift from a communications channel that works to one that has a more limited audience and places restrictions on your audience. I can't agree with Dave Winer. Doc, you are a good proxy for the podreceptor. Who cares if the podreceptor is a podcastor too ? What Bloxmatrix is all about (and I do use it having switched from Newsgator and Ipodder) is getting podcasts and streaming radio from the Internet and onto your local system. So when you spoke of Blogmatrix, you spoke as a podreceptor. A while ago you wrote about burning MP3's onto cd's for use on the road. Good trick, I used it too when driving my daughter's car. We need more voices from the audience perspective to balance the enthusiasm of the producer perspective. I find my own needs change depending on what my schedule is like. Podcasts are great on the road but not at home. Swearing just isn't a family thing in my house. But I still want to stay connected and 'hear' from people. It would be a shame to see different voices in print and in audio. Podcasting is great. Blogs are great. Email is great. Video clips are great. RSS is wonderful. And Dave, I used to do radio. But I doubt I will do a podcast. I know how to but don't have a burning desire to it. And I have the equipment. Just not the inclination. (That said I'll likely wind up doing one internally within 6 to 12 months). Before you tell me to fuck off again, I don't think that you have to record 30 minutes of stuff and create an RSS feed to be able to provide valuable input on podcasting. I doubt all the old media experts were all on air personalities. Your naivety as a technologist is showing. Just as it did when you declared that all podcasts must declare when they are pulling your leg. As if there aren't a lot of hidden agenda's out there. Transparency is a nice ideal but with millions of blogs and thousands of podcasts, it's a jungle out there. The wild wild west of the internet just keeps recreating itself. Podshow and others are in effect creating new radio stations. Hopefully they will add value. I'd like to subscribe to safe for work podcasts. I see this as mandatory to beyond geek acceptance of podcasting. I for one could never sponsor corporate acceptance of podcasts that cross the line that so many podcasts do. The hype on podcasting is jumping on the death of radio. This hype is fracturing the value of computer aided communications. Podcasting can enhance the reach of a communicator. A communicator is now a website author, a blogger, a vidcaster or a podcaster, etc. Let's hear more about integrated channels for communicators. I see a world where a user matches their information and entertainment needs with communicators, their own schedule and the appropriate channel to access the information. Ross
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