Random Articles

• Podcasting Rewards Good Conversation, Not Celebrity Greg Lindsay over at Business 2.0 linked to the Working Pathways’ economics of podcasting post in his Podcasting’s Nonstar System article. “An unknown number of those Apple-made microstars will convince themselves that they hold a first-mover advantage in an untapped medium…Eventually they’ll fail, and they’ll fail faster than ever before…For the first time in the history
• NPR off Audible Was Easy, NPR Off NPR Is the Hard Part As broken by Tristan Louisthe Mac Observer (corrected by Doc), NPR is not renewing their contract with Audible. This is a good thing. Podcasting and public radio are peas and carrots. They belong together. By not renewing the Audible contract, NPR removed the easiest obstacle preventing them from offering more podcasts. After some conversations
• “Statistically Nobody is Listening to Your Podcast” “…at the beginning of the year Feedburner had 1 million subscriptions to podcasts it helped deliver. That number has now grown to 5 million subscribers for 71,000 podcasts. For you math fans, that means the average podcast has … 70 subscribers. - Frank Barnako” (emphasis mine.) 70 is a great number. It’s not a number that
• How We Should Get Podcasts On Our Phones There are a handful of services that bring podcasts to mobile phones over the phones data connection. Unfortunately, navigating the phone that way is really hard. I think there’s an easier way. Update 31 Aug 2007: I love the internet. If you wait long enough, the things you’re looking for will find you: “Podlinez is a free service that lets
• A Proposal for a TiVo, iTunes, Podcast Ad Formats 30 seconds is way too long. On the TiVo, we’re fast-forwarding through the commercials and other boring bits. We’re still watching as we fast-forward (we get the brand-impression, just more quickly and without sound). Same with podcasts. As I’ve mentioned earlier, we’re not skipping the ads, just getting through them more quickly. I know one