DIY radio with PODcasting
Submitted by doc on Tue, 09/28/2004 - 15:19.
There was a time — until my late 30s, I guess — when most of my radio listening was to music. Then there was a time — roughly the last couple decades — when most of my radio listening was to NPR and talk radio. When that got boring in the morning, I'd switch to Howard Stern.
But there was a problem for me with talk radio, as there had been with music radio; and that was a growing irrelevance. Or a growing awareness of the irrelevance that had always been there.
Since the Net and the Web came along in the early and mid-90s, I've had a growing impatience with waiting around for stuff on the radio I might care about. Another way to look at it: All radio, commercial and noncommercial, including what we call the "content", was turning into the same kind of stuff-to-endure as the advertising and promotional announcements that paid for it.
But now most of my radio listening is to what Adam Curry and others are starting to call podcasts. That last link currently brings up 24 results on Google. A year from now, it will pull up hundreds of thousands, or perhaps even millions.
So this morning, here in my hotel room, I listened to the latest edition (September 27) of Adam Curry's Daily Source Code, Dave Winer's Morning Coffee Notes about the open-sourcing of Frontier, and a conversation between Adam and Dave about all the above, iPodder, Trade Secrets Radio and much more.
In the midst were references back to the 24 September Gillmor Gang where iPodder, podcasting, Adam and the new radio platform were mentioned, plus Evil Genius Chronicles, a blog/podcast home where (among many other things) Dave Slusher corrects errors he hears on the Gillmor Gang.
At one point I paused to re-read Steve Gillmor's If RSS Ain't Broke..., which makes sense of what's actually happening here, which is the emergence of a whole new form of broadcasting that's DIY in the Xtreme.
The key virtue of traditional radio is its immediacy: the fact that it's live. They key virtue of this new breed of radio is that it's Net-native. That is, it's archived in a way that can be listened to at the convenience of the listener, and (this is key) that it can be linked to by others, and enclosed in an RSS feed.
It's because of that last feature that Adam could create iPodder, which automatically routes a podcast to an iPod (it's what Adam calls "an iPod filling station"). Note, as I said Sunday, that this does not need to be limited to iPods. iPodder is just one implementation that addresses the device that has become the modern equivalent of the transistor radio (the first truly personal portable radios, which not coincidentally made rock & roll happen in the 50s and 60s).
What matters is that all the standards we're working with here are open. They're the new and growing infrastructure for a new class of 'casting. It won't replace old-fashioned broadcasting, just as FM didn't replace AM, and TV didn't replace radio. And it's not narrowcasting, which is conceived as broadcasting for fewer people. It's podcasting. I'll create an acronym for it: Personal Option Digital 'casting.
(Should we call it PODcasting, then, to make it clear that we're talking about a category and not one company's product? Let's try.)
PODcasting will shift much of our time away from an old medium where we wait for what we might want to hear to a new medium where we choose what we want to hear, when we want to hear it, and how we want to give everybody else the option to listen to it as well.
I hesitate to promote it, because, as Adam points out, the NAB — National Association of Broadcasters — is one of the most powerful lobbying organizations on Earth: far more influential, even, than the RIAA. (For more about that, and other alternatives to traditional radio, read Scott Woolley's Broadcast Bullies, at Forbes.) And the day will come, perhaps soon, when commercial broadcasters, and perhaps even NPR affiliates, will feel threatened by personal podcasting.
So what the hell. Let's bring it on.
Meanwhile, a big thanks to Adam, Dave, and the other pioneers making this thing happen.
Also a plug for Ogg Vorbis, which Adam mentioned, but needs to pay more attention to (hint, hint). Ogg has been waiting around for something like this to happen, for waaay too long.
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London
When they gonna stop blow everything?
London
Police have carried out a controlled explosion on a vehicle at the hospital treating a suspect in the attack on Scotland's busiest airport. Officers also made a fifth arrest in the airport attack and a foiled car bomb plot in London.
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I've got it
I've got it!
Bullshit
Sorry but you are discussing bullshit
As one clever
As one clever person said the judgement transforms tragical hedonism.
Interesting
Interesting opinion. But IMHO it's just an opinion.
Transcribe your podcasts...
This is directed towards podcast creators rather than listeners.Creation of quality podcasts is well and good but it makes no sense if the major search engines do not index them.To enable search engines to crawl your podcast content,get it transcribed by a good podcast transcription company .Keep the transcribed content of podcast along with the podcast link.Such a transcribed copy will also be useful to deaf users...
My experience
I have great experience in that. So I can understand...
Anyway
Anyway I think that the author is right.
DS
http://deafsoundradio.headplug.com
Linguistic
The autor has very good linguistic skills
Re: You seem confused
Yeah, I also noticed that
You seem confused
You seem confused. Anything wrong?
To All
I think we have a lot of to think about guys...
I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry. Post that you have deleted was mine.
I love the way you write
I love the way you write. It's no wonder you have so many people reading your blog.
How many people new to linux
How many people new to linux know the term newbie?
Newbie has also got a lot of negative connotations both for
the person recieving the epitaph and the person using it.
The hacker community is filled with a lot of personality
disorder people some with high functioning autism and
some just plain nasty. I find it a curious paradox that so
many people who are bad at socialising have created the
greatest technological break through in socialising since the
telephone, anyone like to hazard a guess as to why that is?
Peace Jim :)
http://jimbailey.org.uk
Manners
Submitted by rblee on Sun, 01/15/2006 - 11:39.
To be honest, I'd say it's still around in abundance. The big
difference is that there are a lot of sites around that address
this problem - Witness TUX magazine, about which I'm
sure you know plenty.
In my experience, there is a clash between people who
know enough to know how to find things out, and those
who haven't got that far yet. Whereas the old hands
obviously find it annoying to have their forums "polluted"
with loads of basic questions that have already been
answered somewhere, on the other hand, it isn't much help
to tell the questioner to look through the various forums
when there are dozens of them, all with thousands of
postings, and when the forum has a search facility that
could've been designed by Tomás de Torquemada
himself.
If you want an example of some real badasses in action,
one of the Linux media player forums (mplayer from
memory, but if I'm wrong then I wholeheartedly apologise)
seems to be a vehicle whose sole purpose is the abuse of
anyone less knowlegable than the developers.
You can see examples of this in Linux Journal - a month or
so ago someone (ESR, again from memory) wrote an
article on one of the scripting languages, Python, Ruby, or
similar. The ensuing deluge of artless comments not only
demonstrated how dumb some smart people can be, but
also how humourless. If you go back further you'll find the
equivalent about the afore mentioned media player, which
has the added spice of key players from the respective rival
players leaving their own forums for a bit of street fighting in
LJ's hallowed pages which, if it had any effect at all, was
most likely to have newbie Linux users heading straight
back to Windows.
You can even see it here. You confused "immoral" with
"amoral" in one of your postings. Now it may be that the
people who felt that this was ignorance rather than a typo
and thus felt it reasonable to publicly educate you would do
the same thing face to face with anyone who offended their
linguistic sensibilities, but the truth is that too much of this in
a bar would get them a smack in the mouth, which is why
it's seldom done in real life (I'm not, of course, suggesting
that you're the kind of person who goes around assaulting
people in bars... :)
I see it as a descriptor of the kind of experience an
individual looks for from Linux (or any other OS, for that
matter). Some like the feeling that they're doing something
that few other people can, or can be bothered to,
accomplish, and lose no time in Gunga Dinning those who
are different. Others like to spread the joy.
Perhaps we should all try to write online in the same
manner as we communicate in person - If a comment is not
something that someone would say face to face, then
they're hiding behind a modem, with all that implies.
Frankly, I think Linux needs all the advocates it can get,
because the world needs more FLOSS, not less.
All IMHO, of course.
Cheers,
Roger.
Oh, I forgot the ultimate example: http://www.osnews.com
- If you're feeling cold, just visit there and warm your hands
against the flames.
Eugen
i have visited osnews.com and i feel me warm :D
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Los Angeles- March 15, 2005--Guerrilla Marketing International and Jackstreet Media announced details of an agreement aimed at commercializing podcasting. Under the agreement, the alliance will sponsor five conferences aimed at bringing together the business, marketing and media expertise required to use podcasting as a viable, profitable business channel. The conference is part of the Guerrilla Marketing Business University Tour. Sessions will be held in Orlando, Las Vegas, San Francisco New Orleans and Vancouver. Each event will focus on podcasting’s possibilities as a media business, a brand building tool, a marketing and business development tool and a sales channel. One approach that will be explored is called nanocasting, a form of Internet radio that encompasses podcasting, but is profit-driven, e-commerce enabled and uses multiple approaches to hyper-target the right commercial audience.
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New Podcasting Alliance Books Five City Tour to Commercialize Internet Radio
Podcasters and marketers come together with eyes on the bottomline
Los Angeles- March 15, 2005--Guerrilla Marketing International and Jackstreet Media announced details of an agreement aimed at commercializing podcasting. Under the agreement, the alliance will sponsor five conferences aimed at bringing together the business, marketing and media expertise required to use podcasting as a viable, profitable business channel. The conference is part of the Guerrilla Marketing Business University Tour. Sessions will be held in Orlando, Las Vegas, San Francisco New Orleans and Vancouver. Each event will focus on podcasting’s possibilities as a media business, a brand building tool, a marketing and business development tool and a sales channel. One approach that will be explored is called nanocasting, a form of Internet radio that encompasses podcasting, but is profit-driven, e-commerce enabled and uses multiple approaches to hyper-target the right commercial audience.
Presenters will include Jay Conrad Levinson, the founder of Guerrilla Marketing and author of the best-selling marketing series, "Guerrilla Marketing," plus 24 other business books and Errol St. Clair Smith, Emmy Award winning reporter at KTLA, radio talk show host and founder of Jackstreet Media-- a company that has been developing and market-testing Internet radio business models since 1999. Other speakers will discuss key business and financial issues.
“With the right knowhow, podcasting can be the quintessential Guerrilla Marketing channel. We co-developed our Guerrilla Marketing Radio pilot with Jackstreet Media and
are pleased with the initial results. We now see a variety of very effective business applications and look forward to expanding our work with Errol and his team to develop the new media models, tools and guerrilla marketing strategies made possible by this technology.
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I don't want to choose my music
Podcasting is quite exciting, but I am certainly not interested in "choosing what I want to hear, when I want to hear it," blah blah. Radio for me--and I realize that I have been fortunate to have been exposed to some amazingly good radio stations--has always turned me on to great new music which I otherwise probably would never have heard. This for me is the most entertaining and useful function of good music radio. We all know today how terribly narrow and unlistenable commercial corporate radio has become, and most of us are not lucky enough to live within range of a good college station. So what I hope podcasting will provide, among other things, is shows of great new music which cannot be heard elsewhere, perhaps chosen by DJs and aficionados like the late John Peel and others.
P.S. If anyone knows of any good podcasts of what might be termed "indie rock," please post your suggestions here. Thanks!
KEXP
KEXP.org
one of the best, plus links to a lot more ...
http://beatoracle.net
a friend's radio show on kcsb fm 91.9 in santa barbara, ca. you should see a link to subscribe at the top.
Podcasting variety
What I find the most amazing about podcasting is how much variety there is. Within just a couple of months, there are already hundreds of podcasts. I'm trying to put together a podcast directory, and it's tough to keep up already!
The best thing about this is that listeners can take control of what they listen to.
Newspaper readership has been in decline for several years, because corporate ownership has led to a bland sameness, and other alternatives, such as web news sources and blogs, provide alternatives. Don't be surprised if podcasting has the same effect on radio.
Podcasting is not just for Audioblogs
From further down - It seems like the creators of Podcasting are reserving it for audioblog type audio
It looks that way now because the people who have got it up and running are from that field.
As it develops, more and more radio staions that already stream mp3 audio will come on board.
Today I have added my weekly 60 minute blues show
http://www.bfbs2.com/rss.xml
and if it works well I will gradually add the other programmes that I make.
We live in exciting times.
Dave
This for me
This for me is the most entertaining and useful function of good music radio. We all know today how terribly narrow and unlistenable commercial corporate radio has become, and most of us are not lucky enough to live within range of a good college station. So what I hope podcasting will provide, among other things, is shows great new music which cannot be heard elsewhere.
How to pod cast
Hey Dave, I've got a technical question for you. I'm interested in starting a pod cast sports program and need to kinow the technical points to make it happen. Any chance you can help me.
Alpha
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Me
I personally am quite happy having it stick around -- and would probably be just as happy having a copy of everything I hear -- not just on the radio, but pretty much all day, especially if my secretary would ID3-tag it. Disks are big, MP3s are small, and sometimes I go back and blog about things within clips I've listened to in recent days.
In any case, for one who likes streaming: a future version of iPodder will, I'm sure, allow Preferences to be set so that an item is automagically deleted after you finish listening to it and/or after it's been downloaded for 30+ days etc.
Google results
Today on 10/7/2004 it now pulls 1,350 links.
I think this is growing.
More Google Results...
21 Dec 2004
205,000 results for podcasts.
11 Jul 2005 - Just a tad over
11 Jul 2005 - Just a tad over 9 million.
02 October 2005:
02 October 2005:
Results 1 - 10 of about 61,400,000 for podcasts.
podcast hockeystick
12 October 2005
Results 1 - 10 of about 70,500,000 for podcasts.
It took 10 months, from 28 sep 2004 to 11 july 2005, to get to 9 million results. It has now taken 10 days, from 2 oct to 12 oct 2005 to get 9 million additional results.
Quite a hockeystick!
iTunes
Just wait: Apple will nick the iPodder idea and package it up into a new release of iTunes next year. It'll be Konfabulator for 2005...
Small Paul
www.pauldwaite.co.uk
Woah! How right was I?
EXTREMELY RIGHT.
College Radio
Working with a radio station on a college campus, this is one medium that seems almost conceived to maintain our relevance in an iPod(ded) world (certainly an iPodded campus). We're teched out enough to handle an audio RSS service... does anyone know a convention broadcast station that has struck out onto the RSSwaves with something like this?
Cameron Nordholm
Station Manager, KRLX-FM
"It's better on the bottom"
quoted on Engadget
Doc,
Hi, we met at the first bloggercon back in 2003. Just wanted you to know that you are mentioned in engadget today.
bhavesh
veshman.com
Podcasting
My $0.02...I think a name for this, which is more descriptive of what is actually going on, would be preferable. Having said that, I realize I need to take a stab at it and all I can come up with is 'mediacasting', which isn't great either but seems to describe it a bit better (imho).
The Linux Show != podcast
The Linux Show will be a podcast when I can subscribe to an RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures and have it automagically downloaded each week instead of having to hit the web site, and click a link to get it...
(And yes, I think 'podcasting' not 'PODcasting' is correct.
Terms
Guys, Doc and I had an email exchange and all is well. I actually saw his point better after having heard him explain it on the Linux show, although I still didn't see the need for the acronym. From my perspective, as one of the group of people working our asses off developing the tools of this platform and putting out podcasts for people to enjoy, I didn't think we needed the term retooled for us. We as a community decided we liked it and we all jointly started popularizing it. The iPodder-dev mailing list is a remarkably ego-free and fun place, and a lot of good work and thought is happening there. Dannie Gregoire was the person who first used the term, followed by a few dozen "Right ons!" from folks who loved it. The rest, as they say, is history.
As for the Linux Show and podcast, I decided to do a good deed. Point your iPodders at http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/audio/thelinuxshow.rss . It's got the last four shows and I'll add to it as new ones come down. It wasn't technically a podcast, but it only took me a few minutes to make it one. That is the absolute beauty of this platform.
"POD"casting
Let's leave it "podcasting". I agree with the Evil Genius, the acronym is a strap on!
Podcasting
Yeah, leave any acronyms to those who knew what podcasting was before last weekend.
Ogg Vorbis
Ogg Vorbis is another one of those technologies I feel we're waiting for. Software has to support it, and more importantly devices have to support it. People buy MP3 players, not Ogg players. What to do?
Ogg Vorbis
I have seen more and more support for ogg in recent releases of audio software for Microsoft. It is slowly catching on as a standard. We will see more hardware supporting ogg in the future hopefully!!