Posted on April 13, 2005 9:29 am by Shel Holtz | Podcasting
Podcasting naysayers are pointing to admissions by the Pew Internet and American Life Project that it inflated the number of people listening to podcasts. Now, however, Forrester Research—another institution whose research is generally accepted at face value—has estimated that podcasting and satellite radio will grow through the rest of the decade with 32.4 million US households listening in.
An article in Internet Week cites…
Posted on April 11, 2005 8:09 am by Shel Holtz | Podcasting
On its site and via press release, TVEyes—a company that lets customers search radio and TV recordings by keyword—announced the launch of Podscope, a search engine designed specifically for podcasts. The company claims it’s the first search engine of its kind, but I’m not sure of the truth of that statement, given the capabilities of search engines like 49Media. Still, Podscope should be useful given…
Posted on April 6, 2005 3:58 pm by Shel Holtz | Podcasting
I’m catching up on podcasts that have been backing up on my DMP (digital media player—my own TLA). I was struck by the number of podcasts that have referenced a controversy that has been growing ever since Pod Prince Adam Curry and his partner, Ron Bloom, launched BoKu Communications and PodShow, BoKu’s first offering.
The gist of the outcry is this: “Don’t let money corrupt…
Posted on April 4, 2005 10:07 am by Shel Holtz | Podcasting
In less than an hour, Neville and I will record the next installment of For Immediate Release. One of the issues we’ll discuss is a post from Darren Barefoot’s blog titled, “Why I’m Not Smoking the Podcasting Dope.”
Barefoot is a “writer, technologist and marketer who lives in Vancouver, Canada,” according to his site. He raises enough issues—compounded by comments to the post—that I wanted to think through my…
Posted on March 25, 2005 10:04 am by Shel Holtz | Podcasting
Dave Winer is one of my heroes; has been for a long time. He pretty much invented blogs (his Scripting News is the oldest and longest-running blog on the Net) and RSS, and had a huge hand in the development of podcasting. And he’s been around longer than that, taking a rebel approach to programming that has led to several innovations we…
Posted on March 21, 2005 9:43 am by Shel Holtz | Podcasting
On one of last week’s installments of “For Immediate Release,” Neville and I kicked around the idea of video podcasting. Today, Om Malik reports that a product has been launched that lets you use the brand-spanking-new Sony PSP to do just that.
The Sony PSP, the Game Boy-killer handheld gaming system available in stores this week, is configured to play music and videos in…
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