Holtz Communications + Technology

It seems like such a great boon for podcasting. KYOU is the new San Francisco-based radio station, owned by Infinity, that is broadcasting podcasts. While it’s not podcasting (as PodcastNYC’s host Rob points out), the exposure ceertainly can’t hurt can when listeners who don’t know what podcasting is tune in. However, a press release from the International Nanocasting Alliance warns that the small print in…

I’ve said for years—and I’ve said it here—that new media do not kill old media. Instead, it forces the old media to adapt. Television didn’t kill radio, but radio stopped broadcasting the kind of content that was better suited to television and began presenting material that was better served by an audio-only format.

So I don’t believe for a minute that newspapers are on their way out. Yes,…

Thanks to Trevor Cook for pointing to this excellent resource, a listing of public radio podcast feeds.

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…

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…

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…