“We invented podcasting,” said Todd Cochrane, who hosts his own podcast known as “Geek News Central” out of his home in Honolulu. “The people who are coming in now are jumping over the fence and joining the party. It’s funny how Apple is so focused on the commercial shows and how little they are emphasizing […]
Homespun ‘Podcasts’ Explore a Universe of TopicsAndy Sullivan, Reuters, April 10, 2005:Like the World Wide Web 10 years ago, many podcasts rely on homespun charm rather than slick presentation. Anybody with a computer and a microphone can set up their own show. Several radio stations have developed podcasts of their own, typically condensed versions of […]
Survey: Millions tuning in to ‘podcasts’The home-brewed audio programs known as “podcasts” are catching on with people who own iPods or other digital-music players, according to a survey released Sunday.Twenty-nine percent of U.S. adults who own MP3 players like Apple Computer Inc.’s iPod say they have downloaded podcast programs from the Internet, the Pew Internet […]
Podcasting puts you in charge of the show
D. Parvaz, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 25, 2005:What kind of stuff is out there and what can you create? An oral blog — it’s your life, in sound files, baby… Podcasting ain’t for everyone. You may find yourself drowning in the sea of voices out there. You can’t hear […]
John Edwards Posts First ‘Podcast’Kim Rubey, One America Committee/U.S. Newswire, March 23, 2005:In the podcast, Sen. Edwards was joined by his wife, Elizabeth, and they talked about their work in the fight against poverty and also answered questions that had been submitted to his blog and via email. The topics they discussed ranged from possible […]
Bloggers, Meet the Pod People,
Leslie Walker, The Washington Post, March 9, 2005:Topics range as widely as human conversation — political rants, religious sermons dubbed Godcasts, musical mixes, kitchen gossip and barroom chatter called beercasts. A few big corporations have experimented with podcasts, including one General Motors recorded at a Chicago auto show. While home […]
Internet Radio 101, Heather Green, Business Week Online, March 7, 2005:The quality of most of the 3,500 podcasts now available is all over the map. And because they’re based on individual interests, they can dip into arcane topics or music that perhaps only people with similar tastes will appreciate. But that’s their beauty — they […]
Dining-room DJs find forum in podcasting, Adam Geller, The Herald-Sun, March 5, 2005:Podcasting, as it’s called, doesn’t require expensive broadcast licenses or radio towers. Most home computers come equipped with everything necessary: a microphone and a recording program. Add an Internet connection, and the recipe is complete…This content delivery structure is fundamentally different from traditional […]
The New Radio Revolution, Heather Green, Tom Lowry, and Catherine Yang, Business Week, March 3, 2005:For all the hullabaloo it’s generating, podcasting is not even close to being a business yet… Maybe a few will come up with a way to make a living doing it. Maybe not. Regardless, a trend is afoot that could […]
Radio Days for Everyman, Heather Green, BusinessWeek Online, March 3, 2005:That enthusiasm goes a long way to explain why podcasting has created so much excitement. It allows people to thumb through an exploding treasure trove of shows and find exactly the right one for them, no matter how off the wall it might be. That […]