Podcasting - More Blip than Boom

http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6058398.html

Podcasts are to bloggers what MySpace sites are to teens: All the cool kids have one. So Forrester probably expected a big reaction with a new report that claims podcasts are not exactly taking the wired world by storm.

As a podcast host, I tend to believe that there will be a slow uptake in listeners as opossed to there being a blip.  The reaction I get from people is "Podcast? WTF is that."  Now, the tech savy crowd gets what podcasts are, but the vast majority of people don't.

4 Comments

  • Hey Wally,



    Actually What exactly are they?



    I assume they are just using RSS to link to Audio feeds you can listen to on a mobile device after downloading?



    Is that all?



    I have heard the term for the last two years myself....On weblogs.asp.net, blogs.msdn.com, from people I met when I went to last years PDC in LA.



    No one has every actually blogged about what it is?

  • yeah, thats pretty much all that they are. There are tons of variations on the them, but thats about it.

  • I think with the likes of ITunes having a "Podcasts" section they will become more popular amoungs the unwashed masses. But PodCasts will just be "Downloadable Radio" to most people.



    Here the main radio station (BBC Radio1) has a podcast of the morning show every day - that's popularising the terminoligy, but it's a bit different to the backroom podcasters :-)

  • I don't care what anyone says, I find yours and the dozen other podcasts I listen to help keep me up to date with subjects I don't have time to read. Keep rev'n it up!

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