[Hidden-tech] Re: Query on podcasts

[Tish Grier]

  Depending on the type and kind of music that you do, a podcast *can* be a good thing.But, like a blog, you have to keep up with it in order to keep interest in what you are doing.  If you look at MySpace.com, there are several bands that have downloadable material and combine their MP3's/Podcasts with their blogs.  They keep the audience with the blog and use the 'casts to stimulate interest in their music.  
   
  The key may be to maintaining an audience via blog then having an occasional Podcast.
  
BTW, there are a few NPR shows that are podcasted., and podcasts will be very helpful to people doing certain kinds of citizen journalism.
   
  Podcasting is new and there is lots and lots of push to use the new medium.  However, not alot of people are really doing it (there's no big rush to get into it, really, unless you are a super-geek) and there are alot of legal issues surrounding it that haven't been tested.  These issues--having to do, at the moment, with broadcasting playlists--may eventually be solved in Congress.  Right now, all of podcasting is unregulated, so individuals, unless doing a totally talk-based, personal podcast, could possibly encounter legal stuff in the future--think Napster.
  
The push to get people using podcasting is that music companies would like to kill it.  If interested, check out this presentation by Derek Slater, who is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Cyber Law at Harvard (who I saw last week before the paper was published)
   
   http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=879
   
  Tish Grier
  Editor, Corante Media Hub  
  Blogger/Writer
  http://spap-oop.blogspot.com
   
  P.S.: podcasts are NOT meant to be used solelly for making commercials for products.  They may be helpful in promoting a product or business, but their use is a great deal broader than that, as it is both a broadcast and social media form.  Right now, if you try to promote a product with a podcast, you might get alot of hits, but unless you are willing to do more than talk about what you are selling, there is the risk of losing the audience.  
  



Matt Lampiasi <mattl at florenceit.net> wrote:
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There's a tech company in the Berkshires who publishes one, and who is 
on this list if I recall correctly, hopefully we'll hear from him. 
(Can't recall the name).

I have toyed with the idea of publishing a few, since I am musician when 
I'm not working for a living, and I have the necessary home studio 
equipment. I just haven't seen the need for the market I'm in.

As an end user, we've had the ability to grab audio news and books on 
our PDA's for a few years now. I'm not sure why Podcasting is so popular 
now?!, Maybe its just the masses who HAVEN'T been exposed to this via 
their pda's? It IS handy to listen rather than read, and right to my 
inbox if I choose.

-- 
Thanks,

Matt Lampiasi CNE,MCP
413-303-9167 or http://florenceit.net
Florence I.T. - A community I.T. shop.


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