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• The Business Models of Water As a follow-up to How to Build a Business from Podcasting I thought I’d share this with you: There’s a case of Ice Mountain bottled water in my kitchen (the extra big case from CostCo). There’s also 2 Brita pitchers in my fridge and 4 Nalgene bottles - of different sizes - in the cupboard. The
• iTunes 4.9 with Podcasting, First Impressions The new iTunes 4.9 supporting podcasts is out today, it will do wonders for increasing the visibility of the most popular podcasts and radio station-produced podcasts. This is definitely the easiest way to subscribe to a podcast, whether browsing or manually. Until iTMS URL linking is functional, it’s a two step process to subscribe to
• RSS Feeds Replacing CDs - It’s Starting A while back I pondered RSS feeds replacing Compact Discs as the primary way to receive music from your favorite artists. As I mentioned in that post: “With a podcast, musicians can release whatever they’d like, whenever they’d like; demo tracks, rough tracks, experiments, final edits, interviews, conversations about the song writing process, anything their fans would
• 20th Century Phonecasters “To listen to the music, a subscriber had merely to sit beside the telephone and hold the receiver to his ear.” - Popular Science, September 1933
• Save for Later Because I think albums of music and podcasts are very similar and I see both them very different from radio. Unlike Dave, I don’t want my podcasts automatically deleted, I would like the ‘Save’ or ‘Delete’ option just as I do on Tivo. The iPod/iTunes assumes everything is precious (it’s not), automatically deleting assumes nothing