Random Articles

• Podcasting’s Image Problem I’m finally getting around to listening to the sessions I missed at last fall’s Podcast and Portable Media Expo. While there, all the sessions felt like we were prepping for a boom. Everyone looking for how to hit the mother lode. Seven months later, listening to the sessions, that suspicion is confirmed. The tone, pitch,
• Something New In the Air Two of my favorite people are starting new podcast projects in the next week. Kris Smith formerly of Croncast will be launching Life in the Can next Friday, still with Betsy on the other mic. Dave Slusher is launching the Reality Break podcast a couple days later. Both projects are aiming to be more sponsorship-friendly than their preceding
• Sturgeon’s Law  I haven’t done one of these in a while. I don’t even know if it’s any good or not.
• RSS Feeds to Replace CDs To this point, musicians need to press bits of plastic (records, CDs) each time they want to share music with their fans. This means, enough music has to be ready to make pressing bits of plastic worth the cost. These bits of plastic are then shipped at an additional cost to stores where hopefully the
• The Problems with Podcast Directories I had a great lunch with Paul Cantrell today at Sushi Tango. Oh, and if you need an idea for lunch, ask Paul. He listed off a half-dozen other places that sounded just as fantastic. One of the many things we discussed was the problem of podcast ratings and categorization - i.e. the problem of finding