Matt May is a Web accessibility specialist, and has written on the interaction of people and technology since 1995. He keeps his own weblog at bestkungfu.com, and produces a podcast called Staccato, which features Creative Commons-licensed music.
Alex Williamsblogs, consults and produces unconference style events, where people immerse in DIY media. These are fun occasions, designed for people who want to get together with authors, artists, technologists and leading thinkers to converse, eat, listen to music, write, shoot photos and post podcasts and videoblogs. Alex also works with companies to establish DIY approaches, where writing, photography, voice and video come together to create new conversations and communities. Alex is currently fascinated with digital photography. His girlfriend calls him a Flickrholic. Send Alex a nice message: alexhwilliams at gmail.com.
Nicole Simon loves blogging and podcasting, dashed with an European view. As consultant she helps to facilitate such tools for business purposes or personal publishing empires. She can be found at cruel to be kind and on her private blog Useful Sounds.
Roland Tanglao is a well known podcasting enthusiast and a passionate advocate of blogs, RSS, and social software as a means of online expression for people, organizations and businesses. He is a prominent participant in the blogosphere and online communities and one of the founders of Bryght and as Bryght's Chief Blogging Officer reads hundreds of blogs daily. He graduated from the University of Waterloo, worked at Nortel Networks where he ran its first internal corporate blog, has has been blogging since 1999, and was the first business blogging consultant in Canada.
The planet of podcast paraphernalia is not apt to be particularly profitable. (No, I really didn't mean to be that alliterative, but thanks for thinking about me.) We're not apt to see big hardware companies pouring millions into R&D, for example, to get us that perfect portable rig, because the market doesn't exist, at least for the time being. But at the same time, I'm seeing signs that perhaps things are moving in our direction, and some people are marketing right at DIY podcast producers.
For one thing, the maker of the de-facto flagship products are showing that adding podcast functionality was not just a throwaway feature. Apple, who from what I see has made quite a few improvements to the iTunes podcasting interface, has also been tweaking the firmware now found in the newest iPod (known variously as "5G", "video iPod", and "white"). On the recording side, the iPod's artificial limitation of 8kHz, 8-bit audio has been raised to a healthy CD-quality stereo (though a microphone that actually enables such recording apparently has yet to exist). And Todd Ogasawara notes the addition of new-podcast indicators in the 5G iPod interface, as well as on the iPod nano. Sounds like they listened to the customer -- or perhaps became podcast listeners themselves, and experienced their own frustrations. Either way, good work.
More interestingly, one of my preferred pushers of electronic crack specifically targeting the casual podcaster. Musician's Friend, online partner to the dangerously-halfway-between-work-and-home Guitar Center, now has a podcasters section, featuring a range of p-popping, knob-twiddling goodness, repackaged just for you.
We're not quite to the point where Best Buy has a podcasting software section, of course, but I have to believe that at least a few marketing departments have the wheels turning, and we could be seeing a shift from podcasting-as-hack to podcasting-as-feature. Just imagine, not far from now, a selection of software for which something like valid RSS or MP3 compression isn't just a selling point, but so common that it's not worth mentioning.
Following on Matt's thread about rock star podcasters, here's another to add to the list: Poison drummer Rikki Rockett. Here's what he posted at MySpace about what he may possibly discuss:
"O.K., so what will I talk about? After all, I have to fill this Podcast thing with some kind of content, right. So, what do you expect? Some babbling rock-star jerk-off, obsessed with strip club boobs, and using a vocabulary chiefly made up of words like fuck and dude and expressions like, 'What the fuck-ever dude?' Or… I could be one of those pseudo-intellectual-wanna-be rocker types. You know, like how Gene Simmons is now, appearing on things like CNN to talk about… um, sorry, I don't remember. But, I'm sure it involved sex somewhere along the line.
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Sounds like a rock star podcast. And more...
"I do have a few ideas, though. How about one Dr. Rockett question. Play a song or two from an unsigned band. Talk about one current issue and bring a guest on to help with it. And, ask some guy, in some bar a super serious question about something while he is drunk."
Hi My Name Is Mark is the podcast of Mark Hoppus, who was one-third of punk band Blink-182. Mark is up to episode 4, and spinning some of the bands he knows and likes.
Channel 7 in New York, an ABC affiiliate, has started a video podcast.
New York and Chicago affiliates are the only ABC affilliates doing podcasts. ABC affiliates doing audio podcasts include Houston, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Gothamist makes a good point about Disney, which owns ABC. It's no fun to be the last to the party:
... Disney, ABC's parent company, is the first out the gate with paid digital content through iTunes thanks to its deal with Apple. The Mouse House was, however, the last company to move over to the DVD format years back, and it looks as though they are trying not to be last to the party again.
Is there a move toward scholars both past and present as the archived voices, the new intellectual strata of the podcast universe? And, why did Stanford go with iTunes? I know Harvard is into OPML. Hmmm...Any thoughts on this one?
I just saw this over at the Daily Wireless. Canon is coming out with a wifi camera for $500. See how easy video podcasting is going to be?
I started doing short video takes on my digital camera this past week: Kung Fu Judy and West Hills Cruise. It was so dang fun. These days, it's alll plug and play. What I did was pretty crude. With a good camera and some of the video blogging packages available, you can be shooting a lot of video and turning them into podcasts or videoblogs, whatever you wish to call it. And with the Canon, you can go online, which I think I still need some time to grok. Display a live webcast? Hmmm.. Hey, where's the phone?
Podcastercon gives a good vibe, doesn't it? The registration is up. I'd love to go to this one. Look, they'll even help you find a place to stay. That's my kind of conference.
The conference is at the University of North Carolina. Hmmm...I wonder what they'll discuss?
I like this part. You can listen to their planning sessions. Smart.
Here are the essentials:
What: PodcasterCon 2006
Where: 116 Murphey Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
When: Saturday, January 7, 2006 11am - 4pm
More: See www.podcastercon.org
Do you remember music appreciation class? I yawn just thinking about those days in high school sitting through those lectures. Man, I wish I had podcasting and teachers like Chris Paschen and Bruce Bodelson.
The Minneapolis high school teachers found the text book just didn't hold the student's interest. So they decided to start podcasting:
"Although we're following a brand-new music appreciation book that is meant for high school, it doesn't hold or captivate their interest all that much," Bodelson said. "And I'd been reading about podcasting in the newspapers and thinking, wow, that has to be the wave of the future, when a janitor from Glasgow, Scotland, can assemble a huge following just because he has an interest in local rock bands and puts them on his podcast -- and all of a sudden people from all over the world are dialing this guy up."
Students create two different kinds of podcasts. They podcast live recordings and do radio talk shows, featuring individual performances. The idea is for students to use the vocabulary they are learning in the music appreciation class in analyzing the music in the shows. They also get to say what they want in a show that is put up on the Internet for anyone to hear. How cool must that be for those students?
I like what this student said:
Back at the North High band's website, student Conner Vail is segueing out of a Modest Mouse song and into his spiel: "Is it just me," he asks, "or does anyone else feel that pop culture is completely shallow, vapid, materialistic and morally bankrupt?"
Libsyn, a popular hosting service for podcasters, went down on Monday after Hurricane Wilma shot out the power at one of their Florida data centers. From Libsyn's Dave Mansueto on the Yahoo! Podcasting group:
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ibsyn.com has been affected by Hurricane Wilma. Our datacenters are in Florida, and apparently the power outage there has brought us down. We are investigating as to why backup generators and other
precautions did not prevent this outage. As soon as we know something we will let you know.We are sorry for the inconvenience,
Podcasting is inspiring educators who continue to note it as one of the most innovative technologies they have seen in a long time.
Just take a look at what's happening at the University of Washington , where a pilot podcast program is getting off to a fast start. Three classes are being podcast. So far this quarter, there have been 719 downloads, enough interest for the university to consider expanding podcasting to more classes.
I found this statement noteworthy:
And the new recording and distribution method is a good thing for Classroom Support Services too, according to project director David Aldrich. "Videotaping a lecture uses a lot of resources," he said. "You have to have someone present to tape the lecture, then do post-production."
Video is still tricky. But why do you need to watch a professor talking? I could see screencasts as a far better tool for professors if they sought ways to illustrate their lectures.
How will universities use podcasting as it spreads in interest? Will students be allowed to attend class when and where they want?
At the University of Washington, podcasting lectures are meant as a supplement for students, not as a replacement. For now, to get the class room interaction, you still have to go to class.
It's evident that podcasting is changing how educators view how they teach. Language learning services are picking up on the trend and in the process, showing the first examples of podcasting as a premium service.
I ran across an article in Asia Times Online about ALC Press Inc., a company in Japan that is teaching conversational english to students by using podcatching services. The cost comes to about $86 per year.
In ALC's new service, the student will pay a monthly study fee. The student will also purchase a study book that includes the necessary software for "podcatching", the process used to download new podcast feed files.
Here's how it works.
The teacher poses questions to the student by talking on the phone to a server on the Internet. The spoken question is converted into an audio file and stored. When the student executes the podcatching software, the file is automatically downloaded. The student listens to the question and answers via phone to the same server. The teacher listens to the response in the same way by using the podcatching software.
Here are some more podcasting in education sources from gada.be.
Check out today's op-ed from Tom Friedman (if you have NYTimes Select) for commentary on China's podcasting scene:
Unlike earlier techno-media revolutions, which began in the West and moved East, the podcasting revolution is going to explode everywhere at once, thanks to the Web and free technology tools. That's why the next phase of globalization is not going to be more Americanization, but more "glocalization" - more and more local content made global.
Germany is not so much a land of the bloggers, but they sure like Wikipedia and eBay. It is said, that 50% of Germans going online use eBay for about 3 hours each month.
Those nearly 17 million visitors a month need help and support. While ebay does have a market place with help files, forums and more, eBay Germany started another service for their users: a weekly audio magazin which they also promote as a podcast. It is in German, but you get an idea of the way they do the show through listening a bit.
The first episode contains information like news, legal, tips, short interviews with management and a powerseller, as well as a competition to win a ebay package. A feedback mail address and online help on how to receive this magazin as a podcast will get a lot of people interested into "this podcast thing".
This clearly is a "customer relation ship" podcast with value for eBay's customers, but also for other business oriented podcasters as a showcase.
Xfm, a London alternative radio station, is teaming with a UK indie label to create a podcast of full length tracks.
Here's how they are working this out. The label, V2, provides Xfm with exclsuive tracks for podcasts from Elbow, a band under the V2 label. The podcast includes as excerpts from an interview with lead singer Guy Garvey.
KEXP out of Seattle has been doing podcasts for several months, featuring in studio recordings and a show with tracks from different bands.
Seems to make sense that labels would be all over getting their musicians into podcasts.
With the intro of the new video iPod, Apple now has a market reason to promote how to make video podcasts or as they have been called for months...video blogs. Here's a video podcast tutorial Apple recently posted. Read the comments over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog for perspective.
Here's another resource. It's called freevlog.org.Ryanne Hodson and Michael Verdi, two pioneering videobloggers, show what you need to know to make a videoblog at a minimum cost, minus of course, the expense of a camera. They show you how to make a videoblog on a Mac or PC. They go through screen captures, hosting, publishing, RSS feeds and how to get into the community.
Have you seen any videoblogs? I started watching the videobloggers a few months ago. Videoblogs are real entertainment. Many are quite artistic. They're wholly different than podcasts. Here are some places to find videoblogs as well as community sites available where vloggers congregate. Again, check out Freevlog. I found most of these resources at their site.
Motorola and The Podcast Network just announced a three month partnership. Motorola will not only advertise on the TPN sites and podcasts, but also "offer podcasts with senior Motorola executives on a number of topics from handset design to mobile music".
It is interesting to see that it does not stop by simple advertising:
Motorola intends to use the TPN sponsorship to promote the ROKR, as well as other upcoming handsets, and also to position the edgier side of the Motorola brand. Motorola will give podcast listeners the opportunity to interact with Motorola executives by allowing them to submit their own questions to be posed in upcoming podcasts.
Classical advertisement forms (like for example in radio) do not work as well in podcasting, but this kind of interaction might be a good model for advertising the smart way.
New Corante contributors Roland Tanglao and Nicole Simon join Alex and myself to talk about Yahoo, its new podcast area, how it's doing, and where it's going. We'd talk next week, but it's not like a major corporation just released a new media player, or anything. Maybe we'll just get together and play Texas hold 'em.
With the announcement of Apple's video iPod, are we entering the age of the video podcast? Perhaps in time but now the closest thing to it are videoblogs, which you can subsribe to already through readers like FireAnt.
Better yet, perhaps is the news that iTunes 6.0 is available. Apple will offer music videos, priced at $1.99. Will indies be able to offer music videos? With video, does iTunes 6.0 provide a new way to distribute music?
I am also interested to see that with iTunes you can now gift music, post reviews and make recommendations, which they call "Just For You." I wonder how open this will really be. Yahoo! Podcasts seems to have hit the right note with their new service. I guess we'll see how Apple compares.
Engadget sums up what iTunes 6.0 offer in video:
On the video side they’re launching with 2,000 QVGA formatted FairPlay DRMed music videos which you can pick up for $1.99 apiece, as well as episodes of five ABC series (Lost, Desperate Housewives, Night Stalker, That’s So Raven, The Suite Life), also two bucks a go.
New iPod announced! The new iPod, as speculated, features video capabilities and the wider display, but it’s still a music-first device.
The device will feature a 2.5-inch display, QVGA resolution (320 x 240), and will MPEG-4 h.264 (natch), and presumably Quicktime.
The new iPod will be 30% thinner than the current 20GB iPod (making it 0.44-inches thick—say wha?), and will feature a 60GB version and editions of both in black. The 20GB should go for $299, and the 60GB for $399. They’ll be shipping next week.
Photos from ILounge, taken at the California Theater :
What role did podcasting play in Apple's best ever fourth quarter? What role did it play in helping Apple achieve its best financial results in company history?
I'm convinced that podcasting factored in Apple's record results. But only in that podcasting plays to our desire for individuality and the power we get from making our own media, on our own terms, free from the confines of control and authoritarianism. Free? What does free mean these days? Free podcasts? Is that it for Apple? Instead, it seems that Apple subtly encourages freedom from big media with the iPod as the tool for unshackling us from those bonds. Marketing campaigns celebrate creativity but also subconsciously amplify the whispers that we try to ignore, startling us as we feel society's invisible undertow, pulling at us as we see our own civil liberities and freedoms wash away into a soupy sea of conflicting emotions about war, terror and the monstrous challenges of our daily lives. Apple's success comes from its understanding of how to tap our society's collective need to break free as individuals and express ourselves. They do it with sleak design and music, encouraging us to feel the vibe you can only get with an iPod.
We all find ways to protect our sense of who we are. Apple caters to that desire in their corporate marketing and product strategy. And the results are record earnings. Apple treats the iPod as an aid, a tool, that helps awaken the soul so people may connect with themselves and their world. People may create their own shows. They may listen to whatever they wish, when and where we want.
The recipe seems to work. It appears to be a message that people are desperate to hear.
If you are into daytrading, you might enjoy the Tip of the Day for Day Trading, Swing Trading, and Options Trading from www.daytradeteam.com. Although they are read out loud blog posts, the combination of podcast, blog entry and charts is compelling.
Let's say you are doing a podcast. You are trying to get people to comment about it, bloggers to tell the world about this cool show you are doing. Perhaps it's about your band, The Headless Chickens. You don't seek fame but a little attention would be great.
You know how to search across the web for references and links to your show.
If you have an aggregator, then you can create feeds for Technorati, Google News, etc. You are continually looking at these different feeds, looking for new comments, links, commentary.
Gada.be, the new service introduced today by Chris Pirillo, makes this process quite a bit easier, simplifying your seach across different services and getting the results all in one place. Better, you can search across different sub categories and get the resuts back across the different services.
Now, you can see the value of OPML in a service like Gada.be. Once you get your results, you can import the OPML file into your aggregator. Now, you can track the attention of your band's podcast in one place. Robert Scoble pus it well. What Chris has essentially done is create a mashup from ablout 140 sources.
Gada.be gives us results, lots of resutls with far less searching, And in that way it may emerge into a major reference site, where you can point people to multiple sources, instead of one static web page. I like what the folks at TechCrunch have to say:
It’s likely that Gada will become a much-linked to site for definitive results on a term, in a similar way as wikipedia is today. Gada incorporates all relevant information in a permanent URL, and so becomes a comprehensive result set for a tag link. Gada also outputs search results in RSS and OPML, allowing users to easily subscribe to and organize searches.
The service also makes it easier to search across a mobile device. As Chris states in his blog:
It was borne out of several frustrations. If you've ever tried to visit a Web site over a mobile device, you know it's a pain in the knuckle. The domain had to be simple to key-in from anywhere. gada.be is 4232.2233 on most cell phones and/or PSP. Normally, when you want to find something online, you have to choose a Web site (wait for the page to load) enter the query (wait for the second page to load) then see results from that provider. With "gada.be," you insert the query *AS* the subdomain!
* http://corpse-bride.gada.be/
* http://corpse.bride.gada.be/
Those are two different URLs, each with a different set of results. A dot between two keywords implies a quoted statement, whereas a dash implies the AND operator. Note, too, that you can easily change categories by adding the designated category slug to the end of the entire URL. Too geeky for you? Then you're thinking too hard about it.
The greater implications of Gada.be are to be discovered. I can't access the site right now. Chris is getting a bit of server overload, which I'd say is a good sign.
On a last note,I think that in many ways, bloggers, podcasters, all of us, want attention, a little bit of fame. It makes us feel good.
News of Verisign's other acquisition comes from PaidContent, where the concept of the rich ping is seen as the reason for the approximate $25 million purchase. What is a rich ping? From PaidContent:
And yes, the deal connects directly into VeriSign's Weblogs.com acquisition: VeriSign need parsing, datestamping and other such data collected from rich ping, that is, pings that contain more info than simply fact that a site was updated. And this is where Moreover comes in. Of course, Moreover comes with more than rich pinging ...
How does rich pinging fit with podcasting? That's my question of the day. Seems that Verisign is trying to be a key part of the open blog infrastructure. I expect they have their eyes on podcasting, too.
Looks like Yahoo! is listening. Nice features that make the community the agent for strength. Staff picks, recommendations and how to explore on your own. This is the kind of thing that I expect is the new standard for community sites. A striking trend is emerging with the search players that you see in Yahoo! Podcast.. It's not that people are being directed away from the search engine but keeping you in the Yahoo! garden to find and subscribe to RSS feeds..
Just look at what occurs when you susbcribe to a feed from the Yahoo! Podcast page. You are directed to subscribe to Yahoo! Music or Apple iTunes through a feed they call .pcast.
And when you listen directly to the podcast, you get a pop up window for their flash player.
Again, the effort is in keeping you at Yahoo!, not sending you to another place.
Any features you find striking in this first version of Yahoo! Podcast?
In the past few weeks, the news of Yahoo!'s entry into the podcasting world started to emerge. Podcasters recived e-mails from Yahoo! asking if they would submit their podcasts to the search engine giant. Over the summer, Yahoo! announced an audio search tool which includes the capability to search for podcasts.
Hoping to tune into the latest craze in digital media, Yahoo Inc. is introducing tools for finding, organizing and rating "podcasts" — the audio programs designed to be played on Apple Inc.'s iPod and many other portable music players.
John Furrier did an exclusive interivew with Geoff Ralston, Yahoo's chief product officer, who talks extensively about their plans.
I took a bit of time today to play today with Judy. We rode the bus, walked a lot and ate well. Came home to read the good news about Dave's big score with Verisign. But first, the food...
I don't want to go through the details of the sale in this post. That's been covered, though noteworthy is the deal includes audio.weblogs.com so Verisign is now a part of the podcasting community's infrastructure.
More so, I am just happy for Dave. I first met Dave when he opened a webcast I produced called RSS Winterfest. I was nervous about asking Dave to participate. But he accepted the invitation, promoted it graciously and assembled a whole bunch of interesting folks to join him in the webcast conference call from the Berkman Center.
Podcasting got off to a big start due to a lot of the work Dave did. He's a real reason why RSS is what it is today. He gets people to do sing alongs. He's a road tripper. He speaks his mind. He talks candidly about his health.
Apple Insider cites sources that say Steve Jobs will unveil a video iPod, possibly as early as next week, potentially coinciding with Apple's results from its fourth fiscal quarter of 2005.
Apple Insider reports:
* It's similar to the iPod photo player but thinner
* The video iPod has a smaller click wheel, allowing for a bigger screen size
* With the video iPod will come a major update to iTunes music store, with a number of music videos and short videos
* A major update seems more likely, considering the stop in updates over the past month to the the video section of the iTunes download service. The thought is that Apple was preparing for the upcoming release
Earlier this fall, CBS and KYOU announced an audition. They were looking for a podcaster to interview CBS celebrities.
Dana Greenlee won and now has her own show on CBS Netcast.Dana has already done 30 interviews, which have started airing on KYOU. the all podcast AM radio station in San Francisco owned by Infinity. The shows will run over the next several weeks.
Dana and her husband Rob are Seattle area podcasting pioneers who have been in the webcasting business as long as I can recall. They're a team for this production, too, as Rob does the recording production while Dana interviews the stars of new and returning CBS programming.
Like Fox, NPR and other networks, CBS is podcasting on a fairly large scale. Granted, much of the podcasts are to promote their TV shows but podcasts are also available for such news progams as 60 Minutes.
Podcast Academy presented by IT Conversations at the Portable Media Expo
The Podcast Academy is a new project to help podcasters, worldwide, acquire the skills and experience they need to improve their podcasts and pursue additional opportunities in audio recording and online production.
Bookcast is a podcast from Portland-based Powells Bookstore, a sacred place as my daughter once said. I think it was the Washington Post that once called Powells the greatest bookstore in the western world.
A new breed of aggregators are emerging with the advent of podcasting and the audio/video experience we are witnessing on the web. Fluctu8 is one of the more recent new aggregators in the space that I've run across.
What will this do to aggregators like Bloglines, a solid aggregator, but seeming to be a bit less of interest among the A-list bloggers, who are playing therse days with the new generation of newsreaders such as Rojo, Fireant and attensa.
I wonder how this market will emerge now with the increasing use of audio and video by people who are both creating and consuming media on the web.
Will there be a few big players? Sure. But the world of remix is not just limited to the music world. We are already seeing constellations of different social applicaitons that will be hybrid aggregators, wiki's, photo sharing services, recommendation tools, etc. Providing the service to make these new apps seems to be the gist of what Ning is doing.
Ning, if you have not already heard, is offering a free online service for for building and using social applications. Ning is funded by Marc Andresson's venture group, 24 Hour Laundry.
Here are some of the ideas Ning has for what people can do. One suggestion is to build a podcast review app. Seems like they are doing what any good online service does and that's getting the community to create and build it themselves.
No doubt, constellations are forming. Now all you have to do is become a star.
One of the main problems in the podosphere is to find good new podcasts based on your interest. Amazon has shown for a long time the success of the "customers who bought this book also liked" feature and Odeo started something similar.
The new feature is called "Other interesting channels" and appears next to channels (this is how a podcast is called in their directory). They describe it in the according blog post "The Road Less Traveled" in the following way:
The way it works is a little different than you might expect. While the recommendations are derived from what other people on Odeo are listening to, it's not limited to the most popular things. We've tweaked it a bit to try and find things that are related, but not necessarily obvious.
It seems as if the subscriptions of the listeners play into what is suggested.
Podcast producers should keep an eye on the according Odeo pages for their podcasts. As tags and description probably influence the new feature, it is suggested to edit those from time to time. Once a feed is claimed, each show can be edited with image, link and description while tags can be edited any time.
This entertaining new program will give SimonSays Podcast subscribers access to exclusive original interviews with bestselling authors, special features about the publishing industry, and excerpts from Simon & Schuster audiobooks.
Webcasts from Duke University Podcasting Symposium (September 27 - 28, 2005) are available. Take a look at the schedule to get more information about the different presentations or choose directly:
What do you do to make money when you have millions of potential podcast listeners out there? Perhaps a better question: "How do you make 20 million listeners part of a conversation?"
The latter question is much more interesting, isn't it? I think of Loomia and what they are doing to make podcasts more relevant to their listeners. They're gettting the conversation going, showing people what podcasts are relevant to them.
Melodeo is bringing podcasts to mobile phones. Now, will people listen to podcasts on their mobile phones? Carriers are betting on music will be the hit in 2006.
I am betting on the conversation about the music. We're seeing conversation spread in remixes, mashes and all forms of DIY media. Mobile phones are natural conversation tools. Music is meant to be shared. Incremental developments in technology are creating a revolution in our views about music and its context with the individual and society.
Podcasts and music on the mobile phone all add up to technology innovation. That is sure. But these are only incremental changes. The real innovation is in the conversation and the sparks that ideas create, moving our views to a place that is far different than before, both for us as individuals and as a cutlure, experiencing music and sharing it over a mobile phone.
Give me the tools to converse about music and share it on the mobile phone. Show me how I can listen to a podcast recording on my mobile, take a picture of something and send it along to my friends with a note about this great new hip hop I heard. Show me how I can share my mobile phone podcast and music playlist across different groups. Direct me to recommendations. Show me something random. Help me broaden my music preferences.
Help me with those questions and I am sure the answers will come about those millions of listeners and the treasures they possess. Where will you find them? They'll be in groups of 12, across one very long tail, available on your mobile phone.
Alex Williams
Matt May
Nicole Simon
Roland Tanglao
