The Podcasting world doesn't want my input!
Hey everyone~
Well, I've tried and tried, and for some reason can not get Odeo to work. When ever I hit the record button, my internet browser just freezes up. I've tried both Internet explorer and FireFox. I've also tried serveral different computers. So, I noticed a few of you are doing things the old fashioned way, and just writing your feelings in regard to podcasting. Like most of you, I think that podcasting is really a great and new technology. As Annalee Newitz quotes Adam Curry, "People want to download blog content, and listen to it on their head-phones." I completely agree with this comment in the sense that PodCasts really do allow people more power in terms of what they want to hear, and when they want to hear it. It's a great tool for people with busy life-styles to use in the sense that they can download something they like, and listen to it whenever it is most convenient for them.
However, while it is obvious that Podcasting has really taken off as of recently, I do not think it will remain a sustainable technology over the next 10 years. The main reason for my thinking is that people like to see content as well as hear it. As technology becomes more and more advanced, this option becomes more and more feasable. For instance, it is only a matter of time before 95% of the population has some type of content enabled "screen" on them at all times. Once this happens, I believe that the option of video will decrease the amount of podcasts immensly. A similar trend would be how we went from radio to television. Now, if any of you disagree with this, don't be too harsh! :) This is just my opinion of what is to come, and I'll be the first one to admitt that I could be completely wrong!
Comments
I have to partly agree with you. I really enjoy listening to different types of podcasts when I'm at work, school, or working out because they are so convenient. However, podcasts are not like radio if you go to iTunes and check out the podcasts you will see that people have already began to switch from an audio version to an audio-video version. This has occured with many different podcasts and more are adding video everyday. So podcasting is staying with the current trend of people want to see and hear. It is my belief that podcasts are here to stay (at least for a while).
Posted by: Mark Mahan | April 29, 2007 09:17 AM
I totally agree with you that there is going to be more of a trend to move away from podcasts and onto visual broadcasting. I think that audio-video technology is going to be more prevalent because people, for the most part, are very visual beings.
Posted by: Natalya Goncharova | April 29, 2007 08:44 PM
My bad Mark, I didn't know that was happening. Plus, I just assumed that it would be called something completely different. With technological advances such as video, I suppose I can see how PodCasting will stay. Although, I think it will eventually work like HBO on demand currently works, where they just have a database of everything they play. Who knows....
Posted by: Scott Szesterniak | April 29, 2007 11:03 PM
I agree with you that podcasts are a great way to get information when your busy. I am a really busy person and to get podcasts on different topics would really help me out.
Good post, I had the same problem with odeo
Posted by: Harpal (Paul) Thind | April 29, 2007 11:58 PM