http://www.markevanstech.com/2006/02/28/podcast-hype-alive-well/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:47:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.markevanstech.com/2006/02/28/podcast-hype-alive-well/#comment-1161 Ross Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:45:29 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/?p=1351#comment-1161 Hey Mark ... get with it! (said with a joking tone - that would be easy to detect in a podcast). I think podcasts are great. Okay, I may be a bit geeky, but the spoken word can convey so much more than the written word alone, and I can take it all in while I am doing other things - like driving. Some of the hardware technology needs to become more ubiquitous for Podcasts to become even more pervasive. For example; I would love to have a USB docking port as standard equipment in my car for my MP3 player, so that I could simply plug that puppy in and listen to my podcasts while I drive. All of this is possible today, but it is not as convenient as I would like. As for advertising revenues, etc., while ... I don't know, but I would rather listen to selected Podcasts that I subscribe to, on the way into work than CDs, radio, or even satellite radio. Of course there is a bit of hype here. But let me be a little controversial for a moment. I frankly believe that this Web2.0 stuff that a lot of your readers seem so excited about, is more hype than substance as well. Let's be honest; a lot of it does seem like 1999 regurgitated all over again. That being said, there is enough new value / substance in the recent Web changes that we should pay attention to it - even though nobody has been able to succinctly describe what it really is. Hey Mark … get with it! (said with a joking tone - that would be easy to detect in a podcast).
I think podcasts are great. Okay, I may be a bit geeky, but the spoken word can convey so much more than the written word alone, and I can take it all in while I am doing other things - like driving. Some of the hardware technology needs to become more ubiquitous for Podcasts to become even more pervasive. For example; I would love to have a USB docking port as standard equipment in my car for my MP3 player, so that I could simply plug that puppy in and listen to my podcasts while I drive. All of this is possible today, but it is not as convenient as I would like. As for advertising revenues, etc., while … I don't know, but I would rather listen to selected Podcasts that I subscribe to, on the way into work than CDs, radio, or even satellite radio.
Of course there is a bit of hype here. But let me be a little controversial for a moment. I frankly believe that this Web2.0 stuff that a lot of your readers seem so excited about, is more hype than substance as well. Let's be honest; a lot of it does seem like 1999 regurgitated all over again. That being said, there is enough new value / substance in the recent Web changes that we should pay attention to it - even though nobody has been able to succinctly describe what it really is.

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