November 22, 2004
RSS Newsfeeds, MP3 And Podcasting: Will The BBC Take Them All Mainstream?
The recent news that the BBC is experimenting at the bleeding edge of the new media technology world, with podcasting, probably shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. They have been experimenting with the newest of new media technologies for some time.
The BBC was one of the first major (state-owned) media organizations to offer RSS feeds for its top news sites last year and they are now available for all the major news categories (World, UK, Business, Politics, Health, Education, Science/Nature, Technology, Entertainment and Sport), as well as a few other feature categories.
BBC Radio, through the BBC Radio Player, makes nearly all of its radio shows available to listen to again for up to 7 days after broadcast.
Furthermore, BBC Radio has recently started a trial whereby they make broadcasts available as downloadable MP3 files, enabling listeners to play back shows on MP3 players, such as iPods. The first two programs in the trial, which runs until the end of the year, are a documentary called Get A Life and a Sports program called Fighting Talk.
Now we hear news of a podcast trial. The show in question is called In Our Time and is hosted by the distinguished broadcaster Melvyn Bragg. It appears that this is all down to a guy called Matt Webb, who works in the BBC's Radio & Music Interactive group. Matt made the semi-official announcement on his blog, saying that:
"The MP3 trial runs till the end of the year (I didn't have anything to do with that, it's one of several MP3 download trials the department is running, and it's an enormous achievement for such a huge broadcaster. Very proud to be working here at the moment). But there are these folks writing software to make the whole audio-online experience much smoother, the Podcast folks, could we give that a go too? And that's what today is about..."
You tell 'em Matt!
You can subscribe to the podcast at iPodder, where it is currently one of the 'Most Popular' shows.
As Steve Rubel has just said in his Micro Persuasion blog:
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" it's another sign that citizen's media and professional media are merging and the impact bottom-up technologies are having on the larger players."
November 1, 2004
Portable Podcasting: Edirol R1 Records WAVs And MP3s On The Go
Podcasting is the emerging smarter on-demand broadcasting paradigm emerging from the blogosphere. How do you do it? You simply make an audio recording of an interview, a new track you are working on, a radio show you want to broadcast on the Internet and then you... read more
October 25, 2004
Podcasting for Windows Media
The ever resourceful digital media blogger, Jake Ludington, has written a highly informative and user-friendly guide on how to transfer and use digital audio files from iPodder to any Windows-based media player and has published the screenshot-filled tutorial on his site Mediablab. Since the whole Podcasting phenomenum... read more
October 15, 2004
P2P+RSS Are The Future Of TV Broadcasting
Mark Pesce has recently published a lengthy, punchy, strong piece anticipating a take over of what used to be major broadcast media by the unstoppable emerging forces of P2P network distribution, personal syndication, and low-cost transmission technologies. Professor Pesce, now happily emigrated to Australia to coordinate... read more
October 13, 2004
What Is Podcasting: Chris Pirillo Finds Out
Chris Pirillo has put together a great introduction to what podcasting is. If you have an audio enabled personal computer and are interested in the newest online trend you may really want to listen to this excellent 45-minute intro to podcasting. Podcasting is all the rage... read more
October 10, 2004
Eric Rice's PodCast Interview With Robin Good
Eric Rice, well-known blogger and founder of AudioBlog, now also hosts a radio show on the net. In his relatively recent and experimental audio broadcasting journey Eric is using Garageband to record his podcasts. While in San Francisco Eric visited Robin's party Friday night at... read more
