Comments on: Anyone Remember Podcasting?

By: I know what happened to podcasting, but what happened to audio blogging? « Learn Online

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:39:05 +0000

[...] can’t remember who (Brian, D’Arcy, Alan) ah! it was Alan who is also noticing the drop in podcasting, but reckons audio publishing is still going strong. Just to be clear, [...]

By: Zing! is in the Search Results » CogDogBlog

Zing! is in the Search Results » CogDogBlog — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:59:18 +0000

[...] to bloggers who cut off or dont harvest their comments! I got rich today! Thanks to Matt M who commented on my “Anyone Remember Podcasting” post, he pointed my to EveryZing- as search services that does keyword searches among audio and video [...]

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:38:45 +0000

Thanks Matt- I had not seen EveryZing- had looked at a few other contextaul searches a year ago. Looks promising!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:12:43 +0000

Searching audio isn’t great, but it isn’t completely unavailable either … Check out EveryZing . Here’s another example

By: Brent Schlenker

Brent Schlenker — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:28:25 +0000

Hi Alan! I’m actually one of the people that podcatches regularly. I’m subscribed to many podcasts via iTunes and it works well with my life style and workflow. I get my tech news from TWiT and other great stuff.
I have the same frustration regarding WHAT podcasting is and how the term is used. Throwing up an mp3 on a webserver is NOT a podcast. I like to think of my subscriptions like TiVoing a TV show. Each week or day at a certain time I get a new episode in my iTunes and its automatically synced to my iPhone/iPod ready for me to listen or watch at my convenience. Sometimes that in line at the grocery store of carwash, etc.

And there are tools for tagging video. My favorite is VEOTAG. They have great service that tags any web video or audio file at any location in that file. Its very slick. But its also slow being adopted. I see great potential in tools like this for education especially when using it with archived historical video…lots of ideas spinning in this area.

Great post!

By: Alexander Hayes

Alexander Hayes — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:24:29 +0000

ok Alan…….you won……I removed 66 ‘ums’ for me and only 43 for you……and it still sounds like we are talking to each other in a cardboard box.

http://www.nswlearnscope.com/cogdog-woof-woof

As Leigh’s pointed out , RSS is either real simple syndication or for those fools out there that think Diggnation is worth listening to each and every bloody geek word then yes you’ll kill your limits in no time…..real simple stupid stuff.

I was lucky on my rural connection even to get our recording up.

Twitter. Tweet tweet. Kill that damn bird.

I look forward to whining and dining with you when you hit the big smoke of old Sydney town.

Plenty of dog parks over my way too….:-)

By: sharon

sharon — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:28:56 +0000

Hi,

just thought I’d say from a primary teacher’s view that where video is enabling many to express themselves visually and share with others their Steven Spielberg abilities it has to be remembered that many schools do not allow pictures or videos of children on the Internet. The use of voice is a way around this as it enables children to be heard and what they say as valued and important to be published. That is why I am in the middle of co-ordinating a project with teachers from all over the world called Voices Of The World where each month a short audio file is created by each school which is then mixed together by me to create one audio file with all the different voices.

I do agree with the searching aspect but like everything in life, once we get what we want we then think of something else we would like as satisfaction is difficult in this fast paced life. Now don’t read this wrong, I am not saying you are not satisfied with life it is just the society we live in always wanting to improve and that is not a bad thing.

Sharon

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:11:08 +0000

No Dave, it does not mean “no one is podcasting” or subscribing in the manner you describe. There is a full spectrum of ways people access, promote, use audio on the web. What do we know about that?

I do not proclaim to know. I am not stating “Podcasting is Dead” (if I did I forgot to display the tags).

It is very easy to make sweeping generalizations– I do it all the time — I was looking for, and getting a range of opinions.

And I learn- just in your message- thanks for the screencast for http://www.learntosubscribe.com/ !!!!

By: Dave Jackson

Dave Jackson — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:33:41 +0000

I’m confused. Audioblogging? Isn’t that just audio on a website? So now instead of starting itunes (or just, or podcastready), and letting it go to every website I want content from, folks are choosing to do this manually? If you have a show you routinely skip, um ….unsubscribe. I do it all the time. I’ll find something I think I like. I give them 3 episodes, and if I’m not into the show I unsubscribe.

You do not need an iPod or portabel device to enjoy a podcast. Businessweek just had 1 million+ downloads in a month. Sure Podcasting is not growing as fast as its original hype (and thats debatable), everything I see shows it growing.

If the headline was “remember the Fugees?” they came, hyped, and left. I see no growth there, or poential growth in the future.

Dave Jackson
School of Podcasting
http://www.schoolofpodcasting.com
http://www.learntosubscribe.com

By: Leigh

Leigh — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:10:21 +0000

You’re right Alan. audio blogging is bigger than podcasting. For me and just about every domestic Internet user in NZ, its just not practical to subscribe to a podcast. We’re on very tight data limits.. something between 1 - 5 gigs per month for NZ$40 plus line rental of $40!! So subscribing ‘blindly’ to multi media RSS would be recklessly throwing your data at a long list of stuff we never get time to listen to. We have to pick and choose.

And for those of us not wanting to be seen dead with that glitzy rich kid iPod bling, having to choke up my no brand MP3 player with auto media from RSS means I have to spend my time trying to work out the horrible no brand interface to skip or delete tracks, instead of jogging to an inspiring talk that was recommended to me by a blogger I like. Audio blogging is better for me.