Dave Slusher has discovered the power of the audience. Make a mistake and you’ll immediately be corrected. I learned this early on from Dave Winer and even more so from Dan Gillmor. Dan has long pointed out that his readers know more than he does, and that’s true for all of us. It’s like writing a book and having hundreds of pre-publication reviewers. The only problem is that in this case the reviews are post-publication. The answer is humility. Be prepared to be corrected, and if you’re bold enough to correct someone, be prepared to re re-corrected.
The problem with audioblogs is real-time playback. It’s not too bad…yet. I can listen to all of Adam’s shows, and Dave’s posts, but at 45-90 minutes a day, it already ain’t easy. There are audio blogs I want to listen to on a regular basis, but I just don’t have the time. (As it is, to produce IT Conversations I’ve got the headphones on for many hours a day.)
So what happens when we hit critical blog-mass? Are we already there? Like Scoble, I can use RSS to scan a whole lotta text blogs in a short period of time, but there’s no way (yet) to do that with audio. What’s the solution? Is it meta-blogging (bloggers who help us find the best-of other blogs)? Will excerpts help? I dunno.
Yahoo!, in association with Lockergnome.com, presents Gnomedex 4: Geeks Gone Wild! this week September 30th through October 2nd 2004, and IT Conversations will be there. Speaking this year will be Steve Wozniak (Woz), Robert Scoble, Chris DiBona, Jim Louderback, and Dan and Steve Gillmor. We will be streaming the audio all day Friday and Saturday including a special live edition of The Gillmor Gang. And for those who can’t be there or listen to the live broadcast, IT Conversations will PodCast all of the sessions beginning next week, so have your iPods linked to our RSS feeds. So head for www.itconversations.com and look for links to Gnomedex 4. And thanks for listening.
(The IT Conversations coverage of Gnomedex 4 is sponsored by Yahoo!, Limelight Networks, Magnatune Music and DecisionCast.)
Steve Gillmor answers the critics who have been writing that RSS isnt’ scalable. [Source: ZDNet]