Comments on: Podcasting Awareness ~Nil

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:53:09 +0000

I don’t understand why everyone is in such a hurry. Every time I read someone’s opinion about “what podcasting needs to grow faster” I cringe. It’s on the edge of growing too fast in my opinion.

James Nash, in that regard how is podcasting different from anything? I have 200+ cable TV channels available to me, and often cannot find anything I care about watching. I have an easier time finding things I want to occupy my time with podcasting. Who cares how many bad ones there are? I only need a few dozen good ones to keep me happy.

By: David Joslyn

David Joslyn — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:05:08 +0000

Well, I'd say podcasting is still pretty new; and as B.K DeLong proves, there are some early adopters who yet to twig to the tech. I may also be a case of lack of hardware. I don't currently own a portable mp3 player, so all my podcast listening is done while surfing the web, which can get distracting if I'm trying to both listen to, say, Tech Nation while reading WebSnark. Thus I don't listen to podcasts as much as I'd like. Owning the requesite hardware (an iPod, for example) might very well go a long way toward the populous at large downloading and listening to more podcasts.

By: B.K. DeLong

B.K. DeLong — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:36:18 +0000

I tend to be an early adopter and *I* just listened to my first podcast last week. I think for more people to adopt, there needs to be a wider choice of categories to choose from. I’m working on a project that should bring light to a whole new audience.

By: James Nash

James Nash — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:37:00 +0000

Check out ipodder – to be honest – most of what is available is rubbish poorly produced crap. The majority of people I know who use podcasts are using it almost exclusively for ITConversations.

What is required is a better search and download App coupled with the release of more quality content.

By: Bill Riski

Bill Riski — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:00:48 +0000

Doug,

I’d sure be interested in seeing the number of podcast downloads per show for all podcasts combined. If plotted over time I suspect it would paint a slightly different picture of the state of podcasting. My own guess, based on snippets heard on some of them, is about 100,000 – dominated at the moment by DSC.

By: Morrie

Morrie — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:34:40 +0000

Doug, maybe it also says a lot about surveys, how “reliable” they are, and the way the surveys are structured.