Keep the questions coming about SAM!!!
I received an email with some good questions about SAM:
Now, I've read through blogaudsphere and I think I get it. I'm curious what the mindshare/adoption has been and what are the challenges right now facing you with it? Also, is the RSS/Atom piss war a contributing factor to hurdles with SAM?
What's really missing to make this happen now?
If I think of any other questions, I'll let you know.
The mindshare/adoption of SAM to date has been slow. Slow is what I would have expected as I have not really exerted much energy outside the BlogAudSphere website at this stage. For right now "Word of Web" is where we want to be. I was actually impressed this week by how well the web works when The Portland Phoenix.com picked up on SAM and their writer Jess Kilby really got it (without communicating with me at all) as shown in his article Talk hard. It's great to know there are a lot of smart people out there communicating over the web.
The RSS/ATOM piss war is annoying but I don't know if the war itself is really a hurdle for SAM. SAM at the end of the day is very flexible and can ride over RSS or ATOM or on it's own.
The biggest challenge to SAM and the future of Audioblogging in general is user created audio content creation adoption. A mouth full to say but really just a new twist on the old "chicken and the egg problem" the "audio content versus the audiobloggingradio problem". Which comes first? You really need to be thinking about both at all times. The so called "big picture" of audioblogging. We really need a lot of help from developer community, both open source and .NET to produce tools and services to get this whole thing off the ground. To start we need more audio content producing tools, companies/services like Audblog and Audlink so the voices out there on the net can play and experiment with this medium. Have you ever wondered why no one hasn't yet produced a simple desktop tool/service to produce and post audioblog posts right from the desktop using the PC's sound card? Today, the audiobloggers' only real audioblogging commercial option makes them put down their notebooks and keyboards and pick up the phone to post to their audioblogs. Doesn't sound like convergence to me! As we make some progress there, we need new and old web companies to put up some new web audio services like Feedster and Technorati and/or new audioblogging features so listeners can easily find all of this great user created legal audio content. It doesn't end there but at least this where all the fun really begins.
Keep the questions coming!!!
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