Saturday, July 16, 2005

One year ago today: On this day in 2004 I could see the audioblogging world was starting to heat up.  A real tipping point.  Podcasting was right around the corner. Morning listening This morning I discovered and listened to over 100 recent audio posts from bloggers in the BlogAudSphere. The audio postings include a drum solo and a rap sesson.  I tried to blog some of the most interesting and unique ones here. If you use , you can listen to all of this morning audio post findings as a playlist. Enjoy!! 12:05:18 PM  comment []    trackback []     Putting the communities into podcasting Over the years I have tweaked the name and description of this blog always working around my main theme "Audioblogging".  This morning I  replaced the word "collection" in the decription of this blog with "community". Why did I replace collections with community? Let first look at the definition of community over at dictionary.com: It doesn't really matter how you say it as the next stage of podcasting will be the ""distributed", "segmenting", "grouping", "collections" or community phase of development.   We are already witnessing and seeing this happen with the introduction of some of the big cities of the podcasting society like the ITunes store, ODEO, Podcast Alley, Podcast Pickle, etc. and the evangelizing of OPML a shared knowledge distribution method which can also be used as "public works" spec for any podcasting community. But just like there are big cities/communities off the net there will also be the need for the greater podcasting society to "distribute" or "segment" into smaller towns and communities.  The so called "podcasting burbs".   Acting as big cities off the net like Paris and NYC, each of the Podcasting big cities will long for the podcasting society's attention and always see themselves as the only community, the center of the podcasting society.  All other podcasting communities that meet their size with similiar goals will be seen as the competition and publicly ignored. Smaller more niche segmented podcasting communities will also exist.  These communites will add value to the podcasting society by openly complementing the big podcasting cities.  These communities will serve as an efficient resource for specific groups of podcast listerners that don't have the desire, time or attention to visit and navigate the big cities of podcasting looking for the specific content that interests them.   Unlike the big cities, these communities will have less issues sharing and working openly together.  Actually it is these attributes, open and sharing for which they gain their strength to deliver value to their podcasting community. 7:04:29 AM  comment []    trackback []

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