Friday, September 2, 2005

Another UT JEM Podcast! With that word "another" in the title, I'm rather facetiously claiming to have been the "first" podcaster from the faculty of the University of Tennessee School of Journalism & Electronic Media -- even though my podcasts have been of the "this is a test" variety... and my current plan is for one that will be more entertaining and educational than journalistic. Now that two tests have worked, I hope to work my way up to a regular "show" about folk music and folklore on the Internet. I named the thing "Podfolk," ignoring any "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" connotations. Back to the news: I've just finished helping my colleague Mark Harmon launch his more political/journalistic podcast, which will include excerpts from his radio program. He calls it Left Turn. For now, you can go there and listen to his audio clips. Soon, you'll be able to subscribe to the site's RSS feed with iPodder, iTunes or similar programs. (The feed is already working, but it won't deliver the audio enclosures until we make some adjustments after Labor Day.) Meanwhile, not to suggest that either Mark or I plan to make a buck on podcasting, here's a new article by a bunch of MBA students and their Indiana University professor, on "Podcasting: A new technology in search of viable business models." I've only given it a quick scan, but I'm disappointed that its history of podcasting doesn't mention Christopher Lydon, whose blog was a catalyst for the first podcasting scripts. His early blog posts are still online, full of digitally recorded interviews with early bloggers and folks like William F. Buckley and Norman Mailer. Meanwhile, Chris has moved back to the airwaves (as well as the Internet) with his new telephone-and-blog interview program, Radio Open Source. Both his old and new incarnations are worth a listen. In fact, it's still possible to listen to a program he broadcast about blogging in May 2000, when most folks in the "mainstream media" hadn't heard the word! 4:50:53 PM    comment []

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