Sunday, November 7, 2004

Podcasting and Bloggercon III Instead of spending a day (Saturday) sitting in lecture halls at Stanford, I listened to some of Bloggercon III over the stream provided by the IT Conversations guys. Which allowed a day of multitasking. IT Conversations will have MP3s of most of the sessions coming up shortly. The downside, of course, was in not meeting all the cool people. Meanwhile, William Grosso has notes on the podcasting session over at the O'Reilly developer weblogs site. And Slashdot has a thread going off on typically Slashdotian irrelevant tangents. A random thought on podcasting: I suspect that the reason it's taking off so quickly is that podcasting is not actually a new, disruptive technology. It doesn't require a bunch of geeky early adopters. The technology is all existing stuff, which has just been pulled together in a clever, effective way. If it required some commitment of technical geekery, I wouldn't be listening. It's the fact that, using readily-available tools (podcast client, iPod, iTunes, plus the recording tools for those generating podcasts), non-early adopters like me can start pulling down and listening to podcasts. Oh, and I think the name "podcast" is perfect; I wouldn't change it. 7:01:58 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

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