Enviro perspective
Toronto Star Podcasts: Linwood Barclay - Mar. 9
There has been much ado about Al Gore and David Suzuki who have been on missions to spread the word of the impact of climate change have been hypocritical. Go and have a listen to Linwood put things into perspective.
Social voyeurism
Voyeurism: is a deviant manifestation of sexuality that involves looking without being seen in order to obtain sexual pleasure.
I have been unlike many my age, those that grew up in the age of the Internet. I have had a tube to the webs and the googles since the web was 3 years old. […]
Podcamp Session Thoughts
I’ll update this as the weekend goes on…
Building a Community Mark Blevis, Bob Goyetche, Chris Brogan
—Watch it—
A community is a critical mass of like-minded people assembling and interconnecting at the same point in time and (cyber)space. It is not “built” by anyone, it is formed throught the mutual interest and ideas share between these […]
Going to PodCamp Toronto
this weekend… see you there.
Maven or monkey?
So I’ve been doing a lot of reading of late, trying to improve on my preparation to really contribute to society. (Luck/Success = Preparation + Opportunity) I have an enormous (but self-under-valued) skill set in my field of study (Software Engineering –that is, use of software to solve engineering problems–), little of which I […]
CBC Radio Podcasting - The One
Podcasts | CBC Radio
CBC Radio has rolled out its podcasting programme. It includes a weekly series of “Best Of” from the popular CBC Radio One shows, with a different show delivered daily. It also includes weekly regional recaps and features, such as CBC Radio3. Big thanks to Tod […]
Podcast sustainability 3
Previous posts:
Podcast sustainability
Podcast sustainability 2
From the latter, I wrote:
Executive summary
Marketing in new-economy media (text, audio, or video) requires value-added advertisements, regardless if the product or service provides any (true) value. Put a short-lived promo code in the ad to entice attention by providing some sort of discount (read: value to the consumer). It has worked […]
Podcast sustainability 2
This is a follow up to this commentary that raised questions but did not provide any value-added ideas about alternatives.
I refuse to waste my time listening to the various “advertisements” that are cut-and-pasted into podcasts. Yes… they are cut and pasted because they break the flow, and have no place in the content […]
Participatory Podcasting source
Julien has started the textual side of the conversation.
Go read it, then subscribe to the syndication text feed and the audio feed, if you are interested in following or contributing to this idea of bring online conversation to the next level.
Podcast sustainability
Who’s Paying For Podcasts? - Forbes.com
Aside from the few large podcasters that can go the route of Ricky Gervais, there is not a sustainable revenue model (yet) for podcasting. The old media advertising model does not fly, which is why it has hardly gotten off the ground. Take the Earthlink ads at […]