While the radio industry braces for the full effects of podcasting (reduced time spent listening, competitive content outside of the licensing system etc) they risk missing the newest threat: Pandora. You can try it for no cost until the end… Continue Reading
Journalist Margo Kingston recently quit her job at the Sydney Morning Herald (a Fairfax company) and moved her blog to an independent website: webdiary.com.au. On the 23rd of August a client of mine received 13 unsolicited emails from that website.… Continue Reading
i’M a new iPod user and i love the way it works. The interface is simple and the implementation of podcasting is excellent but for the life of me i can’t understand why there has been no implementation of rss… Continue Reading
The ABC’s step into podcasting is a screaming success. Radio National last week had over 100,000 downloads and are moving virtually all shows (sans copyright music) to the format. There is now heavy on-air promotion. It’s a logical fit for… Continue Reading
Another terrific Media Report program this week covering BitTorrent technology; the file sharing program that improves the speed of video downloads. Mark Pesce sees program producers using the internet to disintermediate broadcasters. He suggests this is imminent but I think… Continue Reading
Talking to a prospective client the other day about their Yellow Pages advertising which has cost them a packet but is not working for them very well. They are a catering business. This is a category crying out for an… Continue Reading
This is part of a talk I gave at the Blogging at the End of the Earth conference. I want to talk more about how we can be improve our presence on the net. As a state we could institutionalise… Continue Reading
In podcasting you subscribe to audio programs on the net and they download automatically to your iPod/MP3 player. The momentum being generated about this by US techies is significant (zero to 190,000 Google hits in three months) and there is… Continue Reading
