Internet Broadcasting Makes A Comeback

Mark Leaman writes "About six years ago I founded an internet broadcasting company called GT2K (Gametalk 2000) which featured Real Audio based radio shows on gaming in all its incarnations (table top, strategy, computer...). During the dot.com "plague years" we saw hordes of internet broadcasting companies belly up. But now internet broadcasting is making a comeback thanks to Podcasting. Although Podcasting isn't new news Yahoo has some nice coverage on the re-emergence of the medium."

Comments

Re:NPR's coverage of Podcasting

[the_2nd_coming]

umm... you can listen to them on any MP3 player...just get a podcast client....

BTW... it shows just how entrenched the iPod is when a distribution method based on RSS 2 and MP3 is called PODcasting.

Re:NPR's coverage of Podcasting

[Anonymous Coward]

Good God, are peoples lives so empty and devoid of meaning these days that they'll attempt to fill it with someone elses empty and devoid rambling on their own empty and devoid lives?

Web Logging and Podcasting are the ultimate in ego masturbation. People can now fill their pointless lives with other people pointless lives. I'm not sure if this is the Internet analogue of the rise in reality TV or if some deeper societal shift has led to both Web Logging and reality TV equaly.

Re:NPR's coverage of Podcasting

[samael]

Yes! You're right! Talking about your feelings, beliefs and life is _pointless_. People should just shut up and get on with their lives. We only have friends for their entertainment value, and they should learn not to actually communicate about anything about themselves.

Lost revenue

[mushupork]

Does anyone have time for commercials anymore? I don't. Tivo TV, burn radio streams to my iPod, and skip thru the commercials. Number of commercials I have to listen to nowadays: zero. Good friggin riddance.

Perhaps this is part of the declining TV viewership companies have begun to bemoan, blaming yet again the revenue-robbing Internet.

Question.

[bogaboga]

It seems to me that podcastion is the same as recording some sounds, providing a link to a website where the recordings can be downloaded by whoever is interested. Am I correct?

If that is the case, then I'd say that many stations have been doing this for a long time. Nothing new...save for the iPOD.

Re:Question.

[Anonymous Coward]

the whole point about podcasting is not that the technology or technique in and of themselves are particularly 'new', but that the acccessibility of the medium to the average computer user is very new. Yes, there have been professional radio stations doing this kind of thing for years, but now, for the first time, so can your grandma. That's what's cool about it. It's a socio-cultural innovation, not a technological innovation.

Re:NPR's coverage of Podcasting

[Anonymous Coward]

"Good God, are peoples lives so empty and devoid of meaning these days that they'll attempt to fill it with someone elses empty and devoid rambling on their own empty and devoid lives?"

I dunno, do people spend hours of every day listening to Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, and a slough of other empty gasbags on talk radio?

The only difference I see here is one of scale.

I hate to complain... but

[alex_guy_CA]

This article is more an advertisement for someone's commercial venture than anything else. If he wanted to just post this rehash article about pod-casting he could have with out plugging his own web site. I'm surprised this made it thru the /. Standards.