Indie Podcasters vs. Big Radio

skepticality writes "The weekly news and business magazine BusinessWeek has an article coming out in this weeks edition that highlights Skepticality, Coverville, AMP, and other indipendant podcasts and podcast networks. The article explains how a small number of indie podcasts are holding their own against the corporate and big-radio shows in the iTunes top 20 rankings." From the article: "In one of the shortest trajectories yet for a new Internet technology, podcasting has gone from the hands of indie developers to media giants in less than a year. Credit Apple. With typical finesse, it has created a centralized, easy-to-use service on iTunes that makes it a snap to find and listen to podcasts, the audio recordings that can be downloaded from the Net and played on a computer or portable music player. Apple also put out a new version of the iTunes software, which makes it easy for people to create their own podcasts, and invited all to post their creations on the site. Indie podcasters such as Kempenaar and Hallgren rejoiced, ready for the mainstream to embrace the technology they had championed."

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Actually, it was probably a pun on "indie" which just went over my head. My excuse is that I had just come from reading The Australian, and one of their headlines was "Furst London Bomb Charges Laid". I kid you not. At first I thought it was a typical stupid newspaper pun headline, like "How the west was one" (on the page currently) or "Strange powder in the mail sparks jumbo panic" (also on the page currently); maybe somebody named Furst had been arrested.

And then I realised the horrible truth. Their so-called "journalists" can't spell. You'd think that somebody who chose the written word as their calling in life would take at least a little pride in using the language correctly. But apparently not.

Time and time again I have seen some pretty pathetic spelling errors on that site. Like "putting on the breaks" instead of "putting on the brakes". I saw that error twice in two days. Apparently the journalists submit the stories and they go up on the web immediately in all their un-spell-checked glory. Perhaps some sub-editor is tasked with the thankless job of retro-fixing the spelling, because "Furst" has now been properly corrected to "First".

So to those journalists, I say "choose radio". Because you can keep on spelling like an idiot and nobody will know.

As for Slashdot, the editors need feel no shame. They're right where they want to be - close to the bottom rung of the ladder. I look forward to reading this story again tomorrow.