Tag: Podcasting

  • Podcasting—the platform battle

    UPDATE 2026. When I updated this post in 2022 I concluded I’d got it completely wrong about who would wind up dominating podcasting. Now I’m not so sure. UPDATE 2022.…

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  • Podcasting—welcome to the symphonic era

    This is not about the 90% of podcasts that are still three people at a table talking about something. Nor is it about all those podcasts that are basically a…

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  • 11 essentials for the modern podcast

    This is one of a short series of posts about the evolution of podcasting. The first one’s about the new wave of ambitious, highly-produced storytelling formats – I’m calling it…

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  • Podcasting saves radio?

    If podcasting is going to yield a real business model for the media owners and broadcasters it probably won’t involve stations centrally creating podcasts and giving them away or selling…

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  • Love these guys

    Really: two bright geeks (well, one bright geek and one with a nice personality) reading out stories from Digg while drinking beer – I’ve been addicted for a couple of…

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  • Sort of weekendy blog stuff

    Thinking about it, poetry might be the best application of podcasting yet. I suppose that poetry is about as close to music as language gets and listening to poetry in…

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  • Podcasting on the Today Programme

    Stephen Evans gets the phenomenon about right – and introduces me to at least one podcasting application I hadn’t come across yet: unofficial gallery audio guides. Curry is honoured. Mid-West…

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  • Yodeling for pleasure

    Lots of infectious laughter in Sandy Toksvig’s programme about yodeling on Radio 4 last weekend. The thesis: yodeling cheers you up. I can’t help but agree. My iTunes library contains…

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  • Trying to keep up…

    I’ll tell you something, either I’m getting old or podcasting (a concept so new that Google is still trying to correct me when I search for it) is going mainstream…

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