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This week we will delve into a topic my close personal, long time friend Frank Cotolo has spoke about on his program many times in the past. The pod cast celebrity and how it has evolved over time on line The history of pod casting has been something that is slowly evolving but the current history is from the great on line source the wikipedia, What makes pod casting distinct from other digital audio and video delivery is the use of syndication feed enclosures. The concept was proposed in a draft by Tristan Louis in October, 2000[1], and implemented in somewhat different form by Dave Winer, a software developer and an author of the RSS format. Winer had discussed the concept, also in October 2000, with Adam Curry[2], a user of his software, and had received other customer requests for audioblogging features. Winer included the new functionality in RSS 0.92[3], by defining a new element[4] called "enclosure"[5], which would simply pass the address of a media file to the RSS aggregator. Winer demonstrated the feature by enclosing a Grateful Dead song in his Scripting News weblog on January 11th, 2001[6].
For its first two years, the enclosure element had relatively few users. Winer's company incorporated the new feature in its weblogging product, Radio Userland, the program favored by Curry, audioblogger Harold Gilchrist and others. Since Radio Userland had a built-in aggregator, it provided both the "send" and "receive" components of what was then called audioblogging[7][8]. All that was needed for "pod casting" was a way to automatically move audio files from Radio Userland's download folder to an audio player (either software or hardware) -- along with enough compelling audio to make such automation worth the trouble.
While few developers of RSS-capable blogging software or aggregators made use of the enclosure element, in June 2003, Stephen Downes demonstrated aggregation and syndication of audio files in his Ed Radio application[9]. Ed Radio scanned RSS feeds for MP3 files, collected them into a single feed, and made the result available as SMIL or Webjay audio feeds.
In September 2003, Winer created a special RSS-with-enclosures feed for his Harvard Berkman Center colleague Christopher Lydon's weblog, which previously had a text-only RSS feed. Lydon, a former New York Times reporter and NPR talkshow host, had posted 25 in-depth interviews with bloggers, futurists and political figures, which Winer gradually released to the feed[10]. Announcing the feed in his weblog, Winer challenged other aggregator developers to support this new form of content and provide enclosure support. Not long after, Pete Prodoehl released a skin for the Amphetadesk aggregator that displayed enclosure links[11].
In October 2003, Winer and friends organized the first Bloggercon weblogger conference at Berkman Center. CDs of Lydon's interviews were distributed as an example of the high-quality MP3 content enclosures could deliver[12]; Bob Doyle demonstrated the portable studio he helped Lydon develop[13]; Harold Gilchrist presented a history of audioblogging, including Curry's early role, and Kevin Marks demonstrated a script to download RSS enclosures and pass them to iTunes for transfer to an iPod[14]. Curry and Marks discussed collaborating. After the conference, Curry offered his blog readers an RSStoiPod[15] script that moved mp3 files from Userland Radio to iTunes, and encouraged other developers to build on the idea. The iPodder idea was picked up by multiple developer groups. While many of the early efforts remained command-line based, the first pod casting client with a user interface was iPodderX (now called Transistr), developed by August Trometer and Ray Slakinski and released in mid-September, 2004. Shortly thereafter, another group (iSpider) rebranded their software as iPodder and released it under that name as Free Software (under GPL). Since it was free-software this program was developed extensively and used quite a lot. This project is terminated after a cease and desist letter from Apple (over iPodder trademark issues). It's reincarnated in Juice and CastPodder. The PodNova desktop client is also a derivative of iSpider. The PodNova desktop client is slightly modified so that it can keep the subscriptions on the server [1].
The term "pod casting" was one of several terms for portable listening to audioblogs suggested by Ben Hammersley in The Guardian on February 12, 2004, referring to Lydon's interview programs ("...all the ingredients are there for a new boom in amateur radio. But what to call it? Audioblogging? Pod casting? GuerillaMedia?")[16]. In September of 2004, Dannie Gregoire also used the term to describe the automatic download[17] and synchronization of audio content; he also registered several 'pod cast' related domains (e.g. podcast.net). The use of 'pod cast' by Gregoire was picked up by pod casting evangelists such as Dave Slusher[18], Winer[19] and Curry, and entered common usage.
In September 2004, Curry launched an ipodder-dev mailing list, then Slashdot had a 100+ message discussion[20], bringing even more attention to the ipodder developer projects in progress at SourceForge. By October 2004, detailed how-to pod cast articles[21] had begun to appear on line, and a month later, liberated syndication libsyn launched what was apparently the first Podcast Service Provider, offering storage, bandwidth, and RSS creation tools.
In February 2005, Carl Franklin, publisher of the audio talk show .NET Rocks!, started the first official pod cast production company, Pwop Productions, which now produces podcasts for Microsoft and other companies[22]. Also in February 2005, Australians Cameron Reilly and Mick Stanic started a Commercial Podcast Network, The Podcast network. Reilly described his vision for the network to be the Time Warner of New media. In May of 2005 John Furrier founded PodTech PodTech.net a pod casting site focused on Silicon Valley and the pioneering InfoTalk format.
Following London radio station LBC's successful launch of the first premium-pod casting platform LBC Plus, there was widespread acceptance that pod casting had considerable commercial potential. In February 2006, UK comedian Ricky Gervais launched a new series of his popular pod cast The Ricky Gervais Show. The second series of the pod cast was distributed through audible.co.uk and was the first major pod cast to charge consumers to download the show: at 95pence per half-hour episode. The first series of The Ricky Gervais Show pod cast had been freely distributed by Positive Internet and marketed through The Guardian newspaper's website, and had become the world's most successful pod cast to date with an average of 295,000 downloads per episode according to The Guinness Book of World Records. Even in its new subscription format, The Ricky Gervais Show is regularly the most-downloaded pod cast on iTunes.
The Precursor to the pod cast is as follows..check this from wikipedia,
Before the advent of the World Wide Web, in the 1980s, RCS, Radio Computing Services, provided music and talk-related software to radio stations in a digital format. Before on line music digital distribution, the midi format as well as the Mbone, Multicast Network was used to distribute audio and video files. The MBone was a multicast network over the Internet used primarily by educational and research institutes, but there were audio talk programs[23].
Many other jukeboxes and websites in the mid 1990s provided a system for sorting and selecting music or audio files, talk, segue announcements of different digital formats. There were a few websites that provided audio subscription services.
The development of downloaded music did not reach a critical mass until the launch of Napster, another system of aggregating music, but without the subscription services provided by pod casting or video blogging aggregation client or system software.
Independent of the development of pod casting via RSS, a portable player and music download system had been developed at Compaq Research as early as 1999 or 2000. Called PocketDJ, it would have been launched as a service for the Personal Jukebox or a successor, the first hard-disk based MP3-player.
A fully conceived precursor to pod casting came from another early MP3 player manufacturer. To supply content for its players the I2Go company, makers of the eGo player, introduced a digital news service called MyAudio2Go.com that created daily audio news feeds users could download to the eGo or any other MP3 player. The eGo's file transfer application could be programmed to pull down specific feeds to a user's PC every evening.
There were dozens of focused daily feeds covering national news, business news, entertainment news, even a recap of the previous day's TV shows. The service lasted over a year, but succumbed when the I2Go company ran out of capital during the dotcom crash and folded. Archive.org has an August 2000 snapshot of the MyAudio2Go site.
In 2001, Applian Technologies of San Francisco, CA introduced Replay Radio, a TiVo-like recorder for Internet Radio Shows. Besides scheduling and recording audio, one of the features was a Direct Download link, which would scan a radio publishers site for new files and copy them directly to a PC's hard disk. The first radio show to publish in this format was Web Talk Guys, produced by Rob and Dana Greenlee.
The ego trip with rankings and pod cast alley is one of those that goes out and gives these nerds their egos. Anyone and everyone who is involved with pod casting knows, there is no real rankings for the podcasts. You have arbitron ratings for radio and then you have the neilson ratings for TV. So where does pod cast get theirs? Most pod cast sites rank their podcasts and most people are on all pod cast sites but some can be #1 comedy pod cast on blah.com and others are #4567 on other pod cast sites. Podcast alley is a site where people can vote for their podcasts but they can log votes by people voting but not by listening to them. You could have 10 votes and those come from listeners and for instance Jim Rome could have a pod cast and encourage everyone to vote for him, with half listening on their radio and vote for him to be #1 and not actually listen to the pod cast
Podcast is mainstream and has killed net radio, Just like video killed the radio star. Pod casting killed the internet radio star. I remember back in the day when you heard an on line show on Alternacast.com that was at 11pm CNT and if you had no time to catch it. You were ****ed on listening to the program, The host did not have a site or record his program for later listening online.The best broadcasts on the net were ones who did not have a website, they put everything into their program. Pod casting came along with letting people go out and broadcast their show and then let people download it later. Much like TIVO came along and got rid of the term “Appointment viewing” for TV. Pod casting has come and done the same thing for the audio signal. Many net stations shut down cause of pod casting and the method of broadcasting that was going to get after mainstream radio.
Podcasters have award shows now, what the hell is this. A bunch of people who are not stars are treating each others like stars. Most award shows such as the BET awards, anyone who listens to hip hop music knows who will win and are the winners of the BET awards. VH1 has awards and let's people vote for the awards. However, I have saw a bunch of these so called Podcast award winners, none of these people I have ever heard of. So the pod cast awards are also on line with pictures and they are on line here hhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/52665001@N00/sets/72157594308140044/ Now check these wanna be radio stars out.
Now these ego maniacs have their own conference. Check out Kurt Brando on Cotolo's program. Check out Oct. 26th program on http://cotolo.podomatic.com/ The pukes{as Sgt. Slaughter from GI Joe and WWE would say} Now what the hell is all the ego maniacs going to do at this conference. All I can say is the geek squad is going to talk about audio and how to market their pod cast
The geeks is what I refer to these jack legs My take on Pod casting and pod casting is what is the big hype for this? I have wondered where were all the pod casters when it was called net radio? A lot of people used to keep track of their broadcast and post it on line via their site or others. So what is the issue here. They need a new term, I also think it's funny that back in the day when I have had audio saving issues on my pc. I wished I would have had something to keep all my audio without cd burning. Then the ipod came out, and I was just thinking ahead of my time. However I think the podcasters are something that can be cool. I remember back in the day when I was on KSKU and I was horrid, if anyone has ever heard my aircheck tape from back in 2000. I came to internet radio and I found places like Alternacast and others and trained myself on how to do better radio and became a better host and got some tech knowledge out of all this. I am currently planning my return to mainstream radio with a degree and other things I have learned. So I do hope that radio people who suck or people who want to do radio use the pod cast to become a better broadcaster. Back in the day, Ryan Seacreast used tape and recorder to do radio. Now people are using the pod cast, it's just an evolution of amature broadcasting.
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