<![CDATA[WebTalk’s Rob Greenlee was on KUOW’s Weekday with Glenn Fleishman talking about podcasting. Particularly interesting was his comment about how podcasting is eating into his streaming listenership.
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Rob Greenlee on podcasting
<![CDATA[WebTalk’s Rob Greenlee was on KUOW’s Weekday with Glenn Fleishman talking about podcasting. Particularly interesting was his comment about how podcasting is eating into his streaming listenership. Listen.]]>
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Rob also has interesting ideas about distribution: when you stream, you have to deal with the mechanics, pay for (or operate) streaming servies, deal with bandwidth. When you podcast, you can distribute without fear since your content is what you wanat distributed. So podcasting leads nicely into BitTorrenting, something else Rob is using for distribution.
What would great is a Movable Type, WordPress, etc., plug-in that noted that whenever audio or video content was uploaded in a certain folder would create a torrent and post it.
I agree that the podcasting infrastructure involves a lot less wasted bandwidth, but it does nothing, at this point, to help you understand what happened to your program after it left your server. An economic model—and everyone doing podcasting is interested in economics, much more than the typical blogger—requires far more information about the value of a download.
Glenn,
It is not really quite as simple as creating a torrent file through the blogging tools. That torrent file has to be linked up with super seeders and tracker servers to really provide a solid and reliable BT distribution which means that you will want to plug that content into a legal Bit Torrent Server Network like the one we are building at http://www.downloadradio.org .
We are building a distributed network with many trackers and super seed servers in a variety of colocation facilities around the USA.
Mitch is correct about tracking the actual playback is one of the two lingering issues around podcasting. The other is content providers filling out the ID3v2 metadata tags inside the media files like mp3 and wma’s.