USA Today ran a series of stories this week on the burgeoning popularity of podcasting. There are lots of potential applications for this technology and I think blogging and podcasting are just the tip of the self-publishing iceberg. Or in the case of podcasting, self-broadcasting.
Podcasting: It's all over the Dial:"Once upon a time in America, during the gilded reign of Johnny Carson, the rules were clear: Hollywood provided the candy, and people made time to devour it. But this Web-based phenomenon puts the real back in reality programming, emanating not from slick studios but Anyhome USA..."
Radio to the MP3 Degree: "Big tech and media companies could not have foreseen this potentially disruptive hitch to their grand strategies...
Like the blogging phenomenon, podcasts have come out of nowhere to attract an enthusiastic grassroots following. They're being generated by a wide cast of characters — from professional broadcasters to rank amateurs. Listeners can download shows to their computers, or, with a bit of know-how, automatically export shows to an Apple iPod — hence the term "podcast" — or any MP3 player."
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