Yesterday we talked about the advent of social video and how that seems to be booming in the blogosphere. Podcasting, however, which has been on the scene longer (not to mention that audio enclosures have been around far longer than the term 'podcasting' has been around), came out in a blaze of glory when popularized late last year by Adam Curry and Dave Winer and yet — is it living up to the hype? Given that the cadre of optimistic technologists came out early with unrealistic claims about how podcasting would be the death of radio, but what exactly is realistic to predict for the growth of podcasting? Despite suspiciously overinflated (and later retracted) internet studies showing podcasting audiences in the multi-million range, not everyone is smoking the podcasting dope. So my question for you, dear readers, is this: are you smoking the dope? ;)
1. I have never listened to a Podcast.
However, I have thought about Podcasting myself. Because, you know, I have the best music taste of anyone in the world. And others should be subjected to it.
Problem is, I think lots of people think like me. So I think we have a bunch of podcasters out there ... and nobody listening to them.
Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Ben