Podcasting - who cares?

[fjdouse]

I suppose if you're American or like American content it's ok, I can't find anything of interest to me at all, I tried the BBC one but I can't understand a word, it's all done with some speech synthesiser.

I can't even find a way of removing it! I only like the Library and my playlists being shown, not the rest of the junk.

So for me, it's of zero interest and a waste of time. Horses for courses as they say.

[Shookster]

I agree that there should definitely be more control over the feeds once they've been downloaded. One of mine got renamed automatically to "storage" for some reason and it won't let me change it back.

P.S. I'm not American and I still found content that I was interested in. If you want news / talk, they'll most likely be better on a proper radio station. I listened to feeds on the kind of subjects that they don't normally broadcast on the radio - e.g. screenwriting and marketing (yeah, I know, boring).

[fjdouse]

Originally Posted by Shookster

P.S. I'm not American and I still found content that I was interested in.

You found British content, apart from the BBC?

[CreativeEye]

I'm not American either and found interesting content.

There might not be a lot of British content up there right now but give it time - I'm sure there will be. In exactly the same way as widgets were all US-centric to begin with but now you can get localised ones...

Just because theres no British content doesn't make it uninteresting in itself - thats a bit short sighted - the fact that theres no content AT ALL that YOU find interesting makes it less appealing to YOU.

it's a bit like saying - 'I love movies, but they are all pretty much american so i dont like them and they are a waste of time for me - therefore i dont go to the cinema...'

if you truly want more british content, help yourself and try google! i just did a search for 'british podcasts' - and the first hit?

http://www.researchbuzz.org/hub_of_b...odcasts_.shtml

[Robn Kester]

I just wish people would stop calling them podcasts. They are not being broadcast by an ipod. They are being listened to on an ipod, and many times, not even an ipod is playing them.

For them to be truly podcasts, you would have broadcast them from your ipod to somewhere else, such as with a FM transmitter.

And I think podcasts (silly name aside) are a fad and will die. imho.

[CreativeEye]

was it adam curry who coined the phrase 'podcast'? its a bit like the mp3 player market - 'ipod' has simply become the defacto term for all players amongst a generation... podcast seems like a fair enough term to me... and it seems that all the makers of them from the bedroom dj's to the majors are happy to call them such...

...another example would be coca cola / coke - everything of its ilk is generally called 'coke'...

also - there have been over one million subscriptions of podcasts since the launch of itunes 4.9 - thats subscriptions - not the 'get episode' method...

http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/06/...subscriptions/

[cfleck]

...another example would be coca cola / coke - everything of its ilk is generally called 'coke'...

No, I think its more like coke being called soda distribution

[CreativeEye]

ah - ok, soda isnt really a word used in the uk. the only time it is used is in reference to baking soda!