Hello to readers of the Sydney Morning Herald. I'm actually Canadian but my podcast brothers over at techpodcasts.com seem to accept this with little fanfare. My thanks to Rob O'Neill of SMH for his mentions in this article about podcasting:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Next/Podcasts-make-waves-for-radio/2005/04/18/1113676683378.html
My complete comments to Rob about the commercialization of podcasting were:
"The obvious first stage models are being built around offering services to podcasters themselves. Efforts like Odeo and Podshow are targeted primarily at the podcasting community, offering software and bandwidth. These are service businesses, not real commercialization vehicles. Podcasters will need to develop groups in order to aggregate listenership and collect listener statistics. With numbers you can attract advertisers, so it may be possible to follow the commercial radio model. I'm also hopeful that premium content like training information or reference type podcasts can be sold on a pay-per-download basis. People listen to audio books. Why not distribute them via a podcast model?"
And which groups do I think are great places to get aggregated content? I told Rob that podcasting's "best shows right now are in the technology area with networks like techpodcasts.com and Doug Kaye's itconversations.com.
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