Thursday, May 26, 2005

Hey the Washington Post is podcasting. Yow.  

A 17-minute podcast with the missing bits on Trade Secrets and Adam Curry. We started a technology, business and artisitic partnership in public, and never explained why it fell apart. This is my story.  

Nick Bradbury of FeedDemon has started a thread on the River of News style of aggregators, and I join in.  

The PBS show NewsHour with Jim Lehrer supports RSS. 

The Make You Go Hmm thread got pretty interesting today. 

Jeff Veen: The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds. I'm glad that Jeff is writing about this. Now that Safari has made subscribing easier, it would be great if the other browser vendors followed suit, and then carefully upped the ante. There's an evolution that could take place here over the next year that would make subscribing really easy. I'll write more about this soon. 

At the beginning of today's podcast I said I'd talk about how I'd like to go on from here, but I finished before explaining. I really do think the air is clear now. I want to be able to talk about podcasting business models, where it was difficult before because I had undisclosed conflicts, now they're out in the open, so you know how to judge my opinion. 

Doc Searls: "The podosphere is the new conferencesphere." 

Rex Hammock begins a series of blog posts he has entitled "How Apple Will Change Everything About Podcasting." 

In the very next aggregator run after posting today's podcast, an article in the Boston Globe about the rift. I'm glad I got my side out there. I knew the Globe article was in process, I was interviewed for it on Tuesday. I was pretty sure it would be about as superficial as it turned out to be. Also on Tuesday I said podcasting can go deep, and today here's the proof. It's a new medium and a new world, I don't care how much they sniff in pro-jo land. You can't slime someone like the old days, nowadays we talk back. So there's a silver lining to all the michegas, we get to use the tools in new ways.  

Finally the cartoonists are starting to figure out blogs.