Welcome to anyone visiting here for the first time after hearing about podcasting on Jon Faine’s show this morning. Take a few minutes to check out some of the shows, listen to the other shows on The Podcast Network, and leave a comment, send me an email, whatever. Welcome to the future of media.
The show was fun. I’ve been down to the ABC/JJJ a few times now and I thought Jon was probably the most balanced of all of the interviews I’ve done on radio. Traditional radio jockeys and mainstream journos usually love to turn their noses up at “citizen media”, with an air of snotty superiority which is the pride coming before the fall. Jon wasn’t too bad though. After the show he commented that the ABC seems convinced that podcasting is the future and they aren’t throwing any more money at “this” (he waved a finger around the studio). I told him that he’s the last of an era. That seemed to get his back up a bit and he protested that more people than “EVER” will listen to the radio in the future and I didn’t have the heart to tell him that he’s dreaming.
James is a great guy. He was telling me afterwards over coffee about his recent launch of EduBlogs Premium, a commercial service he’s just launched for educational institutions that want to run their own blogging service. I’ll get him onto GW soon to chat about it in more detail. So much for James being the “anti” new media guy. 🙂
Jon’s big red button:
For as long as people want daily current affairs- live- then radio has a future. You know this.
Tom
PS we out rated you by 4 points P
ROFL. How often do you get current affairs “live”? Most news you hear throughout the day is re-hashed. Only rarely, in emergencies or things like bush fires, is it “live”. And how long do you think its going to be before we’re streaming “live” from my PC to your wifi enabled phone? I give it five years tops.
So for the next few years, radio is good for one thing – traffic reports.
And then they lose that as well.
Que wild fit of laughter with Cam…
I have not listened to “live” radio for over 12 months. My own personal position aside it is a question as to the demand. As you say while there is demand. I suggest that you have a read of
Young drive ‘radical media shift’
as it would appear that the demand is not going to be there in time.
I think that Cam’s prediction will be right it is a question of when. I don’t need traffic reports.
“James”?
Traffic reports on radio are usually slotted into ads anyway so by time you hear them you’re already stuck in the traffic!
Now, someone setup a place where users on road can sms/phone in reports and someone or something sends them straight out in a constant ‘river of traffic reports’ and I’ll listen.