Comments on: When was the last time you listened to a podcast?

By: Blog de PurÃ©e » Blog Archive » Does anyone still listen to podcasts?

Blog de PurÃ©e » Blog Archive » Does anyone still listen to podcasts? — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:25:40 +0000

[...] A former colleague, David Churbuck, recently asked the question whether people are still listening to podcasts, on his blog. [...]

By: Sam Whitmore

Sam Whitmore — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:28:24 +0000

DCC, I am crushed!!!

By: Podcasts, what have they become? Life is grand

Podcasts, what have they become? Life is grand — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:35:34 +0000

[...] Churbuck.com asks When was the last time you listened to a podcast? [...]

By: Mark Cahill

Mark Cahill — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:27:16 +0000

Remember, it’s all about the delivery channels now…

We need to find our readers/users/listeners/community members where they are instead of expecting them to come to where we are.

In fact, one of my regular podcasts is the IHT readtalker. I select the stories I want to hear while I work and they convert them from text to audio, then I listen. Of course, I may be the only guy geeky enough to want to hear his newspaper…esp. in that machine voice.

By: Con von Hoffman

Con von Hoffman — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:20:26 +0000

I wouldn’t dismiss them too quickly. They may have limitations as a business channel but for people devoted to a subject they are still a going concern. The Mrs. is a regular contributor to MouseGuestWeekly, devoted to all things Disney. It gets at least 1500 downloads a week. There are several other podcasts on that topic also. Does Disney need to be advertising or underwriting this? No. But a travel agent who specialized in Disney trips could drop minimal dollars for potentially big return.

For companies/journalists, I still think if you can offer compelling content via audio it works. But there just aren’t that many people who know how to do that. If your company could do the equivalent of This American Life then yes a podcast would take off. But it’s like a lot of other web things: People jumped on it without having anything to say.

A guy called me up and wanted me to be a consultant for his company’s blog. I talked to him for awhile and said he shouldn’t have one. I think I heard his jaw drop. While he was interesting enough to write one, he didn’t have the time. Otherwise his company really didn’t have anything to say in this way. It’s still all about content.

By: Derek Slater

Derek Slater — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:10:20 +0000

Podcasts were methadone for journalists – they helped us kick the print-only mindset and start thinking about finding the right medium for telling the story at hand. Turns out audio is rarely the right medium, but still.

By: Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:38:19 +0000

Thanks for your thoughtful post. It’s a good question isn’t it. The only problem with the conventional wisdom expressed in some of your responses is that all this was true during the alleged heyday and yet some of us enjoyed doing and listening.

Every time I think nothing is going on, it usually means the opposite is more true. Feels like 1968 to me.

By: Mark Cahill

Mark Cahill — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:24:05 +0000

On the opposite side of the argument, I’m often chained to a computer for long periods, and use podcasts to make monotonous tasks bearable. A few of the ones I listen to don’t have television or radio equivalents, such as Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History. I still put the TWIT podcast in my weekly rotation, but I’m somewhat less engaged now.

I’m anxious to see the new stuff from Revision3 now that’s they’ve got Jim Louderback on board…

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:04:58 +0000

Never were relevant. Why would I want to listen to some idiot drone? Text is faster, non-linear as I can skip around, and I can scan a whole article in 20 seconds.

Just like I HATE those video stories. Unless you’re showing me a demo of something cool, something I have to see, write the damn story out. I don’t need to watch a talking head just like I don’t need to listen to some podcast.

Too slow a method of getting information.

I’d rather read a transcript of a conference than listen to it. Actually, I’d rather gut fish than listen to a podcast or a conference or any other non-text BS being shoveled around.

Another stupid fad on its way out. Thank goodness.

You are forgiven for getting suckered into this one. You’re allowed a bonehead move every now and then. But you’re lucky you killed that incredibly frigtarded Twitter thing before I maimed you…

Twitter: DCC is now in the bathroom! Yeah!

By: Jim Forbes

Jim Forbes — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:23:47 +0000

I suspect that general interest in Podcasts, including poorly produced, bandwidth whoring video podcasts i s d-e-d “dead”.” the exception might be among the A-listers who somehow think what they say is important. Scoble hcontinues to be a joke. Podtech is in its deathrows as people bail like rats from s sinking ship and what made anyone think I’d be interested in this bullshit in the first place?

Jim