The new radio revolution

[Khaotic]

The new radio revolution
From Business Week, March 3, 2005
By Heather Green, Tom Lowry, and Catherine Yang

How fast is technology turning radio upside down? Ask Brian Ibbott. Last September, when the wannabe Denver deejay started playing music on the Internet, the term for what he was doing — podcasting — had been around for two weeks. These days the 35-year-old produces a half-hour show of popular songs called Coverville. Some 9,000 devotees download it three times a week to play on — what else? — their iPods. And if they tire of Coverville, they now have 3,500 other podcasts — and counting — to choose from.

For all the hullabaloo it’s generating, podcasting is not even close to being a business yet. While startups such as Odeo and The Podcast Network are providing technological support and creating a podcasting network, right now Ibbott has barely enough ads to cover expenses, and most podcasters work for free.

http://www.freepress.net/news/7021

Die corporate radio, DIE!

[liveoaktx]

1. Technical question-is a Podcast an MP3 file?

and if so, what's the best software to make one?

[onehandle]

2. Check here...

http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware

[trogdor]

3. Should be able to put podcasts on a CD, right?

My car stereo isn't IPod capable. Man, when I got my in-dash MP3 player, I thought it was the shit that I could put a dozen or more albums on one disk.

[onehandle]

4. Yes. nt

[AliceWonderland]

5. "Die corporate radio, DIE!"

I love stories like this. This is how radio should be.

I listen to streaming online radio all day while I work, and it's great. There are lots of new and interesting alternatives out there.

[eagler]

6. For the other 99% of the people who can only listen to

right wing stations - bring back the Fairness Doctrine!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

7. kick

[jswordy]

8. Here ya go...

http://www.nekkidradio.com/

Check it out.