DIY radio with PODcasting | Doc Searls' IT Garage

DIY radio with PODcasting | Doc Searls' IT Garage: "DIY radio with PODcasting
Submitted by Doc Searls on Tue, 09/28/2004 - 15:19.
There was a time � until my late 30s, I guess � when most of my radio listening was to music. Then there was a time � roughly the last couple decades � when most of my radio listening was to NPR and talk radio. When that got boring in the morning, I'd switch to Howard Stern.
But there was a problem for me with talk radio, as there had been with music radio; and that was a growing irrelevance. Or a growing awareness of the irrelevance that had always been there.
Since the Net and the Web came along in the early and mid-90s, I've had a growing impatience with waiting around for stuff on the radio I might care about. Another way to look at it: All radio, commercial and noncommercial, including what we call the 'content', was turning into the same kind of stuff-to-endure as the advertising and promotional announcements that paid for it.
But now most of my radio listening is to what Adam Curry and others are starting to call podcasts. That last link currently brings up 24 results on Google. A year from now, it will pull up hundreds of thousands, or perhaps even millions.
So this morning, here in my hotel room, I listened to the latest edition (September 27) of Adam Curry's Daily Source Code, Dave Winer's Morning Coffee Notes about the open-sourcing of Frontier, and a conversation between Adam and Dave about all the above, iPodder, Trade Secrets Radio and much more.
In the midst were references back to the 24 September Gillmor Gang where iPodder, podcasting, Adam and the new radio platform were mentioned, plus Evil Genius Chronicles, a blog/podcast home where (among many other things) Dave Slusher corrects errors he hears on the Gillmor Gang.
At one point I paused to re-re"