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Podcasting radio

KYOURadio - Open Source Radio is the first internet station to receive podcasts from whomever and transmit them from their internet radio station.

The Roadhouse: The KYOURadio Email Discussion discusses the problems with their current business model and suggests some ways forward.

I strongly agree with points 1 & 2 — there’s no way that I’m going to ‘sign up’ to listen to an internet station and any web site that does not work with Firefox deserves utter opprobrium in my view.

What’s happening here? I think that we’re on the cusp of an exciting new phenomenon. That podcasting is growing and attracting new audiences is undeniable [find some refs to back up this assertion] and I think we are seeing the start of a trend to producing professional grade content in the podcasting format and the desire to see professional grade dissemination of that content. In the previous posting whatshisface (couldn’t discover the bloke’s name what authors The Roadhouse) writes that:

I got the impression that the folks at KYOU do understand that there are some serious flaws in both their business model and in the technology they’ve chosen.

My guess is that KYOU will respond positively to The Roadhouse’s points. This also raises the interesting topic of the way that creative interactions between ‘customer’ and ‘supplier’ (or whatever terms you choose to describe this business relationship) is enhanced simply by the way that the Internet works.

More guff later probably.

Posted by markp at May 25, 2005 12:40 PM | TrackBack