Thursday, June 30, 2005

You are the talk show host

Larissa was showing me a huge list of talk topics you can download on itunes to your ipod. Of course you had CNN, ABC, and news like that, and Air America has gone podcast crazy (of course, thier pod casts are all free) but then i saw, tons of individual pod casts... ranging from news, politice and religion, to technology, comedy, and bluegrass talk...

Makes me want to start my own talk radio show and 'pod cast it" to the masses...

oh, and you can download books on tape...err... on ipod...

Josh, you can make your own book for download. Youll just have to read it out loud, in it entirity, record it in some format, and let people download it for free... or for however much you want! Might be good to give to publishers to listen to.

4 comments:

bigsip said...

Hey, that's cool! I could do that, man! Just record it on tape and digitize it. Thanks for the tip.

Mat Brewster said...

Yeah, I think I mentioned podcastig to you boys awhile ago. It is starting to go mainstream. But lots of little guys are doing it for fun too. My friend Eric at dumpsterbust.com has a podcast that he records in his car.

Of course, lots of it is really terrible, like very amateur talk radio, with nothing interesting to say, but some guys are cool and interesting to listen too.

The big issue right now is that by law, podcasts aren't radio broadcasts, meaning they don't have the same broadcasting rights as radio. Meaning it is illegal to play a copyrighted song on a podcast, since presumably the downloader could just brake up the show into segments and have a free song.

Mat Brewster said...

I didn't mention that you don't have to have an ipod to listen to podcasts. You can just download the mp3s to your hardrive and either listen on your computer or move them to wherever.

Who's going to do the midnight cafe discussion pod?

JS said...

id love to...