Podcasting
According to Wikipedia:
A podcast is a series of digital-media files which are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and computers. The term podcast, like broadcast, can refer either to the series of content itself or to the method by which it is syndicated; the latter is also called podcasting. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster.
Many respected bloggers, Glenn and Helen Reynolds, Michelle Malkin, Mary Katherine Ham, podcast. I just do not get the concept.
The Internet is a visual medium. Writers spend a great deal of time on their site design, on optimizing the placement of advertising, on all sorts of concepts devoted to improving the reader’s view of their site. That is understandable.
Why, then, would you devote your energy and talent to the production of content that is a poor imitation of an existing audio-visual medium? The Internet, the Web, is new media while podcasting seems to be a pale version of television.
Few podcasters have the audio and video equipment necessary to produce a television-quality product. That product, when produced, is then displayed on a screen that is far tinier than the average television screen and its transmission to the viewer is limited by the bandwidth available to that viewer for his Web access.
Podcasting reminds me of television in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. Small screens, less than optimum sound and video quality. People watched it for the novelty as much as anything.
To me podcasting is the wrong way to use the medium. Podcasts, and their relatives, YouTube videos and downloadable movies, consume vast amounts of Internet bandwidth to bring entertainment to people who already have better ways to watch that entertainment.
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