{"id":2769,"date":"2004-12-20T12:42:07","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/12\/20\/podcasting-fad-or-future\/"},"modified":"2004-12-20T12:42:07","modified_gmt":"2004-12-20T16:42:07","slug":"podcasting-fad-or-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/12\/20\/podcasting-fad-or-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcasting &#8211; Fad or Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4335'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"justify\">   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/Dogpod.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"147\" align=\"left\">How<br \/>\n        much longer will podcasting be the hot tech flavor of the week? It&#8217;s<br \/>\n        catchy name and seemingly unlimited potential, piggybacking on the monopolistic<br \/>\n        success of the iPod itself (although as each and every article now points<br \/>\n        out, the connection is technically tenuous and non-exclusive) have gotten<br \/>\n        &quot;Podcasting&quot; onto the screens and pages of seemingly every major media<br \/>\n        outlet in the land. This from today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/tv\/articles\/2004\/12\/20\/through_ipod_technology_anyone_can_be_a_broadcaster\/\">Boston<br \/>\n        Globe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">&#8221;This is technology that gives me a voice I never<br \/>\n          had a month ago,&quot; Carey said. &#8221;It&#8217;s amazing how someone can now<br \/>\n          make a cell phone call that can be heard all around the world.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>          If Internet-based weblogs turned everyone into a potential newspaper<br \/>\n          columnist, and digital cameras let them become photojournalists, podcasting<br \/>\n          is promising to let everyone with a microphone and a computer become<br \/>\n        a radio commentator.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">Of all of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\">Dave Winer&#8217;s <\/a>seemingly<br \/>\n        inexhaustible stockpile of brilliant ideas, it seems to us that Podcasting<br \/>\n        has the highest Buzz<br \/>\n        to Impact ratio. Startling disclosure &#8211; the Dowbrigade was featured in<br \/>\n        Dave&#8217;s VERY FIRST podcast &#8211; a recording he made as we walked across Copley<br \/>\n        Square on our way to the opening session of the Democratic National Convention<br \/>\n        back in July. We at the time expressed our firm conviction that Bloggers<br \/>\n        should stick to print and that voice entries would never catch on.&nbsp; Just<br \/>\n        goes to show what a prescient observer of Digital&nbsp; Development the<br \/>\n        Dowbrigade really is&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/tv\/articles\/2004\/12\/20\/through_ipod_technology_anyone_can_be_a_broadcaster\/\">Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much longer will podcasting be the hot tech flavor of the week? It&#8217;s catchy name and seemingly unlimited potential, piggybacking on the monopolistic success of the iPod itself (although as each and every article now points out, the connection &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/12\/20\/podcasting-fad-or-future\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}