International Law

Is podcasting dead?

Alexander Wolfe asks Is Podcasting Dead?:

Podcasting was famously born in 2000, with Tristan Louis, Dave Winer, and former MTV veejay and legend in his own mind Adam Curry variously crystallizing the concept and creating a market for audio files encapsulated in RSS feeds. Now, it's 2008 and time to admit that the actual uptake of podcasts by users hasn't, and never will, come close to the hype.

Hence the question in my headline, "Is Podcasting Dead?" More correctly, the question should really be whether podcasting isn't on artificial life support. Because, as best as I can see, there's a lot more money and effort being spent on creating 'casts than there is interest and dollars headed back to content creators from consumers.

Read the rest of the answer here (from Information Week's Wolfe's Den).

Full post as published by Freedom to Differ on January 14, 2008 (boomark / email).