Monday, July 25, 2005
Porn-casting parachutes onto the pod battlefield
Good morton, friends. Let’s launch another week by looking at the podcast scene. More news from the podcast battlefield. It wasn’t always a battlefield, you know, but now corporate interests and a genre new to the field are making plenty of noise.
The new beast is none other than porn. One wonders why it took this long for the genre to hit podcasting. An article worth reading on the subject is at Newsweek online. At Podcast Alley, a web site that rates podcasts by using votes (a skewered process by far), our program was once steadily placed in the top five. But then there were merely a hundred or so entries in the category “Cultural/Political.” Now there are 376 programs as of today.
Other podcasting sites, most which make our show available, are experiencing similar traffic surges in product. There were plenty of independent products in the first place and that number was inflating. Now with the commercial invasion, it appears that you can fill an iPod in no time with programs you won’t have the time to hear.
We won’t let this bother us. We jumped on the podcast bandwagon and have a loyal and strong-numbered audience. Picking up new people takes faith more than advertising. Podcast listeners seek and destroy. Those who need our kind of show will find us, through searches, word of mouth and nothing more.
The new beast is none other than porn. One wonders why it took this long for the genre to hit podcasting. An article worth reading on the subject is at Newsweek online. At Podcast Alley, a web site that rates podcasts by using votes (a skewered process by far), our program was once steadily placed in the top five. But then there were merely a hundred or so entries in the category “Cultural/Political.” Now there are 376 programs as of today.
Other podcasting sites, most which make our show available, are experiencing similar traffic surges in product. There were plenty of independent products in the first place and that number was inflating. Now with the commercial invasion, it appears that you can fill an iPod in no time with programs you won’t have the time to hear.
We won’t let this bother us. We jumped on the podcast bandwagon and have a loyal and strong-numbered audience. Picking up new people takes faith more than advertising. Podcast listeners seek and destroy. Those who need our kind of show will find us, through searches, word of mouth and nothing more.
