Will podcasters step up to help their own economy?


	Will podcasters step up to help their own economy?

billdeys

5-31-2007 7:06 AM

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ericrice, spin, podcast

billdeys says:

Podcasters need to read this article.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/881131b7-3f4d-4efe-b611-6d071df18136/5889C968-1663-4B30-8E29-BB7B8A60B30E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ericrice.com/blog/?p=515" href="http://www.ericrice.com/blog/?p=515" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ericrice.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ericrice.com/blog/?p=515"><P>When Joe and Jane Q. Public fire up the iTunes music store, they are presented with quite a bit of stuff to buy. Music. Videos. Movies. Games. TV Shows– many by individual content, and others by series (album). Everything but the lonely podcast.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ericrice.com/blog/?p=515"><P>I have my theories. One of which, is the harmful nature of an echo chamber. Ask a podcaster about paying for a podcast, and they might say ‘no’–check that, they might say ‘NO’. And herein lies the problem. The Chamber of Echoes.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ericrice.com/blog/?p=515"><P>Why?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ericrice.com/blog/?p=515"><P>In so many words, I was chatting it up with someone from Apple–someone who certainly sees the irony that yes, you can in fact, buy a lot of stuff at the iTunes store, both by episode or by series, a model very similar to how most podcasters release their content. I was told in no uncertain terms, that functionality to sell podcasts in the music store, might come to fruition if podcasters <STRONG>made a huge amount of noise.</STRONG></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5889C968-1663-4B30-8E29-BB7B8A60B30E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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