Missed the opening remarks....general comments:
Podcasting is not confined to broadcast limits, you can have an interview of 24 minutes with Bill Gates, no other medium can provide that.
J.D. Lasica says he likes that podcasts not only time-shifts media it also space-shifts. He can listen to the content in any location via his MP3 player.
Podcasting is a verb not a noun.
Photo from Frank Paynter's photostream
A commenter asks what percentage of podcasts are journalism and what percentage are commentary?
In response Dave Winer asks "how many phone calls are journalism?" It's difficult to determine. Dave has also posted a podcast interview with the Brendan Greeley who is leading this session.
There is a lengthy discussion about the license and rights fees that podcasters must pay to utilize music in podcasts. A bit out of my league. I will try to find somebody who is blogging this who is a bit more familiar with the music copyright laws.
Podcasters licensing issues will be a boom for independent artists. Dave Winer says we need to have a line that says "if you have deal with a record label, we can't deal with you."
Dave Winer: everybody is stuck in this 20th century notion that to communicate you need to be at the top of the food chain. We are in the 21st century. Podcasting is about a father reading a bed-time story to his son because he can't be there. It's not about a market or competition, it's about communicating.
Dave goes on to say that raw podcasting is like organic food, the flaws in it, the dirt, allows me to know that the content was grown and not processed like too many things in the world. If text of content is too crisp then I know that it has been processed.
Podscope.com is a tool that allows you to search podcasts by keyword content and then see the timecode location of that content within the podcast.
What is stopping podcasters from forming a group and purchasing the license for music rights such as the radio stations have purchased? Perhaps that is the major thing to come out this session.
From the audience Basic rules for podcasting.
Frank Paynter's comments from this session.
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