NYUB Musings
- Pitchfork has been one of my MP3 resources for a long time now and it’s nice to see an article outlining how successful this site has been in displacing traditional music media. Veneral bastions of the music media such as ‘Rolling Stone’ are now realising that a collaborative music community like Pitchfork offers the reader a lot more value. Fluxblog also gets a mention along with the rest of us - the audio blogger massive. Hoorah!
- The Washington Post wants YOU to be a podcaster!
- Podcasting News lists it’s top podcasts for the month of March. Quite a different list from that on podcast alley but the two use different ranking systems. Couple that with the fact that both use unique IP tracking to do the rankings makes it even more dodgier as I realised this week how easy it is for individuals on dial up accounts to reset their IP’s by logging in and out of their ISP. I know, you’d have to be desperate wouldn’t you?
- The total US podcast audience is currently estimated to be 6 million people. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 29% of the 22 million adults that own an MP3 player in jesusland have ‘downloaded a podcast at least once’. Now that’s the catch. I don’t think those numbers add up and I’d like to see how podcast was actually definited, if at all. Podcast is not mainstream yet, contrary to what some people like to believe and it still takes a bit of technical savvy for the average punter to find a show and then download it. I’m of the belief that when people were asked about podcasts, they just associated the term with any old music download thus skewing the figures.
MK
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