Awakened Voice

I saw recently that Odeo has added Google Adsense links to the sidebar of their pages.
The biggest question that I have about the variety of podcast directories/networks/communities has to do with making money. How do these services propose to make money (and therefore survive) when the content they are presenting is owned by someone else?
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Earlier this evening I listened to an excellent conversation between Jon Udell of InfoWorld and Mike Hudack of the Blip.tv video blog service.
Blip.tv is one of the many services that allows people to host and distribute their videos for the very nice price of free. I tried them out in late 2005 only a few [...]

Stats are a critical part of the Social Media strategy of any business. Two companies that have helped blogger and podcasters keep track of their stats are FeedBurner and BlogBeat.
Today, the Feedburner blog announces that they have acquired BlogBeat. BlogBeat was a pay service and now their stats will be incorporated into FeedBurner’s Standard Stats [...]

Let me be the first to call for a standard directory Opt Out tag within RSS feeds. iTunes has one implemented. Why not the other directories?
I would like to see a standard tag like or something like that added to the RSS Namespace. Each directory should provide a single word, unique identifier that feed [...]

According to their website, “Social Media Club is being organized for the purpose of sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy around the emerging area of Social Media.”
This is a very interesting idea. I’m all for groups and communities to help strengthen the bonds of practitioners of Social Media technology.
They’re kicking [...]

In my previous post on Protecting Your Social Media Assets I failed to mention one important element of stating your intentions for content with respect to podcasting.
The aspect I’m speaking of is Metadata. Medadata is the data behind the data. It’s the data that tells you what a media file is all about.
For example, the [...]

Remember the old days of podcasting? And I mean like February of last year. There was this cool, free app that everyone was using to subscribe to podcasts.
The app was originally called iPodder but later had a name change due to issues with Apple over having a name similar to the iPod. It’s still around [...]

Just this past week there was a major brouhaha in the world of podcasting. Podcasting powerhouse Podshow launched their long awaited PodShow+ podcasting community. Within hours of the site opening thousands of podcasters checked to see if they were listed and to investigate how their podcasts were being presented. That’s where the trouble started.
The ever [...]

Have you heard of Blubrry? If you’re a podcast producer or podcast companion then I recommend you stop by there and see what’s happening.
The first thing you will realize is that the site is not sexy. It’s a pretty basic approach that focuses on the experience for both the companion and the producer. No flashy [...]

Adam Varga of the excellent audio podcast Dailysonic has created a very nice resource for those interested in figuring out the many different tools and services related to podcasting.
Adam is calling this resource Okay To Play. According to the Okay To Play website, “OKAY TO PLAY’s goal is to help podcasters make educated decisions for [...]