This has lingered in my in-box for almost two months as I decide whether to give it air or not, so today I'll just post it and be done with it. To begin: Steve Jobs did not invent podcasting. Arguably, Dave Winer and Adam Curry did, though the concept was in the air at the time (as I like to remind people). But I digress. What's interesting in this areticle is that it documents the dominance of video podcasting platforms (like YouTube and Spotify) over video streaming and regular audio-only podcasting. Though what I observe in YouTube is constantly trying to push me to clips from commercial media, even though I far prefer hiking and cycling videos, tech and photography, along with a good dose of history and comedy, pretty much all created by small independents. But this article makes me wonder what the author, Daniel Parris, thinks are podcasts, as he asks, "Why do people want to watch other people sit still and talk?" I mean, that can be the format - I like TWIT and GCN, for example. But I think there has been a failure here to understand that what makes a podcast a podcast isn't the speaking part. It's the independent media part.
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