Interested in finding out more about the PodShow Music Networks PodSafe Christmas song? Adam Curry recently talked about it and played some pieces from a new version in his Daily Source Code podcast. If you don’t listen to the Daily Source Code regularly, find the link below to the snippet of audio where he talks about it…
Listen to Adam talk about it now (MP3 / 2MB / 2 minutes).
SF’s podcasters build on assorted quirks, intrepid ideas, and a will to get naked.
MIKE BUTLER JUST got a new job, and he can’t shut up about it, on or off the air. Butler, a house painter and local musician (Exodus, American Heartbreak), was understandably nervous about closing down his business, Michael Butler Painting, which he founded in the late 1970s, and starting work at PodShow (www.podshow.com). In early November he began his first-ever office job as one of the newest employees of the company, which is owned by former MTV VJ Adam Curry and longtime business partner Ron Bloom.
Podcasting Becomes a Business
Podcasting has been popular for less than a year, but the phenomenon is already being tapped for its potential profit. Podcasts are audio programs that can be downloaded from websites onto personal computers or digital listening devices like iPods and MP3 players. As hobbyist podcasters begin attracting a growing audience, advertisers, venture capitalists and distributors are not far behind.
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Some amateur Net radio shows have hit the advertising jackpot
Since they started recording their eccentric, irreverent podcast from their Midwest farmhouse, Dawn Miceli and Drew Domkus would joke about “world domination.”
They haven’t quite achieved that goal yet. But their downloadable “Dawn and Drew” show is now so popular that it’s courted by big-name advertisers — despite its sometimes raunchy and profane language — and has allowed Domkus to quit his day job so he can concentrate full-time on podcasting.
“It’s kind of unique when your hobby becomes your job,” said Miceli.
Miceli and Domkus are on the vanguard of podcasters who are finding that their living-room-produced, amateur Internet radio shows can lead to both fame and fortune…
Listen in this audio interview/press release where the MommyCasters describe the Dixie Sponorship and their podcast as well to a BBC Reporter.
The MDA Personal Award for Innovation went to Adam Curry for his creation of Podcasting. A serial entrepreneur and pioneer of internet technologies, he is probably better known for his time as a Video Jockey with MTV in the late 80s. Through the 90s he established and ran a major web services group. In 2003 he combined his broadcasting and technology skills to create a method of delivering MP3 files to personal computers and mobile music players on a subscription basis using weblog syndication technology. With the Apple iPod as the intended mobile platform for the output he released this as Open Source software called iPodder and in 2004 began creating and distributing a daily audio file called the Daily Source Code which attracted first hundreds, then thousands of listeners. This regular audio feed spawned a whole new movement of copycat audio bloggers, able to create and distribute their own “radio” shows for iPods, known as podcasts.
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