Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Thing 21

Podcasting

I really think podcasting is in it's "infant form" currently. My reasoning for this is that there are as many formats for casting as there are manufactures of the product.

Sony, Apple and others "coerce" you into there product, but restrict your access to the content. Now this applies to previously recorded content for music as well as books on disk/tape.

Short of reading a book into a recorder, you cannot move a recorded book from one player to another easily. In the old days Cassette Tapes let you move your stuff from one player to another without problem, but, since the publisher, distributor wants their little piece out of the cost, it turns me off to podcasting.

Unless of course I am the author of the content, then I want my piece of the pie also.

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