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Peter Whitehead, FT Digital Business Editor, said that they discovered over time that podcasts can't be repackaged content from the existing outlets, but something in its own right. Low quality "office chat" or high quality, radio-like atmosphere? Going for the latter, but a long way yet to go.

Trevor Dann, director of the Radio Academy: Podcasting leading the radio insustry. The FT's content is radio, delivered by podcasting. Once you include video, you lose portability — that's the great strength of radio, it's a secondary medium. You can do something else while listening to it.

Peter: not dangerous, not doing live, another channel to distribute our content. The listeners are niche audiences, but very valuable. iTunes putting FT logo on their podcasting homepage quadrupled number of downloads instantly.

Trevor: used to licensed, governed radio. The internet is a fantastic opportunity to converse abouit subjects with audiences. Radio has to be impartial. Podcasts don't. The audience won't want glorified adverts, they want authenticity.

Free vrs paid for:

At moment difficult to monetise. Will come. Might be slower than we'd like.

Time for closing drinks, I think.

While at Blogher, I was accosted by a mad Scotsman in a kilt. This was no an entirely unfamiliar experience for me. I grew up in Scotland, and have even been known to wear a kilt myself once in a while (but not for a long while).

However, this particular Scotsman forced me to talk into a microphone.

You can find the results at the Tech Conference Show, where I appear after far more interesting people, like Elise Bauer and Vanessa Fox of Google Webmaster Central.

Based on a suggestion from Neil MacLean, here the same video on iFilm:

Vpod.tv:

I've been playing around with a few video upload sites, as I fancy doing a little more videoblogging, and want to acheive better quality than YouTube offers. A couple of sites have caught my eye, so I uploaded the same video clip to both to do a quick comparison.

This one is from blip.tv, which has nice things like an automated video podcast feed and the option to upload different versions for different players:

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And this is from Vimeo, whose interface is beautifully clean and simple.

Port Al Kantaoui on Vimeo

I can't decide which I prefer...

On my morning commute, I catch up with my podcasts. And, on this morning's commute, I caught up with the latest Strange Attractor podcast, which had been sat on my iPod for a little while without me noticing. And, my goodness, what a corker. It's not often you catch me laughing out loud as I drive the Croydon flyover, but I did this morning. The pair's evisceration of both The Independent's "blogs" and Keith Waterhouse's laughable opinion piece in the Daily Hate Mail is just perfect.

And I strongly suggest my blogging journalist colleagues have a listen to it, just in case they feel the temptation to write "What do you think?" at the end of their posts...

As the podcast is hosted on Odeo, I can embed it here for your listening pleasure: 

The domain name screw-up that hit Podshow yesterday seems to have had worse implications than I expected. Over 24 hours after I spotted there was a problem, I still can't get the latest episodes of the Daily Source Code and Geekbrief TV.

It looks like the various subdomains the Podcast Delivery Network runs off are still hosed in some way, and most podcatchers are getting confused by it. iTunes certainly can't find the shows.

This is bad news for Podshow. Why? Well, as best I can make out, they partner with podcast creators, with the creators doing the actually making of the podcasts, and Podshow handling delivery (through the PDN) and monetising it, through selling ads and sponsorship. The two groups then share the revenue. The longer delivery of the podcasts stays down, the more Podshow is failing to uphold its end of the bargain.

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So, you know Podshow, the podcasting (sorry “independently produced media”) company founded by Adam Curry and Ron Bloom?

Looks like they forgot to renew their domain name:

Kinda ironic, given that Go Daddy is one of their sponsors…

UPDATE: As of 2.20pm UK time, it's all working again.

UPDATE 2: Mr Curry podcasts about the problem in the latest Daily Source Code

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