tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079429.post110067039051578533..comments2024-01-22T03:23:54.397-05:00Comments on mmeiser blog: BBC doing trial podcasting of several showsMichael Meiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02136752168371831819noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079429.post-1100672101942588442004-11-17T01:15:00.000-05:002004-11-17T01:15:00.000-05:00I posted the following words of encouragement to t...I posted the following words of encouragement to their comments page. Be sure to leave your own words of encouragement: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_emailthanks2.shtml<br /><br />---start post---------<br />Please see my post at http://mmeiser.snth.net/blog/2004/11/bbc-doing-trial-podcasting-of-several.html<br /><br />THANK YOU!<br /><br />I'm so excited you are the first major site to "get it". No other major website understands that Real Audio and Windows Media Player streaming formats are actually anti-listener. They discourage real world usage.<br /><br />Audio broadcasting has gone backwards from walkman and portable radios with so called streaming media. How is one suppose to listen to a stream in their car. How is one suppose to listen when they're not on a fast internet connection, when they're on the train, the plane.... when they're walking around the office or down the street. <br /><br />How is one suppose to archive a show for repeat listening? How is one suppose to reference a show? Where are the archival possibilities with a stream. The streaming media of Real and Win Media Player has long since passed it's day, it's time for us to kill it. The codecs are o.k., but leashing your viewers to your servers, the internet, and their computers is a horrible affront to radio, so little of our time is actually spent sitting in one place, the very portability of radio, music, and audio is what make it GREAT! <br /><br />Podcasting IS the future. The future is about freedom not control. The user's ability to create their own playlist of shows and listen to them anytime and anywhere they want.<br /><br />It can back up and support your radio program with global audience and best of all it does not undermine and in fact upholds and enhances an advertising supported business plan. There's so many new opportunities the trouble is going to be identifying them and identifying your new audience.<br /><br />This is great! Now if only we can publicize it. I had a hard time digging through your site to find the one feed, and other content doesn't appear to have a feed. Can you please make a master podcast page that has a link to all the feeds and all the download pages for the shows so we can either subscribe or download the files individually.<br /><br />Thank you! Michael Meiser<br />----end post----------------Michael Meiserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02136752168371831819noreply@blogger.com