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Adam Curry, the “podfather”?!

I didn’t hear what Adam Curry said in his first Sirius broadcast but it looks like he is taking the credit for inventing podcasting and gone and annoyed the hell out of Dave Winer

Of course you’ve got to wonder what Curry is doing in the first place - if podcasting is so great, why is he back broadcasting? Would it be because he can reach a broader audience? That whole “push” vs “pull” thing again, eh.

To quote Curry himself:

Podcasting is a lot more difficult than dashing off a post on a weblog. Podcasts take time. You have to record and create in real time, and invest more time editing. There are a lot of people who’d love to do this part time or full time, but that takes money.

Podcasting is a good idea because it enables timeshifted receipt of content, not because its an “ultimate network”(whatever that is supposed to be).
Another:

We really need more listeners to come in, to make podcasting in general more attractive for advertising.

Ah, so advertising is the driving concern. Now the move to Sirius makes sense.

And lastly:

…with podcasting, now there’s an opportunity for anyone to create (an) audio show and distribute it worldwide, efficiently

(Emphasis mine). Now see, traditional podcasting is inerently bandwidth inefficient for the content producer - you know, the geek in his home studio with a standard hosting service provider. If you’re looking for an efficient way to distribute podcast media maybe promote use of bittorrent, or some streaming protocol rather than downloading huge mp3s over plain old HTTP.

Meanwhile I’ll stick with my podcasts of real content that have no commercial concerns, but only when I’m stuck somewhere that a) there is noone to talk to and b) I have an hour to spare to listen to the whole program. I don’t have hours to spare to listen to people prattle on about how cool podcasting is.

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