Via Dave Winer, a sensible commentary on podcasting by the people by Greg Linsay.
Winer obviously disagrees though - the “Columnist Greg Lindsay trashes podcasting by the people” headline kinda gives that away! The article doesn’t ‘trash’ podcasting by the people - it just states that there won’t be much money to be made out of the practice. I didn’t notice any comment by Linsay on the quality of these podcasts. He is just highlighting that the corporate world is awake to blogging and podcasting and are already adapting to the new channels faster than with any previous channel, and they are already grabbing eyeballs.
In fact, the ‘rebuttal’ article subsequently referenced by Winer only re-enforces this assertion! I’m not sure what point Winer wanted it to make, but the assertion that corporate blogging will be the death of traditional journalism is nonsense. If Winer’s main beef is with advertising then he has got his blinkers on. Many ‘independent’ blogs and podcasts advertise products either directly or indirectly and lets not forget the recent ‘expirements’ with advertisments in RSS feeds.
