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>I'm actually worried that podcasts are going the way of the web. What, for a while, was a weird world of enthusiasts talking about things that interests them s
by el_cujo 8y ago
>I'm actually worried that podcasts are going the way of the web. What, for a while, was a weird world of enthusiasts talking about things that interests them seems to be morphing into a world of a few big corporate entities calling the shots.
I think podcasting is somewhat shielded from this by the fact that you really don't need an insane amount of capital to put out a good product. There definitely are podcasts that have expensive, professional studio set ups, but there are others I've listened to that are just straight up recorded on an iPhone and they can actually sound very decent. This low barrier of entry makes it easy for people to make their own weird podcast without having to water down their product and pitch it to investors. I guess with time that could change if your podcast is considered dead if its not on one of these big corporate channels. As someone who really enjoys the "homemade" feels, I hope this never happens, a podcast feeling overproduced is a big turn off IMO.
- celeritascelery 8y ago> I think podcasting is somewhat shielded from this by the fact that you really don't need an insane amount of capital to put out a good product. You could say the same thing about the web
- ip26 8y agoAnd aren't there plenty of interesting personal blogs out there?
- eterm 8y agoAnd it then comes back to content discovery. It doesn't matter what is out there, it matters how easily you can find the niche rather than the corporate.
- njarboe 8y agoWebsearch on only non-corp websites. Human curated to prevent gaming the corp filter. I'd pay $5/month for that.
- differentView 8y agoAre there? How do I find them?
- rmrfrmrf 8y agoTwitter
- chrisco255 8y agoMedium
- hunter2_ 8y agoThis is the crux of the issue. Either someone (perhaps the owner) tells you, or you ask someone who knows. The former is distinct from discoverability, so that's out. When you ask though, you want to ask someone who knows lots of things, which is likely to be corporate (major search engines).
- username223 8y agoHyperlinks, RSS, and a bit of routine maintenance. When you stumble upon an interesting article, subscribe to the author's feed. If you lose interest, unsubscribe. You will eventually end up with the information source you want.
- gdy 8y agoWhen you google a question that interests you and find an answer in a blog, you see if there are more interesting stuff there.
- gnopgnip 8y agoLink aggregators.
- sarcasmOrTears 8y agoDon't worry, when podcasts get popular enough the goverments worldwide will find a way to use "regulations to protect consumers" to slowly make podcasts possible and profitable only if you are a big business. Just like it's happening with websites.