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Evolution of offline information networks: Printing press -> Radio -> Television Evolution of online information networks: Blogs -> Podcasts -> Videos What

Evolution of offline information networks: Printing press -> Radio -> Television Evolution of online information networks: Blogs -> Podcasts -> Videos What is interesting is that: 1. Podcasts > Videos since they can be consumed in more places than Videos 2. People love and consume long forms podcasts (>1 hour)

manuelmoreale 5y ago
The issue with podcast—which I absolutely love—is one of discoverability and distribution. Blogs can be easily indexable and searchable while podcasts are definitely not. Also, the vast majority of podcasts rely on 3rd party services to distribute their content on podcast apps. Which makes the entire infrastructure a lot more fragile than a simple self hosted blog IMO. They’re still an awesome medium though, especially for long conversations.
TOGoS 5y ago
Don't know why sibling is dead; perfectly good points about discoverability of podcasts. To which I reply: I have had success discovering podcasts when they had transcriptions on the page. Google for some words, hit upon page, say "I can't read all this now but hey there's a link to audio", download the entire series, transcode to 16kbps Opus using ffmpeg, put it on my phone, listen in the car. (The two examples I have in mind are https://www.psymposia.com/podcasts/plusthree/ https://www.psymposia.com/podcasts/plusthree/ and https://www.organism.earth/library/document/conversations-on-the-edge-of-magic https://www.organism.earth/library/document/conversations-on..., which would suggest that posting transcriptions with your audio is something that occurs to people after consuming a certain quantity of mushrooms, or maybe it's just that the stuff those people tend to say happens to match stuff I'm googling for. Something something "hierarchical power structures".)

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Evolution of offline information networks: Printing press -> Radio -> Television Evolution of online information networks: Blogs -> Podcasts -> Videos What

by SMAAART 5y ago

manuelmoreale 5y ago
The issue with podcast—which I absolutely love—is one of discoverability and distribution. Blogs can be easily indexable and searchable while podcasts are definitely not. Also, the vast majority of podcasts rely on 3rd party services to distribute their content on podcast apps. Which makes the entire infrastructure a lot more fragile than a simple self hosted blog IMO. They’re still an awesome medium though, especially for long conversations.
TOGoS 5y ago
Don't know why sibling is dead; perfectly good points about discoverability of podcasts. To which I reply: I have had success discovering podcasts when they had transcriptions on the page. Google for some words, hit upon page, say "I can't read all this now but hey there's a link to audio", download the entire series, transcode to 16kbps Opus using ffmpeg, put it on my phone, listen in the car. (The two examples I have in mind are https://www.psymposia.com/podcasts/plusthree/ https://www.psymposia.com/podcasts/plusthree/ and https://www.organism.earth/library/document/conversations-on-the-edge-of-magic https://www.organism.earth/library/document/conversations-on..., which would suggest that posting transcriptions with your audio is something that occurs to people after consuming a certain quantity of mushrooms, or maybe it's just that the stuff those people tend to say happens to match stuff I'm googling for. Something something "hierarchical power structures".)