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係播網絡電台HIRADIO,六月四日,podcasting

去年於香港的時候,曾拜訪這個有趣的電台-係播網絡電台HIRADIO,也現場錄了亂談台灣媒體現況,參與了幾個網聚,總之,就是在台灣沒法作的事。之前,我知道他們除了用ICQ作現場「call in」外,還運用podcast作為現場錄音與廣播,流通的方法,大概是華人世界第一個草根組織用podcast來搞廣播╱媒體運動的先例。

臨近六四,剛收到他們的消息,覺得應該替他們宣傳一下。有多餘的空間與時間,也可幫忙他們複製更多的podcast,產生更多的rss,努力放送。Wired雜誌媚俗地說podcast是下一個廣播明星,問題是:我們要明星幹嘛?如果這世界到處都是一樣的聲音。

DIY經濟學

Fortune的一篇文章中指出:每個當紅的事件都會有其反應,而bloggers,這些自己幹的新聞記者,突顯了主流媒體的限制;podcaster重新掌握了「電台」,透過置放在網站上的Google 的AdSense,開始賺取不無小補的費用。

The Amazing Rise of the Do-It-Yourself Econom
Numerous currents have converged to produce this reaction. Bloggers, those do-it-yourself journalists, showed big media that the barriers to entry (like owning a printing press, say) didn’t much matter. Podcasters took radio into their own hands, creating audio shows and putting them online. Amateur music producers, using software that was once the province only of major labels, invented mash-ups: combining songs into totally new ones, then giving them away or selling them. And with the advent of services like Google AdSense, which let people easily put advertising on their sites, these tinkerers could—while not vaulting themselves into Bill Gates territory—at least break even.

用podcast賣保險套

嫌傳統媒體太過正經,順便為了規避FCC未來的廣告限制,全球最大的保險套公司,Durex,準備用podcasting作廣告。呵呵。真是,只有成功商業化了,才會是被看到的次文化,龐客如此,澳洲原住民保存如此,ipod如此,podcasting 也是。

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