{"id":182,"date":"2006-02-09T11:23:44","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T18:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2006\/podcasts-are-maybe-dead-to-me\/"},"modified":"2006-02-09T11:23:44","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T18:23:44","slug":"podcasts-are-maybe-dead-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2006\/podcasts-are-maybe-dead-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcasts Are (Maybe?) Dead To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although I still have yet to see why podcasts<\/a> are “the next big thing,” within the past few months I have regularly listened to four podcasts:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Majority Report<\/a> (on Air America Radio<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  2. Pop Is Now King (PINK)<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. The Official Lost<\/i> Podcast<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. The Transmission Enhanced Podcast<\/a> (an unofficial Lost<\/i> podcast)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This morning, I learned that two of the four podcasts I listen to are either ceasing to exist or charging for content.<\/p>\n

    The Majority Report (and other Air America podcasts, I assume) are now requiring a premium subscription<\/a> in order to listen to the show. This one really discourages me. I’ve started listening to The Majority Report on my iPod before the whole podcasting craze happened. A day or so after an episode aired, I downloaded the entire mp3 (for free) from a website, the imported it into my iTunes library. The Majority Report was great to listen to at the gym — it was entertaining, kept me up on politics, and kept my mind from wandering too much while doing my workout. Alas — no more. I typically only listen to the first 45 minutes of the show, and I can hardly justify paying for just that.<\/p>\n

    On a sadder note, Jen and Ryan<\/a> over at The Transmission<\/a>, which I fell in love with after I started watching Lost<\/i><\/a>, decided that they were going to give up the whole podcasting thing due to personal reasons. I totally understand where they are coming from, but it’s still too bad.<\/p>\n

    Although that does leave two podcasts left (if PINK were to go away [which I do sometimes worry about since I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think the guy pays to license the music], I would be totally devastated, since it’s inspired me to start doing my own DJ mixes), I wonder if this is a sign of things to come? Podcasts take a lot of time and resources, and would predict that the smaller, DIY podcasters are going to fade away while the larger podcasts start requiring a subscription. As iTunes and various other websites have proven, users are starting to warm up to the idea of paying for content on the Internet, and I bet podcasts will go the same way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Although I still have yet to see why podcasts are “the next big thing,” within the past few months I have regularly listened to four podcasts: The Majority Report (on Air America Radio) Pop Is Now King (PINK) The Official Lost Podcast The Transmission Enhanced Podcast (an unofficial Lost podcast) This morning, I learned that … Continue reading Podcasts Are (Maybe?) Dead To Me<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}