Fresh Podcasts > NPR's 17 Podcasts Are Getting A Lot of Downloads

[BeConnected] If you're still wondering if all this buzz about podcasting will amount to anything consider this: NPR's podcasting numbers are blockbuster: 4 million...

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[Technology360] Do Public Broadcasters Get It?: There are lots of styles of weblogs and podcasts and Steve's podcasts reflect the conversational style of weblog. This is conversation in the literal sense -- not just the Cluetrain sense. 

http://buyo.blogspot.com [BUYO] Public service podcasts: I think the culture of podcasting is that people like me are supposed to get into subscribing to the ramblings of some chap sitting in his underpants in a log cabin in Oregon going on about his interest in collecting 1920s tomato soup cans. I have found to some extext that my RSS subscriptions have gradually come to be dominated less and less by the New York Times, Guardian etc and more and more by interesting tomato can blogs.

Evil Genius Chronicleshttp://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress [Evil Genius Chronicles] EGC Clambake for October 28, 2005: I play a song by the Butthole Surfers; I discuss the Stephen Hill notion of NPR production standards being a requirement for podcasts to be listened to;

http://ripnread.blogspot.com [Ripnread.blogspot.com] Rip & Read Blogger Podcast: Some moderate Democrats, now represented by Mickey Kaus in the blogosphere, have opposed Davis-Bacon for years because it raises the costs of government construction while favoring established contractors and skilled union workers over their less-established competitors. Other Democrats, however, ably represented by Matt Yglesias, argue that Davis-Bacon helps unions, and unions help the Democrats and liberal causes more generally, so Davis-Bacon is a good thing, even if it's a wasteful law.

Tnl.nethttp://www.tnl.net [Tnl.net] NPR defining new Podcast strategy: As you might be aware, in 1999, NPR signed a podcasting agreement with Audible when that company was one of the few exploring ways to make audio downloadable and portable. Using Audible's services at that time was the best way for NPR to explore this new distribution technology, deal with the emerging and complicated rights issues related to download and begin experimenting with how to best serve NPR listeners who are on the go.

Podcastingnews.comhttp://www.podcastingnews.com [Podcastingnews.com] Making a Podcast with Blogger and FeedBurner: Blogger is not our first choice for weblog-based podcasting. Movable Type and Wordpress are better solutions for many podcasters, because they offer better support for podcasting, more power and greater flexibility.

Npr.orghttp://www.npr.org [Npr.org] NPR : SF Radio Station to 'Podcast' Programming: "Day to Day" contributor Xeni Jardin reports from the intersection of culture and technology. A frequent writer for Wired and other technology magazines, Jardin is also part of the influential blog-collective BoingBoing.net.

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