For now , podcasting is n’t a elbow room to make huge amounts of money . Unless you’reAdam Curry , the “ podfather ” and founder ofPodShow , and/or his “ podchildren,”Dawn and Drew , you ’re probably not going to be give up your day occupation to commence a full - clip podcast anytime soon .
PodShow andOdeoare two podcasting - touch on startups that have started in good order here in the fair city of San Francisco , but neither of them have prove themselves to be induce any money yet . Sure they ’ve attracted venture capital left and correct , but that does n’t mean anything around here — yet .
I discord with my co - proletarian Jennifer Berger , who recently lamented the fact that we have a flock of impurity out there in the podcasting populace and wanted proficient subject matter filtration for it . The fact that practically anyone can podcast is precisely what make podcasting so bully — translated into geek - speak , “ it ’s a feature article , not a bug . ”
That ’s the whole beauty of the cyberspace , blogs , and now podcasting ( and , eventually , telecasting podcasts or vodcasting or whatever hoi polloi terminate up ring it ): cheap distribution of subject matter that can be bring about and consumed by anyone , anywhere . certain , not every podcast is conk out to have the listenership of traditional NPR - vogue receiving set or even the thou of listeners of Dawn and Drew — but they all started somewhere .
How do you begin a popular podcast ? The same path you set off a successful radio show , blog , or even a magazine : with compelling content . But even that lose the point — all podcasts , even Adam Curry ’s , commence as hobby . It ’s merriment to podcast , period .
This weekend I was interview for a Modern podcast called theTeen Tech Buzz , bring forth by a mates of 13 - year - olds from New York City . They grow a trailer with GarageBand and speedily gear up up their accompanying blog and RSS provender very well . Will they become the next Dawn and Drew ? Who knows , but they ’re having playfulness , and that ’s all that really count .
