Canada's nicest and smallest futurist, Tod Maffin, has been hovering around Steve again and talked about his AOV radio as a podcast. Apparently Tod has been right some jesus into podcasting since last Wednesday according to his new blog about it. Anyway, Steve was on Maffin's weekly CBC spot this morning as the radio woke me up. [Thinks: Funny, I was dreaming about Steve just before my eyes opened...it was in Montvideo and it was April...and...(shudder)]
....anyway...ummm...Interest that, David has just rejiggered and bejiggered the greatest aggregator in the universe, Jäger, into a podcast aggregator. Most interesting is how Maffin suggests that all of radio will collapse as advertisers flock to Steve and his ilk, as I have been advocating for this site for days on end now. Here are some thoughts:
- Is an advertising stream a valid indicator of a medium making it? Are podcasts not more like ham radio, niche conversations about topics of interest to the few? I like Steve a lot [thinks: what a weird dream] but can his taste in music come to govern mine as a mainstream medium might or is it more like hints being shared, essentially an idle hobby, unemployable...like Steve?
- Am I, iPod less and likely to stay that way, now a drift, separated from pop culture? Will something soon happen that I will not get at all that everyone else does and I will be posterboy for loserdom?
- Who will people work for if all the advertising money goes to people like Steve or will the ads go to the Daves who create a means to get many Steves and do that which the internet hates...index them for you? Will there be a SteveCo or DaveCo in which he become the farmer, herding cubicles of policy guide and playlist led industrial bloggers? Have Steve and Dave now slightly different economic opportunities?
Comments
Alan - October 13, 2004 9:33 AM
So why just music shows? Who will do the drama, radio and news? Who will index them. I know Dave Winer has made the killer statement "I have thought a lot about this" as part of his determination that an indexing of the internet will not work, but if indexed audio files will have use. If not they will be shoeboxes full of half thoughts.
Hans - October 13, 2004 9:34 AM
One possibility is that this is the tip of the iceberg of a society divided by class exept the classes won't be capitalist and proletariat but rather those that possess and know how to use technology and those that don't (the "masses"). As illustrated in Coupland's "Generation X", modern currency is not money, but a kind of aesthetic coolness. If technology continues to be equated with cool then the technos will be the "elite". If technology ceases to be equated with cool, then the technos will be seen as a small group of weirdos.
Hans - October 13, 2004 9:38 AM
Another possibility is that big money will move in on the scene indexing and aggregating and then selling aggregated and indexed products to the masses. All it would take is to figure out how widespread use of computers have become and how much money can be made. If it is alot of money, this could happen real soon.
Alan - October 13, 2004 11:26 AM
Coolness is of may sorts. Jazz makes its lovers cool as does baseball and soccer. NFL and NHL fans, however, are not cool in that way - more jocular jocks.
Indexing has to be open source and simple. There are ways to do it I am sure.