Secrets of Podcasting - History Part 2

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Giovanni: So, let us talked about some history when it comes to podcasting, in order for us to get these whole series kicked off. Now, let us go much, much further into the future the June 2003. 2003 in my opinion was a watershed year for this technology. This is when a lot of stuff really started to catching a lot of steam. The media started noticing what was going on. Socio Media and Socio Journalism and citizen journalism really started picking up steam and we have this perfect storm of all these technologies and all these movements in 2003 particularly, in the summer and through the fall of 2003, that really put ahead of steam on this movement and allowed us to enjoy what we are participating in today.

Now, in June of 2003 Steven Downs had an application that would go out he develop an application that he demonstrated that would actually go out and scan or assess file. Find these MP3 files and then collect them into a single fee. Again today, by today’s measure, it is not a big deal. But in June of 2003, this was one of pieces to the puzzle that we had to put together, to make this media movement successful.

Few months later in October 2003, you see a lot of activity within the podcasting movement. David Wiener and some of his friends put together a conference called “Blogger Con.” A gentleman there, named Kevin Marks showed a script as a demo during Blogger Con that would only go out, scan or assess feeds and put together in MP3 file, but he took it a step further than he would take the MP3 file that was then sitting on a computer. Imported into iTunes and then allow iTunes to transfer it directly onto an iPod.

After that conference, Adam Curry also demonstrated a reader that would take an RSS feed, then transfer that content directly through the computer onto an iPod. His application was called iPodder, a big important thing about iPodder was, number one it was an open source application and he was making it available for free for people out of the internet. So people would actually come in, that were not involve, in the core of this movement and start participating in the medium and start enjoying some of the benefits of having a suit solution from picking up the content and having it set on top of their MP3 player on their iPod.


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