Podcasts
Two features of Web 2.0 that just don’t seem to be catching on in the real world (i.e. to people who aren’t at least a little geeky) are podcasts and RSS, the two major syndication/subscription systems. RSS is something that I use to keep up with my friends’ blogs, news and sports, weather, etc. Not very interesting, all pretty basic. Likewise, for a long while I’ve never really gotten into podcasts because there just isn’t a whole lot that I want to keep up with: for a quite some time the only podcast I regularly watched was Diggnation.
This changed the other day when I saw that Keith Olbermann’s Countdown was now being offered as a video-podcast, in full and without advertisements. I haven’t always been a big Keith Olbermann fan: at times I found his show to be a tad narcissistic, and just as vitriolic as Bill O’Reilly only in the opposite direction. Without a doubt, though, Olbermann is the superior journalist when compared to O’Reilly, and his sense of reality is infinitely more apparent. These days, my Olbermann podcast and Google News make up my daily news fix.
Today my podcast library got a little larger still! Revision3, the company that produces Diggnation and a host of other internet shows, announced a new partnership with Wine Library to bring a new video podcast that is editted far better than the old Wine Library podcasts (given I’ve only seen one example of each). Host Gary Vaynerchuck is a thoroughly interesting character: combining the obnoxious New York mannerisms of that guy sitting two rows away from you at a baseball game and what appears to be a decent knowledge and appreciation of wine. How’s that for breaking stereotypes?
August 16, 2008 at 5:54 pm
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