July 19th, 2006
Trials and tribulations with garageband - it’s been such a tortuous arse! But the podcast finally get’s sorted, erm… which is evident.
It’s hot, the air-con is off, the window’s open and yes, we live next to a road.
A teeny bit more on positive progress with Podshow, Podshow+ and the neccessary focus on listeners.
Billie Piper’s mesmerising [...]
June 17th, 2006
But with these different, focused aspects to the content here, wouldn’t it be great for you, the regular visitor, to filter out all the stuff you are not interested in?For example, let’s say you come here to keep up with what I’m spouting about podcasting…. The rest will be available of course, behind a click or two, but you can be pretty sure that you are not going to have to scroll or navigate through what to you is irrelevant waffle, to find the waffle that is relevant.I’ve been conscious about this issue of broad discussion topics here for a while, but still want to retain this as a single personal space rather than splitting it off into several niche blogs.
June 5th, 2006
Though with the ipod’s significant dominance in the space, just that device’s adoption would be a viable statistical resource.With consistent statistics suggesting as few as 20 percent of podcast listeners using media players, the need to measure offline listeners becomes a minority consideration.It is possible to track the opening and access of a PDF, but that is because it can contain external asset URLs…. I’m not 100% sure if Flash could handle event triggering midway through an audio stream, but it could certainly register if the user decided to use a control button to fast forward or rewind.Such a solution would be more open - because the vast majority of web browsers can handle Flash and would not require registration - and therefore provide potentially more accurate stats than even Podbridge (though with less detail as Podbridge likely require registration by the listener - I haven’t checked this bit out as I’m writing this on the move.In the end we may have to simply do some broad research and gain a general understanding on average as to how many podcasts are listened to against how many are actually downloaded.
