Wisdom of Solomon eludes NBC
Now two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. One of them said, “My lord, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was there with me. The third day after my child was born, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one in the house but the two of us.
Conan O’Brien wrapped up his era on the Tonight Show last night. Most of us thought his run was too brief, but for NBC execs, it was far too long. If only the network brass had demonstrated the same level of commitment in 1993, when the unknown comedy writer took over Late Night under the first of a series of one-year contracts. Conan would still be relatively anonymous, the Simpsons would be a little edgier, and Jeff Zucker would have a bit more hair. Read more
Did podcasting…die?
Once upon a time, there was excitement in the Land of the Podcasts. Books were written and flowed through the shipping departments of Amazon, Borders, and Barnes and Noble. Dozens of podcast directories were dotted across the Internet. The technology attracted the attention of large companies such as Yahoo! and Apple. And in a small house on the south side of Chicago, a younger and more innocent author of this site began producing a podcast designed to showcase acoustic musicians he’d recorded himself.
That was many, many years ago, of course. At least three. With my recent reentry into the world of podcasting, I decided to do some research so this time, at least, I could get it right and perhaps build up something of a listener base. I purchased a book, Tricks of the Podcasting Masters, which came highly rated on Amazon.com. Although the book dated to 2006 (there were very few more-recent choices), I though to myself, “How much could things have changed?”
Ha. Read more
‘Casting without the ‘Pod
In technological terms, “podcast” is a pretty bad name.
Why? Because podcasts became popular right around the same time as the iPod taking over the world. That relative plethora of pods leads many people to believe that podcasts and the iPod are tied together somehow, and that they need to own one in order to listen to the other. I find this confusion even among some computer-literate people, so don’t feel too bad, okay?
Just to save time, I’ve created a little mnemonic trick to help you remember that that’s not the case. Here it is: YOU DON’T NEED AN IPOD TO LISTEN TO PODCASTS. Okay, that’s not really a fun mnemonic on the order of Roy G. Biv (red-orange-yellow-green-blue-indigo-violet: the colors of white light when it’s broken apart as in a rainbow) or “She made Harry eat onions” (the Great Lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario). Still, it’s just as true, and just so you don’t forget, I’ll run it past you one more time: YOU DON’T NEED AN IPOD TO LISTEN TO PODCASTS. Read more
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