The cost-reward ratio isn't all that good, either. Sure, it's fun to be able to play radio DJ, but once everyone starts realizing that only five people a day are listening to their shows and the numbers aren't growing, they're going to get disillusioned real quick. Yeah, Adam Curry can get 50,000 listeners a day, but not many others will. And once real radio shows start waking up to this concept and offering their own podcasts to the masses, that's what the masses are going to start listening to. Since there's only so much time per day anyone can spend listening to audio, the amateur podcasters are going to be the ones that listeners abandon.
In any case, in another two to three years or so Wi-Fi access will start to be available over large areas, and that's going to turn everything on its ear. Once you can stream anything into your car, all the rules will change.
I live om Taiwan. Its one of the most wired places, wi-fi, on the planet.
A group expats who live here has decided that the so-called "expat: radio staion here, IRCT, does not serve our needs/wants. A gross understatement.
Just in the last 4 days an "Expat Radio Taiwan" has been established on Live365 website.
I listen to it thru a download of Jet Audio.
Its a start on its available to anyone.
1) What if I take the Rush Limbaugh Internet feed and rip every segment into it's own MP3, making sure to skip the commercials, turn around a Podcast each segment as it's finished, I could have a show that's only time shifted 10-20 mins and available for all.
2) What if I just play back all the MP3s on my hard drive ?
In both situations, am I not inviting a lawsuit for distribution of copyrighted goods ?
Are there any Howard Stern Podcasts out there?