"The Genre of Podcasting and releasing Top 10 Sources

In a non-Berkman project, I’ve been working with an exceptional team of people to create something I think is cool: Top 10 Sources, which we are releasing today. One of the unexpected parts of developing this site was Dan Bricklin’s work in writing up a piece on “The Genre of Podcasting” — an unexpected bonus, … Read more

Wonderful things about the podcasting community

Dave writes on podcatch: “It’s a wonderful thing! People in the community want the newcomers to podcastng to use their work, and help them do more. But so far they’ve taken the Atex approach, one-corporation doing everything-for-everyone. It can’t possibly compete with the structure the community has already built. I’m committed to making it work, … Read more

Two Radio Shows

It’s been a big few weeks for radio around the Berkman Center.  Today’s installments: Public Radio International’s Here and Now, based at WBUR in Boston, devoted part of a show earlier today on the possible extension of the domain name space to include a “.xxx” gTLD.  BBC’s The World is running a show later today … Read more

Next up: podcasting, and legal hurdles

Podcasting is coming your way.  And it’s got a brewing copyright problem locked inside, as Adam Curry muses.  It should be resolvable, but troubling if not resolved up front, much like the overall copyright problem with RSS. Possibly of interest to those curious about this question: Bonneville v. Marybeth Peters, the RIAA, et al.