Just read an article on Read/WriteWeb about Yahoo! closing it’s Podcasting site. I visited the site when it went live, but I didn’t sense a buy-in from Yahoo! There’s also this latent prejudice I have against Yahoo! that is kind of like the old prejudice against AOL…it’s for noobs.
It’s not bad that Yahoo! is for noobs. It’s an important, valuable and necessary position. It matters, though, that podcasting, so far, has been adopted most intensely by earlier adoptors. That’s why tech shows tend to dominate.
Yahoo! probably jumped on board too soon and they’re probably cutting the cord too soon. The next wave of popularity in podcasting, I’m willing to bet, will be entertainment news. Just like we work to be the engadget of podcasting, someone is going to become the egotastic of podcasting. We would try it but Cali can’t be mean and that’s kind of the bottom line in entertainment news. Entertainment news is for noobs and there are way more noobs in the world that early adopters.
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