Fred Wilson Drops Podcasting As "Too Hard"

Fred is dropping the hard work of podcasting:

[from A VC: Positively 10th Street RIP]

Here's where I come out on podcasting:

It's a fun thing to do for a while. But it's really hard to sustain. It requires setting things up, getting a show together, and then editing the audio, making sure the sound is right, and then uploading the file to a hosting service, and then publicizing it.

In the end it was too much work.

I agree totally. Just because I enjoy blogging doesn't mean that I want to podcast. I am an essayist, not a radio shock jock.

tags: fred+wilson, podcasting

Comments

[Jevon]

I am in the same place, I am just not a broadcaster.

I am, however, a listener, and podcasts have opened up a who new world for me, and I am thankful for that.

[Stuart Bruce - Wolfstar]

Absolutely agree. I'm starting to do podcasts for certain clients, if and only if it is the best way of communicating. For me, and the vast majority of people I know, it is simply far too much like hard work.

[Scott]

Because someone uses audio instead of typing, they are a "radio shock jock" while the writer is an "essayist?" Yeah, because no writers ever spout nonsense or pull stuff out of their butts.

Anyway, these are two totally different endeavors, most bloggers are NOT podcasters, nor should they be. Whenever I hear other bloggers whining about how much time it takes, I always immediately think "try podcasting then." With a blog, you think of something that hits you suddenly, you fire up MarsEdit or whatever you use, and in a couple minutes it's up on the blog and you move on with life.

Totally different. I've never understood people who compare them as though there's some meaningful relationship between blogging and podcasting. There isn't.

[Mike McDerment]

For FreshBooks' Build Your Business Teleseminar/Podcast series we use our conference call service (http://conferencecallsunlimited.com) to record our calls...they send us an MP3 of the call afterwards, which we use as a podcast. Easy.

[Carter Harkins]

I agree that bloggers are not inherently podcasters and vice-versa, but why should the two be mutually exclusive? New technologies make commenting along the timeline of a podcast very easy for bloggers, and in this way, they can participate interactively with audio or video content, even if they weren't the ones who created it. Audio and video comments are becoming fashionable, too, which opens up whole new worlds of possibility for those who don't particularly care for keyboards and spellcheckers. I think we are seeing a blur in the lines between textual, audio and video content on the web, and with bloggers (or online essayists, if you prefer) describing audio/visual content (and associating their content with the a/v stuff in a contextually relevant way) there is no reason why a person could not use all these tools to make the most effective use of the New Medium.

Carter Harkins
Podcaster, Blogger, and Podcast Technology Innovator
http://innertoob.com