Podfading

This is no shock. Heck, you see similar things all over the web. Take a look at the number of abandoned comic book web sites or columnists, even. . .

It would be too easy for me to give up on my two podcasts, tempting though it might sometimes be. It won’t be due to overwhelming success, though. My two podcasts aren’t burning up any top ten lists anywhere. . . But they have been going weekly for more than a year now, which is more than 95% of podcasts today can say.

Wired News: Podfading Takes Its Toll

Podcasting has drawn thousands on the premise that anyone can create an audio program, build an audience online and even vault to stardom. Less celebrated is the fact that untold numbers of shows just wink out just as suddenly as they started. The phenomenon has earned its own label, “podfading,” coined by podcaster Scott Fletcher in February 2005 when he gave up on two podcasts of his own.

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