An early history of podcasting
Podcasting had only been called podcasting for mere moments when a group would convene on the first podcasting seminar at BloggerCon 3 in November of 2004. Just three months before, Adam Curry had launched Daily Source Code as the first regularly produced-for-podcast show, in hopes of giving programmers around the world a real-word program to test with. In the months between, podcasting would evolve so quickly it was already producing its own household names: Slusher, Butler, Rice, RocketBoom, Reel Reviews…
I’ve listened to all of the [tag]podcast[/tag]s in the article at one point or another. In the early days (OK, December 2004), there weren’t that many, and the bigger ones all linked to each other and made it easy to find. [tag]Coverville[/tag] (Happy 200th, Brian!) is the only one I still listen to religiously, while I check in with Daily Source Code every once in a great while.
Nowadays, there’s an awful lot of crap run by people with no intention to do anything interesting or faithfully. The term podfading was coined for a reason.
In any case, the article linked above is an interesting sampler of whatever happened to some of the earliest people in this new medium.
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