Is podcasting at its 14th minute?

What's a vod? I hate the terms vlog and vodcasting. I think "podcasting" is a big enough term to accomodate video and audio. My company will certainly be producing both for clients, because different content will require different approaches. Audio will be much cheaper. Video will be much more expensive. "Podcasting" for me means making content available on on-demand. A radio station and a television station are both broadcasting, meaning, their goal is to get to as many people as possible. In podcasting, the stakes are different. You're searching for niche audiences, and the more specific, the better. That's podcasting. All podcasters have done such a great job of getting this term, "podcasting", into the public sphere. Why muddy it up by coming up with a new term that doesn't make any sense? Tell me what a vod is.

Peter, Rapidweaver (http://www.tuaw.com/2005/07/14/rapidweaver-adds-podcast-support/) is popular here at TUAW, and with good reason. It's a really easy way to create blogs with auto updating RSS feeds, or feeds which include podcasts. The interface is gorgeous simplicity, too. It's definitely worth a shot.

I love this Dialogue! Everybody is Right on this. Vlogs will sit along side Podcasts depending on what turns you on. Now we have the choice. Lets get Vlogging!

I say video podcasts. I really hate just listening to people talk. I am a visual person. That's why I am experimenting with video podcasts already, and have my own travel vodcast on iTunes (Don Pedro's travels, find it if you search for Bahamas). The only thing is i have to figure out a way to create a tool or automator action that makes creating the XML entries easy, editing them in TextEdit is not all that fun. or is there a tool for that already? Anyway: audio podcasts: OUT (my opinion, everybody has his own prefs) video podcasts: IN And with that I mean for "consumption" on the computer. I don't know how it will be on the road on the new iPod (cool I bet at least for commuters in the cities).

clutch makes an uneducated assumption. "vodcasting" does not require more than what most alreaady have. 1. a camera (you can use your digital still or webcam take internet-quality video) 2. editing software (windows XP and OSX come with free video editing programs which work great) 3. Bandwidth (Ourmedia.org, blip.tv, both offer unlimited bandwidth, unlimited server space and the assurance that your content will be on the internet long after you die FOR FREE!!!) 4. Time (you can film something and then directly upload it, blip even has a service that will record from safari and post it to your blog immediatley, you can email video posts from a phone and they will post it directly, remember this is all free, you can take days to edit an epic video, or 15 minutes to make a number of posts [check out www.speedvlogging.com]) Do some research, then start talking....

not a big user of podcasts. and i'll admit i was very skeptical of the whole video on iPod idea. still am actually. i do think it would be great if the same people who are providing podcasts do vodcasts or whatever they're called. personally id love a FREE version of SportsCenter downloaded to my iPod before the morning commute so i can watch it on the train. now THAT would be cool. hell, even included targeted ads in there to make someone think they're making money.

The one big thing that this article and all the comments have neglected to mention is that podcasts have proliferated mostly because the cost of entry into the medium--equipment, bandwidth and time all being considered--is minimal. To produce a podcast, all one truly needs is a decent microphone, a copy of Audacity, somewhere to host the feed, and maybe an hour or two, depending on how long and how complex the show format is. Compare that to what a vodcast requires: a decent video camera, a copy of (insert video editing program here), a not-insubstantial amount of bandwidth, and a great deal more time than an hour to edit it. Don't get me wrong: I think vodcasts are going to flourish with the backing of the iPod. What I just can't believe, however, is that it will spark the same kind of revolution that podcasting was and, arguably, still is.

Podcasts are still free, until they aren't they win

As one person put it, they both have their place and I don't think one will replace the other. Rather I see video and audio podcasting co-existing. In the niagra falls example, for instance, yes I would want to watch a video of the guy going over the falls, but if I had to listen to Rush Limbaugh or Al Franken pontificate on the subject, I would rather listen to them than watch them talking into a microphone. So, I think you will see video shorts, not unlike the types of documentary shorts you see on Current, or news stories from FOX News and CNN, being popular on the video side, and commentators such as Limbaugh or Franken popular on the audio side. The one thing to remember about video is that there is more involved in production and unless it is content that is being repurposed from a news channel or some other medium, I don't think you will see many going out to create a video podcast. However, I can see video podcasts that are instructional how-to types of things being popular on a small device. I think for video podcasts to really take off, I think you will need iPod devices with wifi so you can download them directly to the device so you do not have the download and transfer from the pc. of course, issues like this will be resolved as the technology evolves.

Honestly people, catch up with the times...you can call them what you will but video blog/vlog are the 2 most popular terms second, NZ needs to cool his jets when it comes to ripping on independant video creators...there is so much good content out there it is way too hard to sift through. I try to do that at joshspsicks.blogspot.com but it is hard to keep up with it all. Third, DTV is an infant of a program compared to FireANT. It is made especially for the video blog, with tagging, flagging, commenting, filtering, it has it all. (and will soon have ipod video-export) getfireant.com fourth, this advent of the ipod that does video, is just crying for short-length, small filesize, 3X4 aspect ratio content...Where do we find this content for free? Video blogs. fifth, really interested in video blogging? go to www.wearethemedia.com, to find out what's going on in the "vlogosphere" and then drop the microphone, and start your own at freevlog.org the media revolution is upon us, don't fall behind.