Podcast Guide Stories 05.30 [7:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

It’s Friday on the podcast guide, which means Lewis and Rian are wrapping up the week with some of their favorite stories they heard out in the podosphere. This the stories involve China, Boats, and Slurppies! Enjoy!

• Intro Music: One Phat DJ - Crecendo (site)
• China’s Roller Coaster Ride to the Olymics - PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer (site)
• A Rags to Yaughts Story - NPR Business Story of the Day (site)
• Brainfreeze Wired Magazine Podcast (site)

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I take the bus every morning, and for some reason I’ve developed this habit of looking at people’s ears while I’m sitting there. No, I don’t have any creepy ear fetishes; I just like to see how many people are listening to iPods.

I’ve started to realize something. At least on my morning bus route, the vast majority of people who have the white earbuds dangling from their ears sit in the back of the bus. The people in the front are usually chatting with their friends, powdering their nose, or just staring blankly ahead. Nearly everyone in the back is listening to their iPod.

I’ve even started making a game of it. I call it “check-the-ears, predict-the-seat.” Ok, I don’t actually have a name for it, but I have found that if I look at a person’s ears when they get on the bus, I can usually predict if they’ll make their way to the back or dump themselves into the first available seat.

So who cares? Well, some day in the future I may be interested in throwing some ads up inside buses. The kinds of ads I want to put in there would specifically be targeted to iPod listeners. So, if I can get them into the back somewhere, at least if it were on Route #7, they’d probably be more effective.

DISCLAIMER: Although my data collection methods may seem foolproof, sitting on a bus and looking at people’s ears isn’t actually considered a scientific process. It’s probably not safe to base any million dollar ad campaigns off these findings quite yet.

 

 How? Podcasts [7:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week on the Podcast Guide we are focusing on those podcasts that attempt to answer the age old question: “How?” Earlier this week we talked about the One Minute How-To, and had a great interview with the host, George. Today we are talking about some other fantastic podcasts of this genre. Be sure to check them all out and add them to your favorites on DailySplice. If this the kind of stuff you’re into, you could even create a “How?” splice and get them all delivered together every day! Leave a comment here if you know of more podcasts like this. Enjoy!

Today we talked about:

• MicrobeWorld (site)
• BrainStuff (site)
• The Get it Done Guy (site)

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I haven’t played many video games since high school, but the recent hubbub around Grand Theft Auto 4 has led me to revisit my favourite childhood pastime. Who knew the industry would become such a money machine. Anyways, enough of my ignorance. If you want to get up to speed and keep up to speed on the latest video game news and reviews, listen to the Daily PWN. (Pronounced own. It’s l33tspeak - don’t ask). It features reviews of the latest games, platforms, and and other subjects in the domain of geekdom. It’s very short - only a few minutes at the most, and the host is clear, concise and obviously enthusiastic about gaming. Computer or console gaming fans simply must check this out.

 

 One Minute How-To Spotlight [7:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Yesterday we interviewed George from the One Minute How-To podcast, and as always we are following up with a little spotlight on the podcast today on our wicked show Wednesday.  This podcast is not only interesting and entertaining, but it is short and produced regularly, which makes it an idea show for the DailySplice directory. Be sure to add it to your favorites! George also inhabits a number of other places on the web including another podcast, a photo site and a blog. We hope you enjoy.

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If you like history, you have got to add History According to Bob to your splice. This guy knows his history, and he offers great little 10-15 minute lectures every single weekday as an audio podcast. It’s easy to listen to, and always interesting. It’s like getting college history lessons for free!

 

 One Minute How-To Interview [7:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

It’s Intertuesday again, which means we’ve got another fantastic interview for you. This week we are talking with the one and only George L. Smyth from the One Minute How-To podcast. We love this podcast, and strongly encourage you to add it to your favorites on DailySplice because it makes a perfect little addition to your splice.  We hope you enjoy the interview, and stay tuned tomorrow for more on this podcast!

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I’m revisiting the issue of podcast numbers out there, because this is an important factor in our service and its implications.

Feedburner reports that it currently serves 230,000 audio and video podcasts. That’s a sizeable number already, but what percentage of total podcasts do they host?

A couple weeks ago, I wrote that DailySplice’s directory has about 1000 podcasts (a fairly small directory so far, but growing steadily.) Feedburner hosts about 33% of those, indicating that there could be over 650,000 podcasts out there.

We’ve since acquired a list of 33,000 podcasts from various hosts. By hosts, I mean the server that provides the RSS file, not the media files themselves (although that’s an interesting issue as well.) The largest RSS hosts are:

• Blogtalkradio, which hosts about 16%;
• Feedburner, which hosts about 10%;
• Libsyn, which hosts about 7%

These numbers are quite a departure to what I’ve seen in the DailySplice directory; I didn’t expect Feedburner’s contribution to be as low as 10%. This list contains only 1% of Feedburner’s total hosted feeds. The numbers for blogtalkradio seem to be in the same ballpark: only about 6% of blogtalkradio’s  87,000 shows are in this list. If the percentage of listed podcasts are the same for other hosts, this could indicate that there are between 550,000 and 3.3 million podcast feeds out there. The latter number seems outlandish, so I intend to do some more verification when more data is available. I’ll also take a look at how many of these are actively producing new content, which will be a more convincing measurement of podcast growth.

 

 Podcast Guide Reviews 05.26 [7:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome to yet another week of podcasting from DailySplice! This week we’re going to be taking a look at those podcasts that aim to answer the question: How? We’ll be doing an interview with the One Minute How-To Podcast on Tuesday, followed by a spotlight on the show on Wednesday, and talking about 3 more how? podcasts on Thursday. But first, here’s our quite 5 minutes of reviews for this week:

• Pickup Podcast (site)
• Fitness Attack (site)
• Traveler’s Journal (site)
• the Chrissy and Brian Show (site)
• Get it Done Guy (site)
• Slate Magazine Daily Podcast (site)
• ReadWriteTalk (site)
• Democracy Now! (site)
• Wine Experience (site)
• BrainStuff (site)
• Secrets of the Job Hunt (site)
• Money Girl (site)

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Well, the term spamcast has been around for many years (almost as long as podcast) but it hasn’t really been a huge deal… until now. Blubrry recently had to remove over 100 spamcasts from it’s directory and block some domains. These are podcasts that are created and submitted all around the Internet mainly to gain pagerank and show up in SERPS for certain terms. The creator may only spend about 20 minutes work on the podcast, and then an automated service takes over from there. Check out this post on podcasting news, and research a bit more into the companies involved if you dare.