Geeksheets New Scientist and Wired have featured stories on the wonder of podcasting. Download new music, interviews, comedy sketches, even bible stories straight to an MP3 player of your choice thanks to iPodder. It also lets anyone with rudimentary computer skills start their own amateur broadcasting. Podcasting avoids the licensing fees, advertising crap and regulation that AM/FM stations face.
It's almost as easy as blogging and with a lot less typing required! Check out iPodder for a glimpse of the possibilities. What a great way to do interviews and cover the election... :-)
Any reason National Radio isn't streamed? It's good enough for RadioActive, Kiwi, NewstalkZB, bFM, MoronFM, and ZMFM (Note: spits the dummy in Firefox).
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National Radio has major problems rebroadcasting content, because of the maze of copyright laws that need to be worked through before they can decide what can and can't be put on the web. Lots of shows are from third-party agencies (bbc, npr), and they'd probably need to jack up some kind of agreement as to what they could rebroadcast. Likewise there's a lot of incidental music in things like the music docos and reviews, for which permission to use the music in question would (technically) need to be okayed before being put out on the web.
As a state-funded agency, it's been decided by the powers that be that they'd better play on the safe side, while copyright laws catch up with the reality of the situation, and they can proceed on a clearer legal footing.
It's all very well for commercial enterprises to work in the grey area of online streaming, but there would doubtless be some muck-raking done by opposition MPs if taxpayer-funded National Radio was to suddenly start 'flouting' existing copyright law.
Cheers, James!
damn you james!
you said what i was going to say! how the hell do you manage it? i mean you ACTUALLY have a job!
aha, if it's information, it's my job...
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