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Podcasting: Still Full of Hippies

Posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins under Mashable

I was promised late last year that the Association for Downloadable Media would begin their crusade to rid the podcasting community of the hippies this year. Given the conversation arising today as a result of my tell-all yesterday, I have to admit a certain eagerness for them to get on with it.

Dave Winer said that I was “full of shit wrong” when it came to podcasting being in any way a business proposition. Paul Colligan told me to stop advertising and make money other ways (echoing Leesa Barnes’ statement). The folks at Podcasting News were so incensed over the whole deal, they put out a hit piece on Mashable in general (calling our news coverage essentially dry and frivolous), and disparaging me in particular as a podcaster without a track record. They eventually dialed back the fervor a little bit and published a piece that addressed Dave Winer’s points directly, and then agrees with my original piece (although, I’d definitely categorize it as “acrimonious agreement”) with the conclusion that “podcasting is a technology, not a world view.”

Unfortunately, everyone is dead wrong on this one. The problem here is one of semantics. For some reason, the word podcasting has gotten all mucked up by hippie philosophical meanderings of the Adam Curry’s and the Dave Winer’s of the world. Folks like Leesa Barnes and Paul Colligan apparently eat it all up. The folks at Podcasting News seem to grasp parts of the separation. Separating the word podcasting from its three diverse but distinct meanings is apparently impossible to do for most people, though.

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