Comments on: Podcasting comes of age (or not) http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/podcasting-comes-of-age-or-not/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:37:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Christopher Penn, Financial Aid Podcast http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/podcasting-comes-of-age-or-not/#comment-3003 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:59:15 +0000 http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/podcasting-comes-of-age-or-not/#comment-3003 That's consistent with a listener survey I just did. Here's the numbers: 3. Please describe how you listen to the Financial Aid Podcast. Choose all that apply. On a CD player: 3.4% On my computer: 74.6% On my iPod: 30.5% On another kind of MP3 player: 11.9% On a mobile phone: 3.4% Other device: 5.1% Source: http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com/survey The one thing I've wondered about is - do these surveys take into account multi-mode listeners? I listen off the iPod in the car, but from my MacBook at work. That’s consistent with a listener survey I just did. Here’s the numbers:

3. Please describe how you listen to the Financial Aid Podcast. Choose all that apply.

On a CD player: 3.4%
On my computer: 74.6%
On my iPod: 30.5%
On another kind of MP3 player: 11.9%
On a mobile phone: 3.4%
Other device: 5.1%

Source:

http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com/survey

The one thing I’ve wondered about is - do these surveys take into account multi-mode listeners? I listen off the iPod in the car, but from my MacBook at work.

]]> by: Left Of Center » But it is Podcasting if you have no Pod? http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/podcasting-comes-of-age-or-not/#comment-2958 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:27:23 +0000 http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/podcasting-comes-of-age-or-not/#comment-2958 [...] Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog notes that only 20% of podcasts actually make it to an MP3 Player.  So that means that they’re being played on a Media player on the PC/Mac they’re originally downloaded to.  Terry opines that that’s not the intention was. [...] […] Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog notes that only 20% of podcasts actually make it to an MP3 Player.  So that means that they’re being played on a Media player on the PC/Mac they’re originally downloaded to.  Terry opines that that’s not the intention was. […]

]]> by: Holly http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/podcasting-comes-of-age-or-not/#comment-2838 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:57:36 +0000 http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/podcasting-comes-of-age-or-not/#comment-2838 Using the iTunes application on my Mac, I have been subscribing and listening to podcasts for a couple of years. But it was just last year, when I got an iPod for my birthday, that I started actually listening to them on anything other than my laptop. So, does that mean that I just recently moved from the 80% to the 20% of the statistic that Hillis cites? Or is subscribing and listening via iTunes considered downloading for use in a player? Once it's in iTunes, it's in iTunes, and the podcast is on my hard drive, not part of a stream. And why does it matter? I like the iPod a LOT better -- without it, I'd go f***ing nuts at my left-brained job -- but whether it's on my laptop or my iPod, I'm still listening. Maybe I'm missing the point. I do that a lot. LOL. Using the iTunes application on my Mac, I have been subscribing and listening to podcasts for a couple of years. But it was just last year, when I got an iPod for my birthday, that I started actually listening to them on anything other than my laptop. So, does that mean that I just recently moved from the 80% to the 20% of the statistic that Hillis cites? Or is subscribing and listening via iTunes considered downloading for use in a player? Once it’s in iTunes, it’s in iTunes, and the podcast is on my hard drive, not part of a stream.

And why does it matter? I like the iPod a LOT better — without it, I’d go f***ing nuts at my left-brained job — but whether it’s on my laptop or my iPod, I’m still listening. Maybe I’m missing the point. I do that a lot. LOL.

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