Music and Podcasting - what’s in common?
Eliot Van Buskirk writes an interesting post regarding Big Music and MP3 technology on Wired News yesterday. His contention is that Big Music is being forced to adopt MP3 technology just as a weapon against iTunes. He believes that Big Music will ultimately not allow Steve Jobs to run their lives. They’ve played reasonably nice together so far, but maybe Steve has outlived his usefulness to them?
Eliot lists 7 reasons why MP3 has to be seriously considered. I’d tend to agree with him.
So, relative to the title of today’s post, why is that relevant to podcasting? Well, since MP3 is the audio techology that drives the recording and playback files in this podcasting world, it is critical that other peripheral uses stay alive so as to support a standards based audio delivery technology. So, kudos (assuming Eliot is correct) to Big Music for keeping this corner of new media alive!