I’ve been enjoying reading Barb Dybwad over at the SocialSoftware-WeblogsInc. site. Yet another discovery of Judith Meskills (she also the one who turned me onto Peter Caputa) - Barb has been following ‘community video’ and now podcasting - asking simple questions like “do these technologies live up to their hype?”
I never worry about issues like that - but I’m sure others are.

So you go Barb - us communities need you to represent us.

Here’s Barb’s most recent post:

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Yesterday we talked about the advent of social video and how that seems to be booming in the blogosphere.
Podcasting, however, which has been on the scene longer (not to mention that audio enclosures have been around far
longer than the term ‘podcasting’ has been around), came out in a blaze of glory when popularized late last year by
Adam Curry and Dave Winer and yet — is it living up to the hype? Given that the cadre of optimistic technologists came
out early with unrealistic claims about how podcasting would be the death of radio, but what exactly is
realistic to predict for the growth of podcasting? Despite suspiciously
overinflated (and later
retracted) internet studies showing podcasting audiences
in the multi-million range, not everyone is smoking the
podcasting dope. So my question for you, dear readers, is this: are you smoking the dope?

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