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August 30, 2007

Podcasting and Web 2.0

A lot of interesting talk at last night's meetup in New York of the NYC Podcasting Association.

The group's founder, Doug Kersten led a discussion of Web 2.0 attributes and techniques, particularly as they relate to podcasting. There was a lot of lively back and forth - as usual at these events, every participant had a slightly different definition for "Web 2.0," but, perhaps surprisingly, it was all done with good humor and with mutual respect.

I think the consensus was that the primary difference between "web 1.0" and "web 2.0" is that the former tends to be monodirectional, while the latter, as one of the other participants put it, is "simply the social networking web." Doug Kersten thinks that podcasting is definitely part of the 2.0 mashup, even though, as others pointed out, it is essentially a one-way medium - you listen to podcasts, you don't carry on conversations with them, for the most part.

Anyway, a worthwhile meeting - and a good turnout, particularly during the week leading up to Labor Day.

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