links for 2005-10-02

NY Times today explores podcasting to the faithful: Kyle Lewis, 25, missed going to church one Sunday last month. But he did not miss the sermon. Mr. Lewis, who regularly attends services of the National Community Church in Alexandria, Va., listened to the sermon while he was at the gym, through a recording he had…

Forbes: “Every era has its prized commodity, cherished for its value and utility–gold in the 1850s, oil in the 1870s, water out West in the 1940s. Ours is data … we present the Masters of Information–those entrepreneurs and companies figuring out how to separate the gold from the gravel on the Web.” [via PaidContent.org]

PodBlaze offers a white paper on the business impact of podcasting.  It was airplane reading for me recently and it does have a number of interesting nuggets, as well as some data on forecasted growth.  At times it is a little awkward to read and it veers between a business and a technical perspective —…

PubSub‘s Bob Wyman offers two interesting posts as part of Global PR Blog Week 2.0 describing what prospective search is and how it can benefit clients needing blog monitoring.  It’s a subject I have particular interest in since it is the primary methodology we use at CustomScoop for our online media monitoring. Come to think…

Steve Rubel: "Reuters has launched a new program that converts the text of its news reports into podcasts." Good to see Reuters innovating on news presentation.  But if you read the comments on Steve’s post, you’ll see that the implementation leaves something to be desired.

Rocketboom, a nifty little daily web video news spoof site, plans to try subscription fees to monetize their content.  BusinessWeek reports that their current free approach is getting eyeballs. The approach is resonating with viewers. Daily downloads have doubled in the past six weeks, to 50,000. If they stay on that pace, they’ll soon approach…