When was podcasting created

McLemore called Reed out of the blue with a tip about an overlooked murder. But the heart of the story, it turned out, was McLemore himself.

In crafting the show, Reed and Snyder spent a lot of time discussing the novel Stoner, a propulsive portrait of a peculiar personality, and imagining how they might borrow from its structure. In its elliptical structure, its carefully crafted metaphorical resonances, its finely drawn characters, and the cumulative effect of its expert scene building, S-Town adopts a novelistic approach infused with the intimacy of an oral tale. It was also downloaded more than 40 million times that year.

Glass recalls having the feeling way back in while working in public radio that there is a thing radio can be great at — telling stories — yet nobody was using it for that purpose. If you take the bow across the thing. When Glass launched TAL on radio, it was as if he had imagined violin music and figured out how to play it on a banjo; then, ten years later, violins were invented.

With podcasts, that music has found its perfect instrument. I n the beginning, there was little money to be made in podcasts, so no one was making podcasts with the intent of making money. People made podcasts because there was something in the world they found interesting and they had a hunch that someone out there might find it interesting too. Social media, which arrived in our lives around the same time as podcasts, had been heralded as a breakthrough in global connection, but it has become a machine that manufactures discontent.

Take a look at your Twitter feed. It is, by literal design, a great leveler: a cacophonous conversation with all the humanity drained away. The Nobel Prize—winning biologist tweets next to the random anti-vaxxer who tweets next to a Russian bot spreading disinformation. Facebook is worse. The connection promised by social media turned out to be an algorithmic ritual of posting, swiping, scrolling, and liking. Then there are podcasts: cheap, niche, idiosyncratic, weird, and highly personal.

In their myriad varieties, podcasts have emerged as an audio analogue to the spirit of the early internet, Internet 1. But podcasts have an additional appeal — they take that obsession and whisper about it in your ear in the real voice of an actual human. She loved them precisely because they could so comfortably colonize her mind. Podcasts were constant company, audio portals into unexpected worlds. No one listens to a podcast and comes away feeling agitated and slightly guilty, the way you feel after an hour on Facebook.

If the internet is increasingly like a seedy business district you visit reluctantly then regret, podcasts are an invitation you extend to another human being to hijack your consciousness.

The extent to which she persuaded me is evidenced by the fact that — full disclosure — I have also discussed developing a podcast. Radio used to do that, sort of, sometimes, but podcasts introduced portability, accessibility, and a nearly endless selection of subjects on demand. And thanks to the hothouse strangeness of podcast evolution, the hits of the medium are nearly impossible to predict, let alone replicate. Comedy was an early driver of podcasts because comedy is fundamentally about the pleasure of listening to funny people talk.

Also panels of pop-cultural mandarins. Also famous people, who for one reason or another have proved exceedingly willing to reveal themselves to an unprecedented degree once their lips are only inches from a microphone. The one constant, though, through all the standout podcasts is that notion of obsession and connection. Freed from the constraints of attracting a mass audience, podcast creators double down on their enthusiasms and invite you, the listener, to come along.

It really is you. Technology makes podcasts possible, but the experience of consuming podcasts is an oasis from our indentured interaction with screens and passwords and keyboards.

Podcasts appeal to the twin modern manias for constant enrichment and constant escape. What could be more exciting than that? By Nick Tabor and Boris Kachka. Of Planet Money ; now making a show for Luminary.

Started proto-podcast This American Life in Former This American Life producer behind Serial. Longform co-founder co-founded Pineapple Street Media in A former longtime Fox executive, Lopez founded Wondery in with funding from his old employer. A veteran of the Canadian television industry. Joined the CBC to launch its podcast division in Built a successful podcast portfolio that mixes true crime, heartwarming shows, and grand experiments.

Former independent film producer turned podcast co-host with Anna Faris. For some of you, this short history will be a trip down memory lane.

But many reporters have bungled the true history behind the evolution of podcasting. I want to give you the skinny and set the record straight. The true godfathers of podcasting are Dave Winer and Adam Curry. Dave Winer scripting. Podcasting started before the term was even invented, with an idea from a meeting in between Adam and Dave.

The two were talking about automated media distribution. The conversation centered around video rather than audio. Dave was against the idea of a subscription-based system for video downloads. Remember this was before the worldwide leap in the number of Broadband Internet connections. Dave felt the Internet simply had not evolved to the point where it would support large video downloads, not to mention the cost of delivering content.

His analogy was that it was taking longer to download video than it was to play it, and many times the video was poor quality and you really did not know what you were going to get. He wanted a software solution that could download items that he subscribed to.

Dave was already working on Real Simple Syndication RSS - Really Simple Syndication is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. RSS feeds also benefit users who want to receive timely updates from favorite websites or to aggregate data from many sites.

Dave had made some revisions to the original RSS 0. What does this history plus the current trends of the podcasting industry indicate for the future of this medium? What is a podcast? With over 1,, podcasts, there is truly a podcast for everyone.

This term was coined by journalist Ben Hammersley in The Guardian in a about the potential of the then-new medium. But who invented podcasts? The answer to this actually goes back to decades before the term was developed. The show was available as individual audio files interviewing computer experts each week. This was the first revolution of traditional radio broadcasting, where users grabbed individual files and listened at their leisure rather than tuning in to hear whatever was being broadcasted at that time by major radio networks.

Remember AOL. In , he and his company figured out how to attach video and audio files to the RSS format, along with the concept of enclosure, which passed the address to media aggregators. This allowed users to schedule recordings of radio broadcasts and listen to them later, or even automatically download them to their devices.

Lydon was a news anchor, talk show host, and former New York Times reporter. This feed eventually became Open Source and is now the longest running podcast, with new episodes published weekly. During the first-ever BloggerCon in , organized by Winer and friends, Kevin Marks presented a script to download and distribute RSS enclosure feeds to iTunes, which could then be downloaded to iPods which were all the rage, as we remember.

Curry presented a script that moved mp3 files from his blog to iTunes. These were the final puzzle pieces needed to lay the foundation for modern podcasting.