Podcasting Lollapalooza

Posted by: Heather Green on November 09

Wired has a really fun read about a big podcasting conference this weekend and a tiff between the organizer (and podcaster) Tim Bourquin and the always colorful Adam Curry.

The backdrop is that Curry’s in a delicate situation. With his startup PodShow, he’s trying to pull together a small group of handpicked podcasters and surround it with a broad network made up of the rest of the world. That naturally creates tension. Especially since the goal is to create a massive network that Podshow can take to advertisers.

Last week, Curry and his partner Rob Bloom began pulling together a core group of 30 to 50 podcasters, including the Mommycast and Dawn and Drew into something called the Podcast Delivery Network. Other podcasters will be invited to become part of that network over time. Over this core network alone, they say they attract three to four million listeners.

The next step is to pull together the other services that they helped create, including the PodcastAlley and iPodder.org directories, which track around 10,000 shows, into one big network.

Big goals against a backdrop of plenty of people who are wary about capitalizing on podcasting.

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