Doing it the old-fashioned newspaper way,
USA Today
sent a reporter and photographer off to the wilds of Wisconsin to
capture an image of Dawn Miceli, with headphones, magenta hair, iBook
and husband, Drew Domkus, producing their
Dawn & Drew Show, a daily half hour characterized as "married-couple banter."
The
Lifestyle section piece uses the evening with Dawn and Drew as
bookends around a clear intro to the downloadable audio program
phenomenon, including an interview with pioneer podcaster Adam Curry,
and more.
Another
USA Today
reporter,
writing from Seattle, told the
Money section story, including a
technical how-to sidebar, examples from local rock bands to NPR talk
to musings of "an angry drag queen," and comments on Apple's
apparent lack of interest in podcasting, despite the
role of its iPod MP3 player in inspiring the form. Additional
business-oriented comments come from Microsoft, Curry, blog-savvy PR
guy Steve Rubel and others.
The two stories are headlined
Podcasting: It's all over the dial (by Marco R. della Cava) and
Radio to the MP3 degree: Podcasting (by Byron Acohido).
Weblogger
Lisa Williams added
podcasting to her meticulous topic headings some time ago, but (judging from the comments) has a hit on
her hands with her
four minute video about podcasting. Since telling
the story in sound and pictures is the point for discussion, I won't
summarize the package here. Go watch! (The original version requires Real Media
Player, but there was some talk about converting it to other formats. See her weblog for more info.)
