Now reporting live from Long Beach, California, where it’s smokey (due to the fires), and I’m up on the 6th floor of a particular hotel with my $10 internet charge paid for, I continue my Tiger-to-Leopard blog series. Yesterday, I started out covering some of the Web 2.0 news, in particular focusing on the various Web 2.0 sites that have emerged on the internet. But what about some of the other phenomena that have emerged since Tiger’s release? The series continues…
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The 1990s saw the rise of a new phenomenon on the radio: call-in talk shows. As most of you know, the idea behind this is a host who leads the show and often offers his/her opinions on something, and then answers calls from listeners who can then contribute their comments. Then, the 2000s saw the rise of another new radio phenomenon: podcasting. Radio shows can now be recorded and distributed online so that listeners can listen at their convenience, and podcasting also opens the door for smaller podcast-only productions (as in shows that don’t go on the actual radio). It would only be a matter of time until talk shows and podcasting came together, and the result of that mix is a fairly new website called TalkShoe.
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Tags: live, podcasting, recording, review, TalkShoe, talkshow, VoIP