PODLEADERS
Podcast: Doug Kaye, The Conversations Network
23-10-2006
by Tom Raftery
This show Tom's guest is veteran podcaster Doug Kaye. Doug is the founder and CEO of The Conversations Network and CTO of GigaVox Media.
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Doug has been podcasting since before the term was invented!
Here are the questions Tom asked Doug and the times asked:
What is your background in tech and how did you get into podcasting? - 0:50
How did you go from books to podcasts? - 01:48
And the Conversations Network, how did that come about? - 02:25
What is the Conversations Network? - 03:16
The ability to listen to presentations is fantastic, I think. Is that also the feedback of other listeners to IT Conversations? - 05:23
How do you work with the event organisers and get them to allow you to publish their content on your site? - 06:25
Do you pay the event organisers for the content? Do they pay you for publishing it? How does that work? - 07:23
How does the process work, do you approach event organisers to ask for the content, do they approach you or is it a mix? - 08:09
Recently Gigavox Media came out with a product called the Levelator - can you talk a bit about that? - 09:20
What has the feedback been like for it? - 11:43
Audience:
Bernie GoldbachWhere do you think most of your listeners are when they hear IT Conversations? Are they underway? Connected to desktops? Cleaning up the house? Plugged into a home stereo? In the bathroom? - 13:17
What have been your most successful attempts to encourage listener/subscriber interaction? And the least?! (ie voting/rating) - 16:20
Recently Apple has started taking cases against people using the term 'pod' in their products - how do you see this affecting podcasts? - 19:30
Microsoft's Zune and Media Player doesn't support RSS, does this surprise you? - 21:53
With the recent Google/YouTube acquisition and the rise and rise of video, do you see video overtaking podcasts? - 23:35
And finally, where do you see all this going? - 26:37
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