I keep having to answer the question of what I think about Podcasting 2.0, I thought I should say it clearly, in a podcast of course. 😀

A lightly edited quote from this cast: "Podcasting is in trouble and needs our help and it needs good ideas that accentuate the power of having no boundaries between different voices. You can listen to my podcast and you can listen to one that comes from somebody else, from a big company if you want to. There are no gatekeepers. There's nobody who controls what you can listen to here. And that's important. That's powerful. That makes it a place for creativity, and for art, and for really unpopular ideas, because it's open."

It's insidious to form an organization whose name says you own the future of something that is open. Even the W3C wasn't that brazen, even Apple said they wanted developers to innovate on their platform. But claiming to be the 2.0 of something as hugely consequential as podcasting is not supportable and I can't overlook it.

I've proposed an innovation in podcasting, for the benefit of everyone, and I could have done it even if I didn't even know what a freaking podcast is (but I do).

I'm tired of people trying to own things that are unownable.

There's a transcript.