Collecting some stray thoughts on a rainy Monday:

* Podcast recommendation I: Episode 20 of John C. Havens’s About.com Guide to Podcasting, featuring an interview with Nic Wolff of Foneshow. It doesn’t take much a leap to work out that audio content for your mobile phone is an area with huge potential, and Foneshow is making a big play to get into the game. Watch this space for some experimentation of my own with Foneshow.

* Grammar Girl is an outstanding example of why podcasts need accompanying blogs to build community. The Grammar Girl blogsite has 10-50 comments to each post, polls with hundreds of votes, and full transcripts to each show. Mignon Fogarty’s audience after just five and a half months? 60,000 downloads per episode. Want to hear more about her success? Take a listen to my interview with Mignon on Episode 23 of New Comm Road.

* Want to hit the theatre, Second Life style? At 5pm Linden Time (8pm for us East Coasters) tomorrow, Tuesday, January 9, the independent film Four Eyed Monsters will make its debut … and it will happen in in the Sundance Channel screening room, in Second Life. The film will also screen in several other locations throughout SL, including Crayonville.

* Paul Colligan has started an interesting project. For the whole of 2007, he and his family will only consume media via the Internet. No watching broadcast or cable TV. No reading print newspapers or magazines. No buying CDs from the local retailer (though via Amazon is just fine). Indeed, 2007 will be Paul’s “year of living digitally.”

* Who wins this Long Bet?

In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times’ Web site

Dave Winer is banking on blogs. Martin Nisenholtz, CEO of New York Times Digital, naturally, is still betting on mainstream media. Check out Michael O’Connor Clarke’s take as you stew this one over.

* I’m a podcaster, and I don’t yet own an iPod. My 18-month-old iRiver is wearing down, but still gets the job done — both for listening and recording.

* Podcast recommendation II: BizIII. A daily three-minute podcast chock-a-block full of new-media resources and tips. Now, if the site could only enable comments …

* Joseph Jaffe asked these two questions on his Episode 67 of Across the Sound: 1) Would we be willing pay for a 10-minute condensed version of the show? 2) Would we be willing to pay for a transcript of the show and/or executive summary?

My short answers: 1) No 2) No. My longer retort to the second question: If I want a summary of the show, I’ll look at the show notes. Transcripts are just as beneficial to the podcaster as they are to the listener, because they build Google juice.

* My baby boy turned 12 weeks old yesterday!

Amani @ 12 weeks

Happy Monday.

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