What are the implications of blogging technology on established media? 

In the article “From Tom Paine to Blogs and Beyond” Dan Gillmor presents implications of blogging technology stating that it remains with you forever and the content can and will be heard worldwide.  He references the September 911 attacks and how many people across the nation were typing on their web blogs the day of the event, expressing their feeling of emotions form the attack.  These messages were discovered across the world and embedded into people’s lives forever. Blogs, a type of written journalism, is openly available for everyone to hear and judge or apply to ones own life!   Through this open source, people are able to find out instant information whether accurate or not and can obtain more information instantaneously from the internet through online blogging and online journalism.

NPR’s podcast is a great option for NPR lovers to have right in their hands wherever they go.  Since this 2005 article, NPR has done its research and is making the consumer happy, which is the best solution to this issue of Podcast’s.  Furthermore, getting the public radio information out to its audience without too much advertising in the way is also a plus.  In this article, all the implications for podcast appear to be good and favored by the public.  It is in high demand by the consumers and therefore would be an effective tool to have for the everyday busy person that wants to be able to turn to NPR at their leisure.  Shorter content for the listener will keep them engaged and adopting a philosophy along with the model will benefit both the radio station and audience members.  NPR is making content available by thinking smart and listening to what the consumer wants and needs for everyday convenience.

Questions:

Is Pod Casting the same as Blog TV?  How are they the same or different?

If Pod Cast is used for the Apple IPOD, is there another similar feature that works for MP3 players or black berry phones, etc.?

Do you think in the future of our ever so growing technological society, all small hand held devices will eventually have the option of pod casting or TV blogging?