The questions were actually [1] "Do you ever use the internet to... Download a podcast so you can listen to it or view it at a later time? Did you happen to do this yesterday, or not?"
Which doesn't seem too misleading to me... Putting in the "listen to it or view it at a later time" text makes it pretty clear, don't you think? It comes back to the point Andrew just made: we have to be careful not to build everything so that it works really well for 10% of the population but is completely confusing to the other 90%. We have to cajole them slowly into using these cool new technologies. Brendan. [1] Source: the actual Pew report, http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Podcasting.pdf, found through five seconds on google. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luke Dicken Sent: 19 December 2006 11:01 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [backstage] democracyplayer [...] The concept of "downloading" a podcast is redundant. Its liking asking someone how often they "receive a radio signal" on their television. Other stuff downloads the podcasts for you, it not something you do or are even aware of. If you had to ask joe schmoe on the street what happened when you downloaded a podcast, with a rudimentary understanding of podcasting, he'd most likely equate it to subscribing to the feed. The study the article is based from is ridiculous, asking technically correct but horribly worded questions, and thus the article, and conclusions drawn based on it are just nonsense. [...] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
