On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 05:41:59 +0200, Pat Cook (Jeeper One TV) 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I never said on the podcasters group that a Podcast-A-Thon wouldn't
> work (though admittedly I did use those words, which was a poor
> judgement on my part).  What i was aiming at was the fact that it
> would have to be done differently than the original poster had
> thought.  I basically said that about the only way it would work was
> if there was a centralized place with a lot  of bandwidth for one to
> upload their podcasts (a.k.a KYOURadio.com, which would be prime for
> something like this assuming Viacom would be interested in pitching
> in) and for people to subscribe to the feed and download podcasts.

That would be a very weird way to do such a thing. Forget this centralised 
service idea - it's dead just like PBS tele-thons are dead.

A central collector is valuable, but let people host and control their own 
content. Take advantage of the web. Have people create their blog entries, 
have them tag them as 'vlogathon'. Now you have a free collection point at 
the Technorati tag page. If you want to go further than that have people 
send a trackback ping to vlogathon.org.

The infrastructure for something like this should only take about five 
seconds to implement (if you use Technorati) to a day (if you want your 
own collection point).

- Andreas
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