Podcasting is dead - gigantic compilations will be the next stage of digital revolution
Ok, ok, I know it is from a press release ... From AudioBooksForFree.com
"We have managed to put five years of audiobook listening on nine ordinary DVDs in one boxset. When we move to double-layers DVDs, we will be able to store ten years of listening in one boxset. With arrival of new generations of DVDs - Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, VMD, FCD and HVD, we will be able to store up to 240 years in one boxset. This amassing ability to store so much in one portable product will force publishers to embrace Gigabulk. In a few years Gigabulk will make downloading, podcasting, p2p and all other formas of on-demand deliveries obsolete and largely irrelevant."
Some thoughts on this.
Isn't this just packaging choice. This ignores "smart downlaods" of gigabulk distribution, two years to download, five years to listen ... this also would imply people would be willing to wait for new contnet until they amassed enough to gigabulk. Or would we take updates in gigachunks or microgigs? How about a "long tail gigabulk boxed set" form Technorati? Let me call Sifry now.
