Podcasts worth buying

REXBLOG -- Although it's doubtful that the solo podcaster will ever make a working wage from writing and producing podcasts, several kinds of podcasts deserve highlighting because they have commercial value. Rex Hammock offers a list of podcast material worth buying in a pay-per-track fashion.

From Rexblog with modifications:

1. City tours. You could listen to the streets of medieval Kilkenny as you walked through them. You could get tips that present a "Ligger's List of Dublin" along with specific instructions about where to queue for openings and promotions. Produce a series of "jogging from your hotel" directions that tells a jogger what he or she is running by.
2. Mash-up music-news programming. Buy a 30 minute program of business news each morning that had jock-jam-type music in the background playing at an easy-going jogger's pace.
3. Seminar sessions. Produce the guts of every €300 conference held in Ireland as a podcast. As Rex says, "Rather than cannibalize your registration revenue, your session downloads are merely samplers for getting people to attend future meetings".
4. MP3 books. Some of our multimedia students at Tipperary Institute read chapters of books selected from the "essential readings" list into podcast channels already.
5. Motivational, self-help, weight-loss, exercise, how-to audio. This sells on Audible.com already. Rex goes further: "Personally, I nominate Merlin Mann of 43folders.com to pioneer this -- I'd pay to subscribe to anything he produces".
6. Acoustiguide should sell anything they produce via iTunes.
7. CEO babbles. If a CEO has the time to write a full-page e-mail, it might be better to converse about the subject by recording the written item as a podcast. Bill Gates could podcast ramblings that later become chapters of his new book and sell both. Bono could podcast how to make poverty history and feed the revenue to Africa.

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Rex Hammond -- "Podcasts I'd pay for" via Dave Winer.

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