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Listed below are comments made by Sketchy1210 between Monday, 17th November 2008 and Monday, 23rd March 2009.

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Time for an audio revolution 5:50pm on 23 Mar 2009 I think we're also confusing the processes of creation and curation, which require very different skills and have significantly different barriers to entry. GarageBand has tried to push its Podcast tools quite actively; maybe not everyone wants to create their own Podcasts?

This is a great analysis Rory, and I agree with the overall theme/question of why online video has hit the masses in a greater way than audio. There is definitely an opportunity to do audio in a "consumer-friendly" capacity - e.g. self expression using shared playlists, or Blip.fm - Twitter for music.

Mixcloud, however, is not trying to do this, and that explains some of the limitations. We want it to be a platform for professional DJs/radio hosts to get their content distributed and heard more effectively. Our focus is on extended audio, not songs. As you rightly say, we are very keen to expand into the talk/speech space, but don't want to rush into this as we'd like to ensure we have to correct tools to help listeners filter the content to find relevancy.

The great thing about music shows is that the tracklist provides immediate, rich metadata. Talk radio is slightly more challenging.

In that sense, we are not so much like YouTube as our objective is not necessarily to lower the barrier to entry, but rather to tap into the collective wisdom of the experts.

Would love to hear people's thoughts on this.
Automatically linking artists and news on the BBC Music Beta 2:48pm on 17 Nov 2008 Great, creative hack. Love it!

Good way to avoid getting bogged down in semantic analysis and suchlike.

It's very interesting how Myspace pages are in many places becoming a tool for authentication. What happens when people finally stop using their Myspaces?! It's happening... slowly but surely.

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