I think a goal that has been overlooked is that one of the early drivers behind the project was to see whether the podcasting “community” existed at all and, if it did, could it be mobilised? I think both points have been proved.

Cheers,

Jack.

There are many people out there that probably share the idea behind this movement, but have no idea what a podcast is yet. Give the masses time and fret not meanwhile…

We done good people… we done real good!

For one thing, I have no idea how the chart is compiled. Surely it doesn’t reset to zero every time the clock passes midnight? It might get reset every Sunday night, in which case having the event on a Monday next time might work better. Does anyone actually know what timescale the chart covers? I’d be interested to know.

And like I said above – if we picked a different genre we might see different results. Then there was some comment on the artwork, which seems to have put some others off. But the fact that it made any impact at all is pretty amazing as far as I’m concerned. It’s like anything – you learn from it what you can and move forward.

Remember the story of Edison? (copied from About.com)

“Creators of good luck don’t see a mistake as a failure. Instead, a mistake is an opportunity for learning. Thomas Edison is the classic example. More than 1,000 attempts to invent the first long-lasting electric light bulb led to bulbs that only stayed lit for a few minutes. One of Edison’s colleagues asked him, “Mr. Edison, don’t you feel you are a failure?” Lacking any sense of vanity, he answered, “Not at all. Now, I definitely know more than a thousand ways how NOT to make a light bulb.” He then went on to perfect it.

Getting the song into 2 national top 10’s might be like inventing a bulb that only stays lit for a few minutes – but it’s a pretty good start isn’t it?

I think it would be a terrible shame if the podcasting and blogging community saw this as the end of the road and then got into an internal fight along the lines of “I told you there was no such thing as a podcasting community”. Thousands of people made a statement yesterday. And remember this – podcasting and even blogging is still in its infancy. Just because we’ve been listening to podcasts for a couple of years doesn’t mean it’s mainstream. But the audience grows every week, and every week those people tell their friends and it grows some more. I work in IT and have LOADS of geeky friends who have never even listened to a podcast – it’s early days. Do this again in 3 months or 6 months with a few tweaks and we’ll see better results.

I feel like Pollyanna LOL

Cheers,

Jack.

The apathy of the internet fans to what we were trying to accomplish made it clear to me early on yesterday that we were going to be the laughing stock of the industry at the end of the day. And that apathy plays right into the hands of the RIAA. They can now point to podcasters with confidence and say “See? Not even their own buddies on the internet takes them seriously, so why should we?”

Sorry gents and gentettes, but by doing anything less than we promised in the publicity, I have to conclude we have done nothing but hurt our own cause. Now the question is going to be “Can podcasters bounce back from the debacle of BRTC?”

That will be up to the press coverage of the event. So far, it looks good. I know I sure hope we can bounce back…stay tuned, folks….only time will tell…