With momentum in the consumer market, what is podcasting's role in the enterprise?
A year and a half ago, John Robb gave the specifications for a National Information Network. His proposal for hospitals, intelligence officers, soldiers, and first responders to exchange information states that the network must feature:
Writing before podcasts’ explosion, he didn’t write about podcasting specifically, but he does note that blogging technologies and RSS enclosures support multiple data types. Podcasting in that National Information Network might be used to transfer audio for analysis (eg interrogations, battlefield conversations) or audio to be translated. Subsequent analyses and translations may be republished to the network.
A year and a half ago, John Robb gave the specifications for a National Information Network. His proposal for hospitals, intelligence officers, soldiers, and first responders to exchange information states that the network must feature:
- A decentralized architecture for publishing and consuming information (via Really Simple Syndication -- RSS).
- Real-time information flow through the use of a search engine (ie. Google appliances) and prompted indexing (through weblog pings to the search engine when new posts are published).
- Ad hoc connections and information flow through RSS subscriptions (an RSS aggregator ala Bloglines, NewsGator, Radio, or Technorati).
- Scalable systems -- already demonstrated via the millions of weblogs on the Web today.
Writing before podcasts’ explosion, he didn’t write about podcasting specifically, but he does note that blogging technologies and RSS enclosures support multiple data types. Podcasting in that National Information Network might be used to transfer audio for analysis (eg interrogations, battlefield conversations) or audio to be translated. Subsequent analyses and translations may be republished to the network.