Yes, there is someone who’s trying to save all the podcasts ever made, according to Wired News. As documentary filmmaker and amateur historian Jason Scott explains on his blog, “I’m certainly not looking to start a business as a podcast…

I wish I had the resources to archive all the Mp3 blogs running. While I’m very interested in the historical value of the spoken word, I’m a little more interested in the historical value of music development — especially the more obscure music that tends to turn up in feeds like Knobtweakers.net.

I am keeping a complete archive of Knobtweakers, of course — since it’s my blog, it’s fairly trivial to do. One day, I’d like to donate a copy of the collection to a true collector, like yourself, if such a person exists…

What would be even more interesting, is to put key players together into a room and record the conversation. I certainly have a lot of really cool information that I don’t put into the blog (because it’s not really an appropriate forum for it). An interview documentary like the one you did for the BBS scene would be very cool.

Sadly, one of the key players in electronic music Mp3 blogs has already passed away. I hope somebody takes it up soon. This is a critical time for audio bloggers — mainstream media is starting to notice that we exist, but I would still say that we represent a niche culture, and few or none of us are being unduly influenced by politics or business…

I think it’s still safe to say, the vast majority of us are doing what we do primarily because we love it, and that almost always produces some cool content.

- Eric

No new podcasts today, but some new postings over at Blogging Alone .

The time when telephones were introduced did not have ways to record human speech in that way; it came later.

It is well known that the recording of music changed how music was played, because it affected how people percieved it (they could now hear themselves and instead of taking music and moving it in different ways through the years, they had a set “form” for some subtle aspects that they started to emulate).

So go ahead, spread it around, although I don’t know if it’s that groundbreaking.

Starting to think about MY time on earth and record it. Someone will need it in the future!

Dazz

Your archive is incomplete, and has a business agenda, however small. This is absolutely cool, absolutely neat. We are not in the same place, not working from the same motivations, and not working towards the same goals. This is, again, absolutely cool.

I see that this is starting to become a drumbeat for you. (http://www.webtalkradio.com/blog/87.shtml) I especially like the “It is not a dream, it is being built and is operational right now.”

My archive isn’t a dream either. I past 90gb this morning.

Anyway, like I said, I love your work, go for it, the more collections out there the better. I’m sure archive.org will come along and kick both our asses.

It is not a dream, but is being built and is operational right now.

Rob Greenlee
WebTalkRadio.com
DownloadRadio.org

Great idea about archiving Podcasts–I would like to extend an invitation to you to come on the Mr. X and Just Julie Podcast via Skype and talk some more about it–I find it very fascinating and I think my listeners would as well–Add us to your Skype list (if you use Skype) with the name “ifthensoftware”

If you see me online, Skype in–I only run Skype when the show is recording. (Yes, anyone can Skype into the show when we are recording and you will most likely be on the show).

Jason Scott, of Textfiles.com fame, has announced that he is currently archiving all of the podcasts that he can find, currently storing them in 75 …