Invasion Of The Podcast People by Peter Lewis, published in Time magazine, July 25, 2005 is my next article. Mr. Lewis recalls the days of staying up late and listening to Wolfman Jack who was broadcasting from across the Mexican border. Wolfman Jack was a dangerous and exotic deejay, playing daring music, according to Mr. Lewis. He goes on to say that you can hear anything you want to hear any time you want to hear it; from Japanese punk music to learning how to speak “Kanien’keha”, the language spoken by the Mohawk nation.
Although there are around 7000 podcasters Mr. Lewis expects the number to climb. He even expects the radio stations themselves to engage in podcasting as well as broadcasting. Mr. Lewis predicts that radio will never be the same. He also devotes a few paragraphs on how to receive and transmit podcasts.
Several other respected magazines have articles about podcasting. John P. Quain and Marc Silver wrote in U.S. News and World Report that millions of listeners are enjoying podcasting. And Heather Green wrote in Business Week that there is an iTunes top 100 list of podcasts and the film critics Ebert & Roeper are number two on the list. Ms. Green goes on to say that podcasting is very easy to do and she expects the number of people podcasting and listening to explode. (227)
