Not to demean Adam at all, but he has nearly completely fallen off my radar. I give him full credit in all the talks I givem but his focus has seems to have been exclusively on his own business with little input into podcasting as a whole.

I, too, heard about the TiVo announcement and such, but this is simple what I would expect him to do in building his own business. Beyond that, I haven’t really seen a big impact from him or PodShow on the overall podcasting/new media environment.

In fact, the annoying, traditional media, PodShow intros and promos have chased me away from several of the PodShow shows. I said it back in 2004 when I got started and still believe it today, “let’s take the best aspects of radio and television and bring them into podcasting and leave the rest behind.” I think Adam or his staff might be having a little trouble with this.

Douglas

The one thing we’re sure Adam knows how to do is spend money.

I look at that site and I don’t see $23 million…

Banned from Tivo
I was very disappointed to find out the show I co-created and co-produce for the Podshow Network was being passed over by Tivo. “Port City PD” was originally pitched with all of the rest of the shows now currently showing up on Podshow’s Tivo page, but Tivo is only accepting content, get this podcasters…that are rated “G” or “PG” only due to the FCC.

First let me say that our show pushes the limits, but we do nothing you wouldn’t see on Network television. Shows like “The Sheild” and “CSI” are more violent and gruesome than our show. We are guilty of dropping the “F-Bomb” from time to time, but that’s all. Remember in 1993 when “NYPD Blue” showed bare breasts in the pilot episode, and Dennis Franz’s butt in the shower. We don’t even come close, unless you count the rated “G” Christian Coalition, I mean Cali Lewis, describing our show on “Geek Brief” in her mind as “Kinda reminds me of a porno”. I guess she has never watched shows like “The Sheild”, “NYPD Blue”, “CSI”, “24″, because they all remind me or porno…….what a joke.

The cast and crew have worked so hard for almost two years to bring the first full production series that in my mind crushes the likes of “Lonelygirl15″ to the internet. Our show is not just sitting in front of a camera like a news anchor and reading from other people’s bloggs. Now that we are in season two filming in “HD” we are being passed over for now. By the way, “Port City PD” Season 2 looks great on a HD Tv or any Tv for that matter. Tivo’s loss for now.

So be excited for Podshow and the Tivo venture, but expect documentaries and news type shows for your entertainment. So to all podcasters out there make sure you censor yourselves if you want to be on Tivo.

This doesn’t sound like “Independent Media” to me.

Shaun O’Rourke
Co-Creator and Co-Producer
“Port City PD”

www.portcitypd.podshow.com

ADAM CURRY DROPS BOMB… The future of podcasting in peril.
Friday The Thirteenth Offer Accepted - On Anniversary Nuclear Bomb

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Chicago, Il. - On Friday the 13th, Adam Curry played an audio clip on his ‘Daily Source Code’ show from a couple planning to spend 365 days on the road to document the 2008 election. Curry offered to sponsor the tour and loan them his eco-friendly, bio-diesel car “Trinity”.

Thrilled at the ability to go “Green” on their travels, Shane and Amy Bugbee, the tour planners who are hitting the road in November, accepted the challenge Monday, July 16th — Ironically, 62nd anniversary of the “Trinity Test”, the first detonation of a nuclear bomb, the date is considered the birth of the Atomic Age.

The couple launched their website, http://www.ayearatthewheel.com on the 4th Of July to count down the days until their departure on November 4th, 2007. They will travel the country for a full year, and end on Election Day (November 4th, 2008) in Washington DC. While on the road, they will interview celebrities, politicos and activists… speaking to regular folks on the street about the issues, and documenting the results with podcasts and short videos-casts.

Adam Curry, known as the “Podfather”, has been at the forefront of computer technology since he was an MTV VJ in the 1980s and 90s. His current venture, Podshow.com is the quintessential network for podcasting, and Curry hosts a show called ‘Daily Source Code’. Curry has been trying to “Free Trinity”, his 1984 alternatively fueled Mercedes station wagon for some time, but until now his eco-friendly wish had gone unanswered. Then Shane and Amy came calling.

As the two entities work out the details, more will be announced.

MORE ON ADAM CURRY:
http://www.adam.podshow.com

MORE ON A YEAR AT THE WHEEL:
http://www.ayearatthewheel.com