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Tune into the Cloud – The Blogcast – Thank you for the Music
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Welcome to the trailer of the Tune into the Cloud Blogcast.
A weekly rendition of one of the Tune in the Cloud blog posts, in a podcast.
Podcasting is hot. Red hot. Some expect podcasting to shake up the media industry as fundamentally as cloud computing shook up the IT industry. So a podcast version of Tune into the Cloud, a music inspired cloud blog, seemed a no brainer. Were it not for the fact that including specific songs in a podcast is not trivial from a legal and copyright perspective. I would go as far as to say it is still as complex as trying to build a business importing Karaoke machines and bundling these with popular local music on VHS tapes in the nineties (trust me , I tried).
But as always, complexity and difficulty for one can spell opportunity for another. And in this case Spotify stepped up to the plate by offering the possibility to use songs from their vast catalog in any podcast. Now, personally I am generally not a big fan of exclusive arrangements, but am rather a big fan of free (as you will have heard by now, I am Dutch). So I signed up with a free account to create this first Blogcast.
A blogcast is a little bit less informal than a classic podcast. It wont feel like sitting with (distant) friends around the kitchen table and listening to them chitchat away about variety of related topics. Think more of listening to a short Sunday column, read out to you as a conversation starter over the breakfast table. Over time the Tune into the Cloud Blogcast may very well turn into more free form chatter with guests and regular agenda items, and thus follow in the footsteps of some of the early pioneers of the cloud computing podcast genre such as the one and only original “The cloud computing podcast” and the still running “The CloudCast”.
But first we will turn to the current library of cloud topics and tunes, and render them as integrated audio experiences. With integrated basically meaning that each podcast will end with a song. Today’s warm up clip “Thank you for the music”
LINKS:
Notable Cloud Podcasts:
Honourable mention: Cloud Computing Weekly Podcast (up to 2017) By David S. LinthicumGartner.com/en/podcasts/thinkcast
Used Podcast Platform :
Anchor.FM (production)
Anchor.FM (distribution)
Audacity (recording)
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