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December 2nd, 2006, 11:28 PM
Ken Carmen of the Hauppauge-based rock band The Mondays didn't know much about podcasting when he was first approached by Bruce Chambers, founder of the Long Island Podcast Network, and asked to submit the band's music for a podcast premiere.
But it didn't take him long to find out.
"I started to learn that it works with the Internet, and it's like a radio station you download," Carmen, the group's lead singer, recalls. "We started seeing people from Austin, Texas, and other places buying our CD online, and I'd wonder, 'How in the world did you find us?'"
Chambers, though, was hardly surprised. Nearly a year after the 40-year-old contract Web developer founded the network (lipodcastnetwork.com), Chambers says his pet project has not only exceeded his expectations, but also those of the bands that have appeared on the network's flagship show, "The Fresh Music Series."
Like The Mondays, a group called The X's, whose members live in Hicksville and New York City, say their early appearances on the "Fresh Music" podcasts resulted in traffic bumps on the rock band's Web site.
"At concerts, too, right after we finished playing, a few people would come over," drummer Michael Maenza says. "And they would say, 'Look, I never knew anything about you guys, but my girlfriend and I shared your podcast and we love the music.'"
Though in its infancy, podcasting is a 3-year-old media innovation still attracting new listeners - and podcasters - by the week. A term originally coined as a hybrid between the old world of "broadcasting" and the new world of personal media devices, such as iPods, podcasting refers to the downloading of audio files from the Internet to a personal computer or an MP3player. These files, in many instances, will automatically update when a new episode becomes available.
http://www.newsday.com/features/printedition/ny-etpod4994184nov30,0,6848184.story
http://www.newsday.com/features/printedition/ny-etpodside1130,0,7089711.story
But it didn't take him long to find out.
"I started to learn that it works with the Internet, and it's like a radio station you download," Carmen, the group's lead singer, recalls. "We started seeing people from Austin, Texas, and other places buying our CD online, and I'd wonder, 'How in the world did you find us?'"
Chambers, though, was hardly surprised. Nearly a year after the 40-year-old contract Web developer founded the network (lipodcastnetwork.com), Chambers says his pet project has not only exceeded his expectations, but also those of the bands that have appeared on the network's flagship show, "The Fresh Music Series."
Like The Mondays, a group called The X's, whose members live in Hicksville and New York City, say their early appearances on the "Fresh Music" podcasts resulted in traffic bumps on the rock band's Web site.
"At concerts, too, right after we finished playing, a few people would come over," drummer Michael Maenza says. "And they would say, 'Look, I never knew anything about you guys, but my girlfriend and I shared your podcast and we love the music.'"
Though in its infancy, podcasting is a 3-year-old media innovation still attracting new listeners - and podcasters - by the week. A term originally coined as a hybrid between the old world of "broadcasting" and the new world of personal media devices, such as iPods, podcasting refers to the downloading of audio files from the Internet to a personal computer or an MP3player. These files, in many instances, will automatically update when a new episode becomes available.
http://www.newsday.com/features/printedition/ny-etpod4994184nov30,0,6848184.story
http://www.newsday.com/features/printedition/ny-etpodside1130,0,7089711.story