Intro clip by Scotty J

This week on All Axis Radio, Ajay shares the mic with former Secaucast host and current podcast whore, ScottyJ.
There’s really no direction for this one, so it’d be easier to make a list of topics, drops, mentions, and songs. The explicit warning is on for this one, Kids. Listener discretion IS advised.

Topics:

• Drinking & Smoking
• Video Games
• Scotty’s “Tubin’”
• American Pie
• Unsexy Bostonians
• Unhomophobic
• Drinking in Vegas
• Star Trek Convention
• Con-sluts
• 2007 Portable & New Media Expo
• Gay marriage
• KKKanada versus AmeriKKKa
• Tainted American penis
• Giving nature back to the white man
• Secaucast
• Podplays
• ScottyJ likes the non-whites
• Kahlua and Baileys
• Internet Dating
• How To Be A Predator
• ‘Net Porn (or, Ajay shows his age)
• MTV and Madonna’s dirty self
• 2009 U.S. election
• Poli-tricks
• Floridinians and their withering bones

Songs Played:
Farewell Redemption - Strings
Brad Sucks - Dirtbag
Superbeing - Bright Idea
Tara Leigh Cobble - Damage

Podcasts Mentioned:
Atomic Suburbia
TuckerTales
Love Long & Prosper
Wicked Good Podcast
Life on Tap

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 All Axis Radio #62 [35:39m]: Download

(posted on podCALGARY Oct. 9, 2007)

It’s official, ladies and gentlemen. on October 31, 2007, Yahoo will cease it’s ‘Yahoo Podcasts‘ directory indefinitely. While that may not mean a lot to you - as you’re already subscribed to the two best podcasts in Calgary - it certainly means a lot to the rest of the podcasting world.

After iTunes, Google, Odeo, the Podcast Pickle, Podcast Alley, Digg, CanadaPodcasts.ca, and Pluggd, Yahoo Podcasts was the premier Podcast directory in which average listeners could discover and critique independent podcasts.

What does that mean in the long run? Well, not much, if taken at face value. But, if you consider Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Jaiku, De.licio.us, PodFeed, and the numerous other digital networking tools at our disposal, it means we’re - approximately - seven per cent worse off than we were yesterday.

Seven per cent doesn’t sound like a lot, but take this into consideration. Seven is a prime number. Not only that, but it’s also the number of Atlas‘ daughters, the atomic number of Nitrogen, and the code for international direct dial phone calls to Russia and Kazakhstan.

In all seriousness, Yahoo was one of the few directories that had the potential to cater to a mainstream audience - a ‘flashing 12‘ crowd, as some may say, and it’s disturbing to see the service fold at such crucial time for the medium.

The merger between Sirius and XM Satellite radio is looming; the number of active founding podcasts is diminishing, and a large majority of newer shows are struggling to compete with the rest of the online world. Yahoo Podcasts was one of the few (see: the above list) directories that could have been a household name.

So, what does this mean for the little guy? At this point, it doesn’t mean much. The issue will arise when CBC, CNN, CNBC, and all of the other C-words begin taking notice. The fact remains: Yahoo Podcasts was yet another community-supported, yet corporately-ignored, podcast directory that has fallen by the wayside - laying in the wake for its peers.

- Ajay