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After three hours of fiddling and lots of coffee, I finally have bbpress installed and in working order. I want to be able to implement the stylesheet so it will blend in with this site, but that’s for another day. The overall package of bbpress is amazing, it’s so simple but so very addictive, just like wordpress. Again it is open source so you can have a go at installing it and changing it as you see fit.

I can safely say that this is the first bbpress forum dedicated to Podcasting. It’s nice to have it up and running and to know that it will hopefully be a great resource for Irish people especially, to come and post and interact with other podcast enthusiasts. So why not pop over and help the Irish Podforum grow.

As a child growing up my father would always say to me “You get nothing in life for free”, to which I would also answer what about the free lollipops with the Dandy or the free TV guides in the newspapers, “but you have to buy something to get something back” he would reply. While shopping in Dublin many years back I came across a catalogue in Argos and shouted “Dad, this is free!”. Free it may be, but what’s it for? What can you do with it except pick an item out and pay for it”. So up until 18 months ago I couldn’t think of anything that was “free” until I came across Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig. I learned in a lecture that you could actually rip off the cover and put your name on it, imagine how cool that would be? You could be an author and show your Grandmother how amazing you were. The following lectures led us to the Creative Commons which is a place where you can value your work and decide how it should be used. This means that in some cases you can use other peoples work for absolutely free.

Liam, thanks for the kind note. I’m about to launch into the podcasting space myself, so I’m happy to help and learn. It is extremely exciting to hear about how you all are spreading Free Culture. Have you seen the Free Culture movement (not related to me) started by students at Swarthmore (http://freeculture.org)? Also, it would be great if you used CC music in your podcast — to again, reinforce the point you make in the beginning of your post.

Now people can choose to either pay for songs from iTunes or get free content on their MP3 players (Podcasts). Podcasting will get many artists noticed in the future (just like Bradsucks.net) who gets played in many Podcasts – even mine once it gets underway. Podcasting is free to listen to, if you don’t like it you can stop listening and subscribe to another. Many people are now looking at ways to make money from podcasting which could mean having to pay to listen to your favourite shows. This was an idea discussed by Dawn and Drew who already have a sponsored advert from msmobiles.com and appears at the end of the show so it doesn’t get it the way. Adverts in Podcasts can work if they are done in a fun way much like what Dawn and Drew do: you get the message but are entertained at the same time.

When people look back on the evolotion of Podcasting Dawn and Drew will feature along the way, one of a kind. A show which will always cheer you up and one you can listen to anywhere. Congradulations on your excellant show. Won’t be long before they celebrate their big 100.

woah, our 50th show! pretty wild. i wasn’t sure how many shows we’d get to before we would hang our hats, but the response is still so overwhelmingling positive, that i’m sure we’ll do at least another 50. if this is your first time listening to our show… please be prepared for 2 people sitting around talking to each other as if you were in our living room. nothing super exciting. some people even say we suck and are a waste of bandwidth. but then some people say they love us and can’t wait to hear another episode. so judge for yourself. if you don’t like the show, we won’t hate you. but for those of you out there that really do enjoy dawn and i rambling about with each other, then i’m sure you’ll enjoy this episode…

Just a little problem that I pondered about today which was about the longevity of Podcasts. Well before podcasts people listened to music on their MP3 player over and over and over, heck I listen to the same song up to 6 six in a row (The last one was Gwen Stefani - ‘What you waiting for’).

The problem is would any podcast ever be so good that you re-listen to it? Take for instance a chat show on the radio (Beat FM record a talk show from 1.50 to 3.50 and is repeated again at 11.50 until 1.50) I must say I have listened to the show on a few occasions during the day time and again at night (when most radio stations are boring and play songs for people working late shifts).

But now that I get great Podcasts arriving straight to me, the on switch to the radio has now gathered dust. DSC takes me from college to home, DNDS takes me into the night, podcasts such as The Sports Pod, Reel Reviews and have recently tried Matthew Bischoff to make my night pass by with entertainment. Most podcasts now feature music (between 2/3 songs) so will this help podcasters to be re-listened to? Let us hope so. Comments on this please.