Podcasting and the New Media

By Glenn Harlan Reynolds
In the past, I've written here about MP3.com, and its sort-of successor, GarageBand.com, in terms of their influence on the future of music. But, increasingly, we're seeing that there's more than music to the equation.

I talked recently with GarageBand's CEO, Ali Partovi, about where all this is going. Partovi is an open-faced entrepreneur whose previous venture, LinkExchange, Inc., wound up being bought by Microsoft for $265 million. (It's still around as bCentral). Partovi spoke rapidly enough that I had to ask him to slow down, but it seemed like the excitement of an enthusiast, not the fast talk of a salesman. And there's a lot to be excited about.