Podcastalley.com
vs. Podcast.com
In this new world of information, where podcasts
are establishing themselves as one of the preferred methods of sharing it; two
websites are standing on a league of their own when it comes to podcasts
sharing and distribution – or is it so?
Although I have seen and heard advertisement for
Podcast.com before I was unable to enter the website. As seen on the picture
below, both of my Internet browsers and firewalls blocked from even entering
the website due to a malware threat. I must admit that this rarely happens when
I surf the net and to see this message in a website such as this makes me
question the legitimacy of it. Needless, to say I was very disappointed with
Podcast.com.
On the other hand, although my experience with
Podcastalley.com was better than Podcast.com (not hard to do when you can’t
access a website) it was not one that I could say was pleasant. Finding
podcasts of my interest turned to be not an easy task, unless your interests
were the same as the featured podcasts (those were very easy to utilize). This
makes me believe that the website is created to force users to listen to what
they want you to listen, which makes me doubt if they are in it solely for the
business aspect of it, or do they really care about sharing information to
those who cannot access it any other way.
Nevertheless, at the end of the day I believe sites
that host and present podcast files for users to utilize such as Podcast.com
and Podcastalley.com are fighting an uphill battle. The reason why I say this
is because today every big name (artist, journalist and/or company) hosts their
product through iTunes where users find great podcasts with a very user
friendly search function; but between Podcast.com and Podcastalley.com I must say that Podcastalley.com would be my choice.
Sites used:
www.podcast.com
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