BlogTalkRadio : Platform to host a live blogshow online
While radio has been preoccupied with satellite radio, which requires expensive equipment, pod casting, which is not live, and Internet radio, which requires downloading, services such as BlogTalkRadio pose almost no barrier to participation. Literally, anyone with something to say now has a platform, including the 50 million bloggers, who can speak live to engage their niche communities. Social radio is inherently viral, social and participatory. It may be radio for the MySpace generation. The blog has changed the face of media and communication. But unfortunately, it has its limits. Primarily, the blog does not allow for real-time interaction between the blogger and his or her readers.
BlogTalkRadio extends the blog to allow such live interaction, as well as allow users to generate and consume content in audio format as well as in written format.