Ode To The Gillmor Gang

Alright, maybe not an Ode. But i’ll take an Odeo. They still in business? Their site is down.

There was once a time… when a group of technologists digitally congregated to discuss current happenings in the industry, they would distribute the content as audio (mp3 etc) and even called it a podcast for a while.
Was that system so broken that today, as an example, the Gillmor Gang has to be distributed as video only on Youtube? First, it is largely useless for the consuming geek not to mention a waste of bandwidth. Bandwidth efficiency funny to you? Sure, it’s easy to waste water so wasting bandwidth is no surprise. Maybe once the axing of “unlimited bandwidth plans” are more a reality… we can chit chat on that one some more.

I enjoy the Gillmor Gang. But it’s not easy to be part of the audience. So when I did finally get around to catching some discourse hosted by the omnipresent (but unpredictable) geek god, I had to laugh when the visual on my screen is this:

Maybe this is intentional… but it amazes me that the Gillmor Gang has no single consistent destination and is scattered all over the web with no cohesion. The only constant is of course, Steve Gillmor. I suspect this is deliberate as a way to keep it organic and like smoke… dispersible. disposable. the Gillmor Gang gathers at will. Their should be an ad-hoc little web service that tracks when a new show is published and alert subscribers AND provide an audio extract of the damn youtube video.

That is all.

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