Posts Tagged ‘ ron Bloom ’

Pods and Blogs Nabs Podfather Interview

May 20th, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, General, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcast Distribution, Video, Video Podcasts

Our friend, radio producer Chris Vallance, sent word that he had recently interviewed PodShow - er, Mevio - executive Adam Curry for his BBC Radio Five Live Pods and Blogs program.
Our regular readers will remember that Mevio co-founder and Chief Executive Ron Bloom raised eyebrows last month by explaining that the reason for the [...]



Todd Cochrane: Raw Opinions On The State Of Podcasting

May 8th, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, General, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting Networks, Video Podcasts

Todd Cochrane is the CEO of Raw Voice, a longtime podcaster at Geek News Central and helps connect podcasters with advertisers via his Blubrry podcast network.
He’s also known for having strong opinions, on topics ranging from the PodShow/Mevio name change to the quality of podcasters’ RSS feeds.
I asked Todd about his perspective on user-generated content [...]



Mevio Dumps PodShow Name & Distances Itself From User-Generated Content

Apr 24th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcast Directory Sites, Podcast Distribution, Podcasting Networks

PodShow has officially announced that it has changed its name to Mevio. Along with this announcement, the company announced updates to its site.
The name change has been greeted with skepticism by many podcasters, and there’s already a “Mevio” entry in the Urban Dictionary.:
The act of renaming a company / business, thinking that the new name [...]



PodShow Is Dead; Now “Mevio”

Apr 23rd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, New Media Organizations, Podcast Distribution, Podcasting Networks, Video, Video Podcasts

PodShow, the heavily-hyped podcasting startup from podfather Adam Curry, is dead; it’s changing its name to Mevio.
NewTeeVee attributes the name change to a so-called “curse of the ‘Pod”” - the idea that any company with “pod” in the name is cursed. They note that PodZinger has changed its name to EveryZing & PodBridge has changed [...]