The Podcast Asylum

The Kickstartnews Revue was a tech podcast aimed at small and home office users. It wasn’t not too geeky, and the banter between Howard Carson and Liane Reiter was entertaining. After listening to a few shows I became a reviewer for the main site, which got me free books and software. To my great disappointment, KSN stopped producing the show in mid-2006:

Some of you may be wondering what happened to the KSN Revue Podcast. After stabilizing at a biweekly download rate of about 11,000 subscribers (Feb through May 2006), subscriber interest began to wane due to heavy competition from literally thousands of other podcasts. We responded by changing our format, tightening the show, introducing harder hitting interviews, producing regular new guest segments and so on. We had a blast and even won a couple of minor awards. But good quality podcasting remains a costly and time consuming sideline with no associated revenue. The last KSN Revue is show #58.