stop the lights - RTÉ take on web 2.0

RTÉ is to digitise its entire archive and is looking into featuring user-generated content on its website, siliconrepublic.com reports

when RTÉ press released on their podcasting output in Dec 2006 SR asked me for a comment.

Brian Greene, head of the podcasting representative body in Ireland and winner of the Irish Internet Association’s podcaster of the year award, said RTÉ’s adoption of the medium was a positive development. “The entire independent sector is still larger than the RTÉ output, but the fact that they’re doing more podcasting is good,” he said.

Greene pointed out that the broadcaster is sitting on decades’ worth of material that could be of interest to listeners if it was made available via podcast. “Let’s see some older archives, original music and more diverse programming,” he suggested.

todays full story from Silicon Republic and BHG's Dec20 post