A rádio e a web2.0

«(...) One of the buzz words of recent years in the media industry has been disintermediation, referring to the Internet's ability to connect consumers directly to producers, eliminating “the middleman.” While this movement has been largely embraced in some spaces, it has been more successful in connecting individuals to one another and to small businesses (witness eBay and other similar sites). This trend is expanded in Web 2.0 with a host of social networking and user-generated content sites, greatly empowering individual expression, and allowing birds-of-a-feather to meet and interact in a rich yet inexpensive virtual way.  (...) Web 2.0 builds on this, with recommendation engines and other discovery/sharing processes building appeal. This is where a high-quality, “radio-like” service fits in. It's therefore no surprise that several popular music download sites include “radio” services among their offerings. Retail 101 tells us that there's no better way to stimulate sales than by free samples of good stuff. This has always been one of radio's key values to both consumers and record companies, but the connection has always been indirect, and airtime has always been scarce. Web 2.0 will change this, with “radio” services proliferating almost infinitely, while providing a showcase for a wide range of samples from an online vendor's inventory. (...) Finally, music services aside, the strong social networking culture of Web 2.0 may also warrant the development of streaming audio services that address specific subject matter or interest groups — much like trade magazines do in the print world. Again, aggregation of audience builds the commerce of the site, and popular radio-like services could be a key component of this. So while the implementation and business models may change, it seems there will always be a place for well-presented audio services. We call them radio today, and probably always will, but the term may someday become simply a recognition of its roots. Web 2.0 will likely widen the opportunities for new, targeted, radio-like services, and who better to provide them than experienced broadcasters? Keep your eye on this ball as it bounces into a new court.»

fonte: «Where Will Radio Go in Web 2.0?», Radio World, Skipp Pizzi, 17/01/07