Now this is really clever.
Via, Micro Persuasion
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Archive for the 'On-Demand' Category
Changing patterns of media consumption
Published by July 18th, 2006 in On-Demand and About ChinesePod. 14 CommentsSteve Rubel over at Micropersuasion makes an interesting point about how we consume media these days:
On Sunday YouTube said it hit 100 million video streams per day.
Last week the four TV networks suffered their lowest weekly ratings ever.
Coincidence? I doubt it.
The mere fact that you are here ‘consuming’ ChinesePod means that you too […]
Pope Benedict XVI Gets an iPod
Vatican Radio employees gave Pope Benedict XVI a new iPod nano loaded with special Vatican Radio programming and classical music to honor his first visit to broadcasting headquarters.
Vatican Radio offers podcasts in eight languages, so the pope can now plug in and import the broadcasting service’s audio files.
Pope Benedict visited […]
This afternoon I met with a ChinesePod learner who offered some interesting feedback. She has been studying Mandarin for a couple of years but tends to get stuck all the time. The problem is the textbook. She has been stuck on her last lesson for several months without progressing.
Books can be like that, particularly […]
I’ve written some articles/posts over at the On Demand Training blog about how podcasting will change the nature of the language training business. What we’re doing here is pretty revolutionary, because it creates a wholly new supply chain/value chain and a new way to consume training. It’s a kind of web 2.0 solution whose time […]
The End of Language Tapes & CD’s
Published by October 14th, 2005 in On-Demand and Learning Chinese. 8 CommentsNot sure why it didn’t occur to us earlier the effect of what we are doing, but it took the bright insight of one of our users, Gabriel, to wake us up to what we are helping to achieve: destroy the language audio book market.
I have not taken a Chinese language class, but i have […]
“Similar to the ‘remix generation’ shift in media where new technologies (e.g. Tivo, RSS, podcasting, etc.) have increasingly put more power in the hands of media consumers, the same technologies will shift training from a traditional classroom-centric model to a more flexible, learner-centric, continuous learning model. ChinesePod is designed to support this […]
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