The Gillmore gang at Gnomdex, Steve Gillmor, Daug Kaye, Dave Winer, Adam Curry, Dan Gillmor, Dean Hachamovitch and Robert Scoble on the Mic

They discussed the history of podcasting and some of the discussions adam had with Apple, in that Adam encouraged Apple to build a directory from his exsisting directory, dave has asked Microsoft if they are going to get onboard with OPML and build their own directory, Dean did not really answer the question. Steve attempted to nail down Dean on whether all of the RSS data that they are intergrating into Longhorn will be able to be touched by other developers and the answer was a maybe. The point Steve was trying to drive home was a prelude to the next topic on Attention XML and how Microsoft is going to play in this space.

Adam was asked how apple is going to play in the podcasting realm and thinks that Apple will make deals with big media but he thinks people will react the same way to big media today that if the content is boring now it will be when it is put on podcast. But he thinks that once the masses realize they can create content we will see a significant shift in media consumption.

Dave extended the comments in that the podcasting can move to video and other media types and once the media realizes they have to compete with those of us already in the space they are not going to be happy about.

Discussion turned to metadata in the audio content with the limitation of the ID3 tags and the encouragement for people to really look at Media RSS like Yahoo has adopted. If you are not familiar with Media RSS I suggest you go to Lucas Gonze website at gonze.com/weblog/