Dave Winer laid down some awesome (and very entertaining) wise words about podcasting and various commerical issues and considerations that while they have been worked out in some ways in the several years since written, still hold true and comment-worthy in 2012:   Dave’s

It all came about in the 1980s, before the onset of the World Wide Web, when the Radio Computing Services or RCS, supplied the radio stations with talk-related and music software that were digital. Multicast Network was utilised to spread video and audio files. This was prior to the o