{"id":830,"date":"2008-05-29T06:58:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T11:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=830"},"modified":"2008-06-01T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T12:00:18","slug":"trends-started-by-new-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/29\/trends-started-by-new-media","title":{"rendered":"Trends, started by (new) media?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since re-entering the world of the iPod&#8217;s by getting my <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bytebot\/statuses\/807455919\">iPod Touch<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been listening to podcasts again. One of the ones I listen to regularly, is Adam Curry&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailysourcecode.com\/\">Daily Source Code<\/a> (the DSC).<\/p>\n<p>Of late, it seems like he&#8217;s been talking a lot about something he calls the &#8220;Prostate Cancer Prevention Quota&#8221;. He&#8217;s quoting old (from 2003) research, that says regular <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/3072021.stm\">masturbation cuts the risk<\/a> of prostate cancer. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn3942-masturbating-may-protect-against-prostate-cancer.html\">study<\/a>, conducted in Melbourne, Australia, has not seen anything new in the last five years. But thats digressing.<\/p>\n<p>Question I have is: <strong>do podcasts start <em>trends<\/em>, just like regular commercial radio?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Commercial radio is subject to a code of conduct. There are topics that may be taboo. These obviously vary from region-to-region. Podcasters don&#8217;t have to follow through, naturally.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m impressed with the number of folk calling in, leaving voice messages for Adam, to tell him where they stand on their weekly quota. This almost reminds me of the previous &#8220;trend&#8221;, which helps &#8220;condition&#8221; you to think of Senseo, every time he burped.<\/p>\n<p>With Senseo, it was great advertising. With the cancer prevention quota, I have no idea what the benefit is, besides maybe actually wanting to improve men&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p>Did Adam start a masturbating trend? Watching an episode of House the other night, House ordered a prostitute to his apartment. Did this increase the number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=outcall\">outcall<\/a>&#8216;s that night, amongst television watchers?<\/p>\n<p>It would be interesting to find out&#8230; statistics that seem interesting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Trends%2C%20started%20by%20%28new%29%20media%3F&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F05%2F29%2Ftrends-started-by-new-media&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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One of the ones I listen to regularly, is Adam Curry&#8217;s Daily Source Code (the DSC). Of late, it seems like he&#8217;s been talking a lot about something he calls the &#8220;Prostate Cancer Prevention Quota&#8221;. 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