Docent Casting

Apple has been leading the charge in enabling users to cross the boundary from content consumers to creators. First desktop publishing allowed people to create boring family newsletters. Then along came the web which allowed people to create boring websites about their families.

The newest craze on the scene is podcasting, in which people create boring audio programs about, well, anything. It seems that the newest twist in pod casting is something I call 'Docent Casting,' because I am just very clever.

People are recording their very own audio tours of various museums and releasing them free of charge on the web. Others then download the Docent Cast and walk around a museum listening to someone tell them various things about what they are looking at. Take that, museums with your large fees for audio tours!

[Found via Tim Lauer]