Sisyph.us - Erik's personal blogs

Foneshow is featured in an article in BusinessWeek today focusing on competitors to Sirius.

Another option: Foneshow lets any phone with text messaging capabilities to catch custom talk radio programming, like Bill Press and Thom Hartmann. Whenever a new show segment becomes available, your phone receives a short text message with a link. You hit "Send," and your phone starts streaming audio, which you can pause, skip or forward to a friend. Foneshow sells advertising, unlike Sirius.

We're honored to be included with other great companies like Pandora, Stitcher and Slacker.

Foneshow got a pretty big mention in Scott Kirsner's article today on the changing media space and how entrepreneurs are trying to find new ways to create and monetize an audience.

I suppose I should go find a hard copy of the paper.

I'll tell you what's in the Daily News...

Foneshow is in the New York Daily News. Read all about it here.

I talked with David Hinkley a few weeks back about the state of the radio business. Here's a quote:

But in the bigger picture, says Erik Schwartz, radio is moving too slowly and too often in the wrong direction.
Specifically, he says, "Radio has to stop thinking it is in the broadcasting business and realize it's the content business."
That's not a small distinction. He means that despite the fact companies often paid hundreds of millions of dollars for transmitters, those transmitters "are getting less valuable by the day."
Because every day, more of the audience gets radio info some way - the Internet, cell phones, whatever - that doesn't require a broadcast signal.
But, he adds, that's also the good news. "People still want audio content, which means there will always be an audience for a good radio station," he says. "That may mean more talk and sports because those are unique to your station. If you play music, you can't just play songs. An iPod does that. You need personality."

PS: Apologies for the slightly obscure Guys and Dolls reference, I played Nathan Detroit back in high school and never quite got over it.

A blog post about use of technology at the political conventions.

Mike Kinosian at Inside Radio Magazine just did a nice article on Foneshow. Interesting coverage of the product and the company.

Associated Press did a favorable review of Foneshow.

They also did a video.

Dan Frommer at Silicon Alley Insider wrote a nice piece about us.

The Portland Press Herald did a nice feature on Foneshow today (pictures and everything). Here's a link to the online version.

Mass High Tech Journal did a little write up on Foneshow.

Here's a link.

There's an article in the New York Sun.

Oh, by the way, Foneshow is a (small) sponsor of Podcamp NYC.

(HT to Chris Brogan)

We were a demo lunch company at the Brave New Web conference yesterday in Boston and we're starting to get some nice press notices from it.

Rafe Needleman at CNET wrote a very favorable article about Foneshow on their Webware site.

His one criticism is right on, we do need to spend some time working on the web site design and usability. We've been totally focused on optimizing the mobile phone experience.

This time from Podtech.net.

John Ince interviewed me at Podcamp San Francisco about a month ago. I had totally forgotten I did this interview until we were adding Podtech content feeds to Foneshow and my name popped up.

John Havens, the about.com guide to podcasting gave us a great write up. He and Nic also did an audio interview in the Borders near Penn Station.

Thanks John!