Podcasting with Steem
I was jogging yesterday and I had an idea that would expand the Steem blockchain into a new area. I love listening to podcasts when I run or commute to work, or pretty much any time I have to keep my brain occupied. Now that I'm starting to get the Steem method of rewarding for content I'd like to see how we can expand the blockchain into different realms and increase demand.
Enter podcasts. The most common way it seems to consume podcasts is through your mobile device of choice. Subscribe to your podcast of choice, wait for each new episode to magically appear, then watch on your own timetable. If you want to support a given podcaster you have to go to a separate page or a Patreon page and support them with some type of recurring or one-time fiat payment. This procedure seems to work for many, but what if we could use the Steem blockchain to improve this process?
There is a solution with current tech. Podcast creators could post to Steemit (or Busy.org) in conjunction with their normal website announcement. Listeners who are on Steemit could then follow a podcaster and then upvote the post connected to the episode they liked. While this solution is possible, I don't feel it's ideal for podcasters since there is a definite disconnect between the listening of the podcast and the reward systems.
So how can we make this better? I confess I don't know much about how podcasts are posted, but we'd need to insert into this process a way to generate a post and attach that post URL to the podcast feed itself. Then we modify an existing podcasting app to allow a user to add a user id and their posting key. Then from within the app, as the user listens to the podcast, they can upvote the specific post attached to the episode. There could even be additional options like selecting a voting percentage, or automatically upvoting if a given percentage of the episode has played. This method shortens the chain between listening and supporting and it can be used on top of existing funding mechanisms.
I don't have the time to implement this myself so please feel free to steal my idea. My google-fu has failed to find out if somebody has already implemented this solution, but if you know of something please let me know in the comments. This could be a fun vehicle to boost Steem.
dsound is already used for some podcasts, although it's no place specifically for podcasts.
https://dsound.audio/#/podcast/trending
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