Just a week after crossing the 1,000-member threshold, SpokenWord.org has set a new record, at least for itself. As of an hour ago we’ve got 100,000 spoken-word audio and video programs in our database.
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I have an issue with content on SpokenWord.org
There must be over 100,000 programs by now, and to me they are like a penny jar. Simply too many pennies not to be intimating.
I am an avid podcast listener and have subscribed to many feeds via iTunes. I came to SpokenWord to look around and find new content and all I see are pennies – thousands of pennies.
I tried to search for some of my favorite shows but came-up empty. My search of CBC Spark resulted in zero hits, even though I see some individual episodes floating around when I wallow through the programs.
There has to be a better way to meta-tag all these pennies so they make sense. The broad stroke of categorization does not hold-up, especially with the number of new pennies being added each week.
When I hear a program mentioned – like Spark for instance – no one says, “Hey listen to Episode 56.” No they say, “Hey listen to this week’s Spark.” How do I hunt that down?
The UI is not intuitive in that way.
I miss the old Yahoo directory. It was a great tree to drill down to find the result I was after. Something akin to that would be great. Country – Source – Topic – Show – Episode Canada – CBC – Technology – Spark – episodes.
I defy you to find this week’s CBC’s Search Engine podcast in under 2 minutes.
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