Syndicate - Beyond Words: Media RSS and Podcasting panel notes

Update: Nathan Weinberg recaps the panel.

One interesting tidbit sticks out from the Beyond Words panel I moderated a little while ago. Since we had David Payne (GM of CNN.com) on the panel and we were talking about new ways of distributing multimedia content (principally podcasts), I decided to ask him what he thought about BitTorrent. Before I did that, I asked the audience to raise their hands if they had seen the infamous Jon Stewart episode of Crossfire. Then I asked how many people saw it on their computers via BitTorrent or other non-TV means of distribution -- pretty much everyone in the room. Not really a surprise, but worth noting.