Anchor, freshly infused with VC cash, is rethinking how audio is created and shared. Is the age of participatory podcasts upon us?
For a media format that’s allegedly undergoing a renaissance, spoken audio is pretty stale. Unlike the hypertext of the web, every second of content in a podcast or other piece of online audio is locked firmly inside the waveforms and timestamps of a medium that hasn’t changed all that much since NPR first started posting its shows on what we once called “the Net.”
