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Full article: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,124738,00.asp

A Hope for the Unknown

One of those Podzinger options was "The Trance Lab With Lord Bass," a pretty rocking electronic music podcast. (Warning: Download times are long; the whole 2-hour broadcast is one download.)

I contacted Lord Bass, aka 31-year-old Chris DeVries. He records his Monday-night radio show on WUNH 91.3 in Durham, New Hampshire and makes it available as a podcast. He's been doing the show for 10 years and started podcasting in 2005. Traffic to his Web site rose quickly: "Twice in one month last summer I had to upgrade my hosting plan because I kept running out of bandwidth," he says.

He's subscribed to various podcast directories and has seen his listeners expand geographically as far as England, Australia, and Dubai. Right now, this is a pretty typical grassroots success story for podcasting, but for podcasting to live up to its hype, something deeper has to happen.

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