Oprah gets seriously techie

Don’t look now but Oprah is at the top of the iTunes podcasting chart. Her discussion series with writer Eckhart Tolle is bringing not just podcasting to her huge audience, she’s doing a ten week “class” by live video with a Silverlight player and Skype discussions. It’s events like this that change the technology landscape.

This could be at least as big as when iTunes started hosting podcasts. It blew the doors off podcasting and millions of new people started downloading them. Oprah using Skype and podcasting will similarly attract many new people. Good!