When I first heard about this idea, I was very excited by it (and still am). Now that I've slept on it, I've thought of some issues that need to be worked through.

Firstly, who is the target audience? If it's the same as most of the podcasts, then it's relatively small. Sure, there are lot a WordPress developers out there, but it's a small audience in the bigger picture, especially if you're trying to work out a business model.

Ah, business model.. Is there one? There probably should be if you want to ensure it will keep going beyond the excitement of the first year or two. Are you planning to keep it totally free? Or will there be advertising? If there's advertising, does some of that revenue flow back to the podcast owners? If so how is that managed in a fair way.

The podcast owners will need to agree to sign up. I'd guess the free podcasts would be agreeable, as it's more exposure. However, podcasts that run ads may have an issue if the station ads (or ads on other podcasts) conflict with their ads.

Also, in terms of using it, I'd probably stream while I'm sitting at my computer, but my main podcast consumption happens on my phone while I'm commuting or exercising. My 3G plan has a limit of 1GB per month, so I typically don't stream while I'm out. So my primary listening will be via a Podcast app that downloads the episodes, rather than a streaming radio station.

What about the rest of the target audience? How do they consume WordPress audio? Is there demand for this? I suspect that there will definitely be some that will stream while they are working, but it would be good to gauge the demand.

Perhaps we should run a survey asking people whether they'd use it, how often and long they'd listen, what they'd listen to (old episodes, audio from WordCamp talks, user generated content, any particular podcasts, etc), whether advertising would be a problem, how they'd listen to it (computer vs phone), etc.

Also, to run it properly will take a lot of effort. I know you want others to jump in and I'm sure some will, but the effort shouldn't be underestimated. All the more reason to have a sustainable business model.

I still think this is an exciting and amazing idea, but it's important to consider some of these issues. My 2 cents anyway!