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Ricardo responds with some thoughts on podcasting.
I tried to respond in the comments, but was being rejected for questionable content – damn too smart filter !
So, here's what I was going to say:
You know - i tried with podcasts ! but anything boring quickly became just background noise, and anything interesting meant that I had to stop doing much else, and for the most part I had to stop for much longer than if I just read the transcript or a summary. Rarely did I get much extra information...although I did enjoy the Cory Doctorow vs Robert Scoble one ! It could be me, maybe I just don't multitask as well as I used to. I'm also not much of a radio listener, and I don't know if there's a correlation between people who habitually listen to radio [non-music radio especially], and people who dig podcasting. Increasing the production value may help, but I think that would also make it harder to create a podcast - it's one thing taping oneself and then encoding and releasing it - quite another to get jingles, a script, etc put together. Also, if I'm going to be forced to engage, then you might as well give me video content as well - plenty of extra information there. Harder to watch while driving though !
All this "questionable comment" stuff on my antispam is starting to be really annoying. I'll definitely have to fix it ASAP (by the way, it's just Jerry Allen MT-Blacklist...)
Anyway... yes I can see your point, of course. And that's exactly what I wrote: but more than focusing on the quality of the podcast, I'd spend more time on its structure and language, more like a radio broadcast I mean.
Then again, if you're not the radio listener type, chances are you wouldn't enjoy this kind of podcast either :)
In the end, not everybody has to like it and, to say the truth, I don't actually listen to many podcasts either... was just trying to look for a way to improve this baby new media :)
Hehe - you must have a large set of expressions to match against !
re podcasting: yeah i agree that not everyone has to like it. But I think that podcasting as it is now..ie talk/conversation based, will forever remain a niche, and a small one at that.
Why ? Well, look at traditional radio - 90% music, 8% phone-in, 2% news/current affairs/etc (these figures are purely a guess). But the market for information based radio is small.
Of course, small != worthless...but the idea that the general public [as opposed to early techie adopters] will greedily consume vast quantity of podcasting material is, I think, a pipe dream.