Podcasting? Yawn
on 10.07.04, 04:17am in weblog • comments (3)
[.NET Guy] Basically, it’s audio-blogging, except that it’s done on a regular basis, in some cases sounds quite professional, and can be combined with software to automatically download the Podcasts and shove them into your jukebox.
[Scoble] First, my boss, Lenn Pryor, hooked up with Phillip Torrone over on Engadget weblog and are doing their own podcast. Today they posted “How to get Podcasts and also make your own.” Second, Howard Greenstein posted “How to ‘receive’ Podcasts if you don’t use an iPod.”
Don’t get me wrong. I love my iPod. I been an active weblog reader and poster for awhile now, a web surfer for even longer, and used USENET for as long as I can remember.
Blogs are great, because it’s a simple formula that works for me: I choose the content I’m interested in, it comes to me when I want it and I can easily scan through what’s new and/or interesting. I read a few posts, make some comments and perhaps post some links, then move on with my day. It’s simple, and saves me the hassle of loading up lots of web pages every morning, but is also efficient in getting me lots of information.
Listening to webloggers talk all day? No thanks, I’ll pass.
Jeff Sink (October 7, 2004 @ 8:59 pm)
And in addition everything else that might be bad about Podcast, 100% of the PodCasts mentioned here are *about* PodCasting. They are droning on about droning on.
This is the worst idea ever. Well, the only way this could be less appealing is if they use software to modulate the voice in the PodCast to sound like Elmer Fudd was talking the whole time.
Blogging is too easily done as is (present copany excepted). Podcast (and audio-blogging) just make it that much easily for people to babble on about *anything* they want to without giving it even a moment’s thought. And without the ability of the reader (listener) to quickly skim and move on.
Michael Lehman (October 7, 2004 @ 11:24 pm)
As a newly minted podcaster I agree wholeheartedly that listening to someone, myself included, ONLY wax euphoric about podcasting is a sure-fire way to a quick dead end.
That’s why I specifically decided, and I’m sure others are not far behind, that I had to (a) keep it short, (b) make it sound good and (c) provide some sort of value in the content so that it’s worth the listener’s valuable time.
In my case I decided to try to distill some wisdom from my software experience and provide it in an entertaining manner.
So, yes, content without value is even less valuable when you serialize it through sounds. But properly used, the audio medium can add value as long as the information to noise ratio warrants listening in the first place.
Randy (October 8, 2004 @ 3:50 am)
I’ll be honest and to the point: my iPod is for music.
Although, now I’m tempted to make up a special edition PodCast in which I’ll talk about nothing but Blogging about PodCasting, just for Jeff