I do not, do not, do not, do not understand the appeal of Podcasting. Why one would want to do it, and why one would want to listen. Are geeks really this needy for whatever weird little fame and self importance they can get? Some bloggers are boring enough to read, Checked in at Hotel, walked on the beach, lovely day
. I don't need to hear them saying this.
Especially if Podcasting gets to be like weblogging. I could not (and still can not) stand the whole blogging-versus-traditional-media meme. "Bla bla bla's not paying enough attention to blogs" "bla bla bla didn't credit me for being the genius that I am and coming up with putting words on the internet" "bla bla bla wouldn't have happened if all big media were like a blog" "bloggers do it with their keys on." Now are we going to have all of these people talking about it too?
Now that video phones are taking off, and bandwidth and compression both continue to improve, how much longer do we have until every self important geek is making "vidcasts" about how much better they are than traditional media?
The cults of fame and personality are inverting.