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Look, podcasting is a pain in the ass! They are harder to make than blogs and they are far more inefficient to listen to than to read a blog. In fact, I don't even listen to anyone else's podcasts. I only use
my podcasts to publish my amateur acoustic guitar songs that I like to torture my friends with.
But before the technology is even allowed to expand into the hobby arena, it is being cajoled and fondled by the high-heeled scarlettry known collectively as the "Tech Industry."
They are going to try to stab to death one more venue of communications in the same way they have been since the invention of the radio, with big-budget, mass-audience, homogeneity that simply does not work in terms of marketing to the 2005 American Citizen.
Podcasts are a distraction. Blogs are the truth and light right now and will be until we can download public thoughts from other people's brains in holographic dimensions at the speed of light (this and many other wonders await us in the new world).
Why don't these marketing dinosaur whores go back to television and fight it out amongst themselves while bloggers build individual empires of information dissemination that are completely under the control of one person or one corporation (which can be as little as two people).
To engage the future, we must stop looking at the past as life raft and more as a reference point for strategic planning.
Word 'em up.
Mars, Bitches! Keep your eyes on the skies.
