Podcasting
I’ve been meaning to put out a nice, meaningful post about podcasting for quite a while now. It seems to be all the rage and whatnot. And now that iTunes 4.9, which adds support for podcasts, has come out, there has never been a better time to have my say. The one thing you really need to ask yourself though is
Do you like talk radio?
Yeah….umm…..podcasting. Podcast is really a stupid name for it all. It makes it sound like you need an iPod to do it. Not only do you not need an iPod, but you don’t even need an mp3 player of any sort. If you find yourself wondering exactly what a podcast is, then know this. It’s an mp3. That’s it. Specifically, it’s an mp3 of people talking about something. When someone podcasts, they will do various “shows” that will each be their own mp3 file. You get the shows via an RSS feed. That’s all there is too it. There are programs you can download that will automatically download the mp3’s from the feeds and even copy them straight to your iPod or whatever you like. But then, like I said, iTunes does this now as well.
Did you hear the part where I mentioned it was people talking?
A podcast is talk radio. Geeky talk radio that you download online, but talk radio none-the-less. I’m not a big fan of talk radio myself. It’s OK sometimes, but most of the time I’d rather be listening to music. When it comes to news and such, I’d generally rather read about it. I know that writing can’t contain everything you get out of talk radio, but it’s still generally boring to me.
Since I’d rate talk radio as boring, I can’t say much better for podcasts. Obviously a lot of people think otherwise, but to me, podcasting is just a bunch of hype.
You heard it here first:
Podcasts suck.
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