Will podcasting ever play in Peoria?
Well, the Tampa Bay area is very much akin, socially and culturally, to Middle America, and while there’s perceptible activity, podcasting is still a minority pursuit around here. So take that as a barometer…

If everyone’s so hell-bent on advancing podcasting — in spite of my objections — then they should at least do it right. “Voice styling” lessons can turn the mumbliest mofo into a vocalizing powerhouse.
Vanity plays a big…

The big story is that the University of Florida has rolled out podcasts on its media website.
As with anything relating to podcasting, I’m not particularly thrilled with potential devolution in communication this move represents.
The not-so-bi…

Even if it’s stuff from a blogger I already know and enjoy, that doesn’t mean I want to listen to it vs. reading it, any more than I’d prefer listening to the latest issue of my favorite magazine. I prefer reading stuff like blogs; I don’t desire an alternate format.

Why would I want to take a blog posting off the Web and read it offline? That’s the point of accessing blogs, for me: Getting them while I’m online. Being able to click through to the hyperlinks they offer. All that. Audio files don’t do that for me.

I’m not cursed with a long commute. For the small amount of time I spend behind the wheel, I let my iPod spit out a few songs. Same goes for the instances I use my iPod during any other activity (when, if you can imagine, I can actually forgo background noise sometimes and just enjoy the silence). I don’t desire the change-up with some inane amateur attempt at a talk radio episode. (I don’t care for audiobooks either, for that matter.)

It’s up to individual preference, but like I said, the essence of blogging and most other Web-delivered content, in my mind, is text and images that can be absorbed at my own pace.

Nope, not quite… The whole idea is that you put it into an RSS feed, and it’s automatically downloaded and if possible, put on a portable device. The audioblog experience sucked for me until the automation in this fashion happened.

‘Audio (and video) on the web detracts from that.”

So take it off the web! I spend 90 minutes each day driving, and I’m not going to be reading during that time, but I can hear a lot of interesting stuff along the way. Don’t drive much? Do you walk? Workout at a gym?

“If this actually catches on, I’m betting it’ll result in a bunch of mumble-mouthed monologues that are barely coherent”

And this is different from blogs in what way? (Besides being spoken, not written.)

What podcasts have you listened to?