Podcasting Hype

So lots of 'big bloggers' are getting all excited about Podcasting  and hyping it up like it's some kind of blogging for the 4th dimension. By all accounts, blogging is about to go very mainstream, so the people who got in early are hoping to maintain their leading edge by jumping onboard the next bandwagon  before it starts rolling. But aren't there just a few teeney little snags.....?

• you can't search audio for keywords
• FFwd and rewind are hit or miss
• you can't include hyperlinks in an audio stream ( the killer ) 
• it takes at least three times as long to listen as it does to read
• many otherwise interesting people speak with really irritating accents
• um, er, like... you know what I'm saying?

Comments

[Linda Hartley]

At best podcasts are like the tapes the OU used to send out, at worst they are more like the tapes we used to record to send to friends, lots of self-conscious rambling and some badly recorded music in the background.Take 'em or leave 'em. If audio is your thing rather than text maybe it might work. The hype is just that - hype.
While I am here, have you any idea how annoying it is that I can't get an RSS feed for this blog? Is it your intention to discriminate against people who use NetNewsWire Lite? I have had to put this site on my already over-crowded toolbar and I have to come to the site(!) to see if there are any new posts.

[Andy Roberts]

Young people today, always demanding their rights and complaining about discrimination without ever accepting responsibilities, oh no. So what's wrong with this one then?
http://usability.typepad.com/grumpy_old_people/index.rdf

[Linda Hartley]

So you think that makes it ok do you? Now I have to take it off my toolbar! Plus I now look like an idiot for complaining about it.

[Jake McDingo]

It's at times like this that I wonder what Gregor Mendel would say.

[Andy Roberts]

Gregor Mendel - don't mention Gregor Mendel, we hate him down our road. Thought he knew about peas but what did he really know about peas, the proper kind, like you might have with your fish supper?

eh?

[Jake McDingo]

Streams, lakes and oceans are man's dumping ground. I wouldn't know anything about your smelly fish supper.

[Chris McEvoy]

Linda, no-one is ever an idiot for complaining (hence this blog). And If you can't complain here, then where can you complain.

It's actually Ben and Mena Trotters fault for naming the link "Syndicate this site" in a high and mighty manner.

It should be a standard xml button, so don't feel bad, it's there fault not yours.

[Frankie Roberto]

"Syndicate this site" is in the Moveable Type default templates, so blame them instead.

[Jake McDingo]

I blame Nader.

[Linda Hartley]

Nader? Who was he? What about Debbs then? Now there was someone who really could have changed things! Not sure who Debbs was? Tut and I thought you read Andy's blogue!

[Jake McDingo]

Yeah, laugh at me because I don't know this Debbie chick you're talking about. Fine.

I'm a bit concerned you think you're reading Andy's blogue with your pharaoh friend by your side. Are you smoking crack?

[Andy Roberts]

Thanks to everyone for helping me to win the first GOP "most comments" competition.

I want my prize now, please.

[Chris McEvoy]

It's in the post. (tee hee hee)

[Andy Roberts]

I waited in all morning two days in a row for the postman but all I got through the letterbox was a promotional Xmas card from the Indian takeaway, a phone bill and two offers to transfer balances between credit cards. You did wrap it up in standard brown paper and send it 1st Class I hope?

[Chris McEvoy]

Post: An electronic message sent to a newsgroup

[Andy Roberts]

Doh. Ok you got me there.

No way am I going over to make the pickup in alt.sex.bestiality.hamster.duct-tape or whichever one it is you hang out in these days.

[Dave Addey]

Podcasting: like blogs, but without the speed of the 'back' button when you come across a posting which goes entirely off-topic. Like this one.

[Dino]

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