I've never been a fan of talk radio, or audiobooks, which may explain why I've made no effort to investigate podcasts before. I poked around the search engines a bit but didn't really come up with anything that I'd want to listen to. The only podcasts I've ever actively sought out were the official "Lost" TV show podcasts from producers/writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, but even that has morphed into a video podcast with little or no value (in my eyes). This may change now that the writers' strike is officially over, we'll see, but obviously here it's the content that interests me (if you're not familiar with the series, it's designed to make one scrounge about for any and every scrap of explanation they'll toss out), not the method of delivery.
If podcasts were like themed musical radio shows I might find them more worthy of investigation, but as it is they seem to me like an even less interesting version of blogs*, with thousands floating around, disconnected, and unheard. Much as this blog will be unread.
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*Less interesting because, being text-based, blogs can be quickly scanned for items of interest or to get a general sense of the content. An audiostream requires headphones and patience for linear input, the pace of which you can't control. I haven't developed an interest in video blogs for the same reason. I do love the fact that video and audio content is widely vailable and easily accessible online, but I mostly use the audio to preview albums I'm interested in buying, and the video for comedy and music, especially when they're combined in unintentionally hilarious music videos:
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