I enjoy Pod Casts, for the same reason that I’ve always enjoyed radio shows. I enjoy music as background noise while I’m working on something, but i prefer content when I am not doing anything else (falling asleep, on the PRT, Driving, etc … ).
The problem i’ve found though is that Pod Casts tend to suck. My current line up is this:
- Buzz Out Loud : A pod cast that reads tid-bits of news they find via RSS, then talk about it. Problem is that 75% of the time they really have NO idea what they are talking about. Imagine Jeffrey Zeldman analyzing Tiger Woods golf swing on a daily basis. Its about that painful.
- TWiT : a pod cast by Leo Laporte. enough said. I listen to this pod cast when I run out of anything else. Sometimes they have interesting guests on the show that actually have something worth listening too. Sometimes.
- Escape Pod : This is the only Pod Cast I listen too that I would classify as ‘good’ or ‘worth listening too’. I discovered it about a week or two ago, and it is ALMOST exactly what I’ve been complaining doesn’t exist. Each week they take a piece of short science fiction and read it out loud. Each piece is about 20 to 40 minutes in length and is at least entertaining.
I’ve been craving stories in pod casts. Radio shows like the Long Ranger, or War of the Worlds from the early and mid 1900’s. I think well done productions like that could do wonderfully in the pod-cast arena. I would be more than willing to pay a monthly subscription for good, original, shows. Hell, right now I’d be willing to pay money for good, unoriginal radio-style shows in the form of a pod-cast. Where they get voice actors, do sound effects, etc …
In fact, I would probably be more willing to pay a monthly fee for this than I am for TV which looses my interest more and more each month.
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