I'm mostly over podcasts


Podcasting is like, so last year.

Last year, it was kind of fun. There were not too many podcasts and it was kind of exciting and new. I subscribed to a bunch of them and tried to keep up and as new ones (even those which were only slightly interesting to me) came out, I'd subscribe to those too. I was getting hours of new audio every day. Pretty soon, I couldn't keep up. These days, I'm pretty much only listening to the KCRW and WFMU podcasts with the occasional BBC or Adam Curry podcast thrown in. I'm kind of tired of listening to the equivalent of bad college radio downloaded to my hard drive if I'm interested in a specific episode or not.

I think now that the podcasting is established, it is time to move to the second generation of podcasting clients. I think that IT Conversations has it right. IT Conversations gives you a text RSS feed with info about new shows and then you can add any show you are interested to into a custom podcast rss feed. It isn't that I don't like Dan Klass or Dawn and Drew, it is just that I don't have time to listen to every one of their shows to find the stuff I care about. It isn't like text, I can't scan it and it takes too much time to listen to the whole thing. I'm hoping that iTunes 4.9 will work more closely to this.

Posted: Thu - June 23, 2005 at 09:52 PM           |

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