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Darren Barefoot stood up to try and point out why he thinks podcasting is over-hyped. His article makes some interesting points, but the real meat of the page is in the comments, where a remarkably civilized discussion roams around the merits and drawbacks of podcasting.

For me, though, the original article can almost be reduced to the following quote:

Personally, I have no commute, and I find that I can’t listen to talking while I’m writing. So, that really limits the available hours for listening to podcasts.

I understand exactly where he is coming from. Listening to a podcast while doing any kind of “brain work” is ineffective and faintly ridiculous. It wasn’t until I got a portable player and started listening during otherwise “dead time” (commuting, chores, eye-time away from the computer monitor …) that I finally got the “high” from the “podcasting dope".

Many people already listen to recorded music at such times. If it works for you, fine. Podcasting is no big deal when you are already time-shifting and location-shifting your music.

Personally, I don’t much enjoy listening to recorded music, and I have never been able to find talk radio I’m interested in, when and where I’ve actually been available to listen. Podcasting neatly fills that gap.

I don’t usually listen to podcasts at my computer any more. That’s reserved for RocketBoom :)

Read more at: Why I’m Not Smoking the Podcasting Dope | Darren Barefoot