You are such a bore

Last night, I decided to try to listen to a couple of podcasts. Podcasts, as you probably already know, are fragments of (uh) spoken things. Some people call it the next installment of blogging. Some say it’s the future of the Internet. And others claim it will bring the mainstream media to a grinding halt.

Uh, actually, I believe those things are going to bring the Internet to a grinding halt: podcasts are (generally) plain mp3 files with an average size of 10-20 MB. There are (were?) attempts to utilize Bittorrent for downloading podcasts, but, looking at the sites of ‘Podcast Poineers‘, it looks like they have those mp3 files just available as a regular download. My first thought? Bandwidth. (I noted that one of the ‘Pioneers’ actually uses his homepage at Mac.com to store those podcasts).

Next: I was listening to a Scripting Podcast Pioneer (you know who you are) and had to force myself not to turn the sound off within the first minute. What followed was so pretentious, so amazingly un-un-(I have no word for this) , that I wonder if anyone ever told the Pioneer that he is such a bore. Maybe mr. Scripting Podcast Pioneer’s friends don’t dare to tell him. Since I’m not associated with anyone here I’ll say it: “Mr. Scripting Podcast Pioneer: you’re such a bore“.

I assumed that listening to the Veejay Podcast Pioneer might be actually interesting. I ended up listening to endless rants about endlessly amazing New York, and his endlessly funny (uh the f-word) great nightlife and that. “Mr. Veejay Podcast Pioneer, you are such an endless bore”.

I could go on and on, but I would be repeating myself endlessly and bore the readers to death. After listening a couple of podcasts, I ended up with the following conclusion: ‘If you’re not interesting, then you must be a podcaster’. I think that summarizes it perfectly.