Asymptomatic

I’ve listened to a few podcasts over the past few days, and they’ve all left me with a “bleh” feeling. The ones that seem to be popular all fit a certain mold. You either have a couple of guys yapping about technology, or a guy and his girlfriend talking about nothing anyone cares about.

Brian had always said that he has no interest in blogs, since he really doesn’t care to know what some random person he’s never met has to say about what he ate for lunch that day. I’ve since been trying to stick to issues that are not lunch-related in posting here. For example, I would only tell you about the ham and cheese sandwich I had for lunch if there was some other story around the ham and cheese sandwich that might be of interest. Because really, ham and cheese is not all that interesting to me.

But these podcasts, I don’t know. They start with a pretty firm idea, but then they roll off on tangents so wild that I wonder if their presenters really have a care for their audience. It’s a strange thing, putting the microphone in the hands of the people. Sure, you get a raw feed of the people, but it’s often so raw that it’s worthless. I think it’s for the same reason why you see a lot of girls flash for handheld video camera - the magic of being in front of the camera loosens clothing like it loosens the lips of podcasters.