The problem with audioblogs is real-time playback. It’s not too bad…yet. I can listen to all of Adam’s shows, and Dave’s posts, but at 45-90 minutes a day, it already ain’t easy. There are audio blogs I want to listen to on a regular basis, but I just don’t have the time. (As it is, to produce IT Conversations I’ve got the headphones on for many hours a day.)
So what happens when we hit critical blog-mass? Are we already there? Like Scoble, I can use RSS to scan a whole lotta text blogs in a short period of time, but there’s no way (yet) to do that with audio. What’s the solution? Is it meta-blogging (bloggers who help us find the best-of other blogs)? Will excerpts help? I dunno.
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Time. Yeah. Good observation Doug.
Podcasters, seems to me, are making some fundamental errors regarding their podcasts. Producing shows of 45 minutes and so. Mimicking broadcasters. Some – or all – might do best to spend a little time editing. None of this is live, there is no demand to stay on the clock. If podcasters were to think of their podcasts as a song – or a blog post for that matter – and come in at one and a half to two to three minutes, we might all be a bit better off.
There’s technology out there that can speed up listening of mp3′s. It’ll take out the spaces, shorten vowels etc. It’s called Time Scale Modification.