Musings

I listen to podcasts downloaded from iTunes (yup, I’m the few lucky ones who registered on itunes US site before they slammed the door on registrations outside of the US) and I enjoy them.

They are usually podcasts of panel discussions and seminars held at Stanford, MIT or Harvard. Usually about tech of course. So I’ve listened to Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt etc. Very useful.

Why then do people not listen to podcasts? Is it so difficult to do? At iTunes you browse through the lists. At other sites you follow, you download the audio file to the computer and then transfoer to the MP3 player.

Pew Internet’s report on podcasts showed that 19% of all Internet users listened to podcasts, up from 12% reported in August 2006. (Go here if you want to read the report http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/261/report_display.asp). Puzzles me why people don’t listen to podcasts?

It brings to you “live” information that you don’t have a chance to go to. Maybe the process is still too difficult. Also, you can start learning quite of lot of things from 101 in philosophy to genetics.

I guess, people are really lazy or are we not really a digital nation?

• NUS on iTunes podcast
• James Bond and his toys
• Listening to a book
• A really good story on Apple
• An iPod shuffle that talks?