You know I love podcasts (my wife says I'm obsessed). I keep a little MP3 player and FM transmitter in the van loaded with shows. I listen while driving, mowing the lawn, blowing out the driveway, and walking (get a decent pair of earphones to block out noise for anything but driving). I *never* listen to podcasts when I'm at work because it's distracting and inefficient. A good podcast gets the mental juices flowing while I'm doing something menial like mowing. But to really get a bunch of stuff crammed into my head, I want to scan text.

In the course of catching up with some missed FeedBlitz emails from the week we moved the Ardent office, I found out Peter Davis and Scoble agree:

http://www.petertdavis.net/192-podcasts-an-efficient-means-of-content-delivery/

http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/06/25/peter-says-podcasting-is-inefficient/

http://www.petertdavis.net/193-robert-and-the-other-podcast-guys-this-is-what-youre-missing/

Oh yeah, podcasts are great to listen to while puttering around airports and sitting on airplanes when you're too fried to work or when there's not enough time to get out the ol' laptop and get into a groove.

For the true music fanatic, this is all heresy. We should be listening to music, not silly podcasts. That's what I used to do. Right now I'm on a podcast kick. Who knows what I'll be doing next year.

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