Quit your day job. Go on. I dare you.

I’ve suddenly got into podcasts again after about a year or so without listening to them. I’ve got no internet radio at home, just an ipod connection to my stereo, so podcasting is the perfect way to get a bit of news in the flat in the morning while I’m having my coffee.

The quality of podcasting has gone up hugely in the last year. The BBC, guardian and other big players have really started to consider the medium as a valid, mainstream medium. Which is great. The problem with podcasting before was that the content was made by numpties. It was all part of the lure of the technology, the fact that the people could broadcast to the people. Unfortunately, I don’t want to hear the views of plebs in their spare rooms. I want to listen to the most highly paid, most professionally edited, and best content available. If the indie podcasters haven’t got a proper job in the broadcasting industry, then there’s probably a good reason for that. They’re not very good.

So every morning there’s a vaguely up to date BBC news show stored on the ipod ready for me to listen to before work. I don’t care if it’s a day old. It’s not like the people I hang out with in Chamonix are news hounds. In fact, you’d be hard pushed to find anyone who knows that there was a coup in Thailand recently. Still harder pushed to find anyone who cares.

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