Podcasting: party on Adam Curry’s MP3 player

Yet another major media article on podcasting. Bonus points to Brian Braiker for drawing this comparison between coverage of blogging and podcasting:

Just when the mainstream media had finally managed to figure out what blogging was all about, Adam Curry had to go
ahead and invent podcasting. A podcast is a radio show that listeners subscribe to online. Every time a new program
is posted, it automatically feeds into the subscriber's computer. From there, the listener zaps it onto a digital
music player and hits the road: Think of it as TiVo for your MP3 player. "There's a lot of great radio out there that
I would love to listen to when I am ready for it," says Curry (yes, that Adam Curry—MTV's old-school golden-feathered
late-'80s veejay). "Anyone can come and party on my MP3 player."

With our 20/20 hindsight pointed in the right direction, we can take away from the swift explosion of podcasting that we bloggers could have been taken seriously far sooner if only we had enlisted the help of an 80's pop icon turned techno-guru as our spokesperson. If only Doc Searls had feathered hair.