While he was still a sceptic in October 2004, Russell Beattie has taken the Pepsi Challenge and tried out listening to podcasts in the car:
I am officially hooked on Podcasting!
I drove down to work this morning and listened to Adam Curry on my new MuVo and was quite entertained for most of the ride down (he’s actually a great morning DJ) and then coming back I listened to most of Jerry Fiddler’s talk over at IT Conversations. WOW! What a difference it made to my hour long commute! I almost didn’t want to get out of the car tonight. No searching for a station, no frustration in the topics that NPR is talking about tonight and though I love her dearly, no Terri Gross. Awesome!
(via russellbeattie.com)
This is something I experienced myself and have seen in others too: while it is possible to listen to podcasts at your PC, it’s not ideal. You start reading your email, dive into the fridge, switch on the television and get terribly distracted. For me it was also a 2-hour morning commute listening to IT Conversations Pop!Tech series that made me realise to how much use my previously ‘lost’ time in the car could be put.
So if you’ve never done it in the car, don’t make a judgement about the values of podcasting. It’s like comparing a car seat with your cosy couch at home: it might not be as comfortable to sit in, but this is more than compensated for by the fact that your car can drive you around, and your sofa most probably not.
Come on, it’s the New Year, you know you deserve it: Apple iPod Mini: 272€ – Creative Muvo2: 200€ or if you just took your company public: Apple iPod photo 60GB: 707€.
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I was *never* a skeptic of PodCasting! Did you *read* the post you linked to? My point has always been that PodCasting is great, but the future of PodCasting is centered on the mobile phone, not the MP3 player. -Russ
I have indeed read your post and I thought you were sceptic, not that you were negative.
“Anyways, I was wondering why I haven’t been super-jazzed about Podcasting. It’s not that I don’t think it’s neat – I do.”
What I thought when I read it was: he doesn’t see it, yet. He understands how it works, what some of the future applications could be, but it doesn’t ring his bell now. The tone in your last post was completely different.
And why not buying the Griffin iTrip FM transmitter? Works great and still allows me using my bluetooth headset.