With a post, I can skim to see if it’s worth really reading, or with a dozen posts, I can do a text search for keywords I care about. But with audio, I can’t search it nearly as efficiently.

There is some use for A/V blogging… but I doubt it’s the “next big thing”. Reading is still the fastest way to communicate accurately.

Other than that ….. you can listen to music while you read blogs.

I agree that there are a lot of boring podcasters. But don’t put them all in the same category quite yet. This is a very young medium, only a few months old. Some of us are finding ways to combine the best of blogging with audio from interesting sources like NPR and C-SPAN, with careful editing, to produce reasonably good material. I find interesting blog posts, read them, and include what people say on the topic on radio or TV as a way to improve on the bloggers. Give mine a listen if you get a minute. It’s a way to stay in touch with the blogosphere while you are driving to work or going for a walk.

Charlie