I fully agree and fully disagree with this. Podcasting is radio without the constraints of frequency.

That’s both good and bad. Radio was a magical medium to me, but it was utterly destroyed first by the attack of the conservatives and then by the consolidation by Clear Channel, etc, and finally by internet imploding ad models. So you have angry white guys and the annoying, high quality NPR content.

But I think it’s different. Spotify wants to be Clear Channel, but as long as Apple and others have a benign disinterest, there’s unlimited content available. I listen to my old geek podcasts, but there is a tremendous well of quality content in many areas. From history to finance mostly for me.

The radio style content is mostly crap.