Week 11: Podcasts

I've had an interesting relationship with podcasts, and my interesting I actually mean that I barely listen to them. Though I'll get into that in a minute.

For what they are, podcasts are simple, yet effective. All you have is a person, or maybe a couple of people just talking about anything. It could range from current events, to tv shows, to what they are cooking in the microwave. From a certain standpoint, I would even consider them better than blogs as you can hear more of the person's inflection which gives you a much better idea of their tone in comparison to plain text.

Though I hit a fatal flaw with listening to podcasts in the idea that I get bored. This isn't talking about a boring podcast in general, even if I'm listening to a really humorous guy, I'll still get bored of listening to the podcast. It might stem from the fact that I want to do something, or nothing else but a guy's voice for a solid hour can get boring, but I can rarely sit through one. Basically, I need to be reading something else or playing a game while listening to a podcast in order to sit through the whole thing. And even then I need to hopefully not space out on what the podcast is saying, which is very likely.

I will repeat myself saying I think podcasts are really cool, but I need something to distract me while listening to them or I'll lose interest doing nothing. It's a bit of a shame, but what are you going to do?