So I installed iPodder on CYBERACD (a fairly idle server here at LISCO that Bucket gave me pcAnywhere access to), added a few feeds to it, and synched the results onto my mini.

I’ve now got about a hundred minutes worth of podcasting in my pocket. Gawd I hope they don’t all suck.

I surfed Podcasting News, Podcast Alley, and podcast.net for stuff to listen to, and I can’t believe how many husband/wife shows there are. It’s like an epidemic. I asked Buzz, “Who the hell wants to listen to married couples talk? Is there some huge market of unmarried, desperate-to-BE-married people out there with iPods who download this stuff?” (Then later, still surfing for ‘casts, I mumbled, “With my luck I’ll become totally facinated by married podcast shows, turn into someone who listens to nothing but married couple podcasts. That’ll totally suck.”)

Anyone, anywhere, with a tiny bit of equipment and a DSL can ‘produce’ their own ‘shows’ and put them on the Internet. It’s exciting, yes. But also a little bit creepy – reading something by a stranger is one thing, but HEARING it (do I really want to listen to some random married couple cooking in their kitchen?!) is altogether more intimate.

So tonight, as I drive home, I’m gonna check out some podcasts. And again, I sure hope it doesn’t suck.