Thanks to a pointer from Dave Winer, I just read a longish piece from the Boston Phoenix about podcasting.  And tonight at dinner it seemed as if podcasting was dominating the conversation -- how to book the guests, how to keep them slightly (mentally) off-balance as you interview them on your couch, whether to interview avatars or not (and in what setting), how often to send out your podcasts, what signature jingle to use -- and I know I'm falling down on the job here by not podcasting.

What's my hesitation?  It took me longer than it took Bret to start blogging, and I'm clearly waaay behind him when it comes to the pod.  Is this just late adoption?  Or is something else going on?

I have a confession to make.  Just between you and me.  I haven't listened to podcasts.  I just haven't.  I ... like .... text.  I like scanning Joi's text and Joho's text and everyone else's text.  I even like fonts.  Maybe I don't want to be on someone else's timescale -- maybe I only want to read the first lines of paragraphs and not wait for their stories and music to roll out.  But I do love This American Life. 

Maybe I'm really an old-media person pretending to be enthusiastic about new media.  Maybe a blog was just enough old-new to be palatable for me.  Dave Winer actually said this about me (publicly) at the Berkman podcasting session:  "You don't have a port for podcasting."  Ouch.

Watch.  In a few months I'll finally figure it out, waaay after Bret.  Again.