'Hip' journalists and other assorted old farts have been earning their money (huh!) by directing attention to the 'new' phenonama of blogging. If one believes their hype, in a short while half the world will be writing blogs whilst the other half will be reading them. Tell that to the people in Kashmire.
As owner of an iPod (gloat gloat) I have been listening to verbal blogs - podcasts. Whilst - by their name - these are intended for tiny-sized music players, they can be found, downloaded for free and listened to by anyone who can get music onto their hard drive. Originators range from BBC and major enterprises to Shane and Kristel in Kristel's room. Just as with blogs, quality and content covers just about everything in reproductions from abysmal to medium-fi. Rather more so really, to record a podcast requires absolutely no reedin skils, kompasitun or grmmer. Think back to the days of reel to reel or cassette when we first recorded 'Allo - this is me' and were amazed to hear our voice coming back at us.
That said, I have spent some time in podcast central. Anything you find can be downloaded for posterity. Rather like panning for gold I suspect. 5 drams gold in 10 tons dross used to be thought profitable; it seems that the recovery ratio is about the same for podcasts.
So - instead of worrying if the plod will be able to recover your porn site visits, get ahead of the game and be able to sneer when in a year's time you read 'podcasts take off'. They already have and are halfway to Mars.
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