Announcing BlawgCast.com: One-Stop Browsing for Law-Related Podcasts

Are you a podcasting naysayer like, say, Jurispundit? In a post titled "What's the Big Deal with Podcasts?" Jurispundit wrote:

[T]he "Information Era" brought the internet and to a lesser extent cable news such that we could avoid the dreaded "local news anchor." It seems we have gone full circle. Only this time to new lows. Rather than amateur broadcasters, we're listening to amateurs pretending to be amateur broadcasters. Here's to hoping this fad passes quickly.

I'm one who happens to disagree. You can argue about the quality of podcasting content all day long. As with weblogs, there's plenty of junk. But the revolutionary thing about podcasting in these early stages isn't the content, but the way the content is delivered. Using software like iPodder, the content is delivered to your mp3 device automatically. Podcasting is TIVO for your iPod. You can choose what you want to listen to and you can listen to it without having to sit at a computer. Not only does podcasting give you more options than with radio, but the content isn't governed by the restrictive FCC-enforced rules that have made ordinary radio so plain vanilla. And that content continues to improve every day.

Perhaps my cheerleading makes you ill. If so, you'll be happy to learn that this is the last time I'll promote podcasting on this weblog. Why's that? Because as of this week, I've become a co-host at Kevin Heller's BlawgCast.com, a weblog designed to bring you news about all the developments in law-related podcasting.

Although I'll continue to post my own podcasts on this weblog, I won't be commenting very much on the phenomenon of podcasting. I'll save all that for BlawgCast. It's at BlawgCast, for example, that I'll be urging Professor Althouse to record one those con-law lectures she frequently writes about. I mean, why not? Why can't the occasional law-school lecture be a podcast? Or oral arguments from appellate courts? Or recordings of lawyers giving practice tips like the Texas Bar's Ten Minute Mentor? To turn such audio content into a podcast is as simple as putting it into a RSS feed. It really takes no time at all.

It's at BlawgCast where Kevin and I will be discussing ideas like these while we cover all the latest news about judges, law professors, lawyers and law students who podcast. Already, Kevin has developed a can't-be-missed feature at BlawgCast: a single feed that will allow you to keep up on a variety of legal podcasts at once. You'll find the details here.

See you at BlawgCast!

Comments

[Kevin Heller]

Thanks Evan.