Okay, okay – everybody has to understand that “podcasting” is nothing new. We do have a convergence of certain “small pieces, loosely joined,' but this doesn't mean that folks weren't streaming their own audio / video files before last week. When Jake and I were doing the radio show in Des Moines, we were scoring over 3,000 MP3 downloads per week – and that was over three years ago! Beyond having a slight issue with the label (as I, among millions of gadget enthusiasts, do not own an iPod), this still doesn't solve much in terms of our time / content management. It's cool, yes – but it's not new, and I hope VCs understand that. It's not so much revolutionary as much as it is evolutionary, and I give respect to Adam Curry, Dave Winer, Eric Rice, pt, et al (that is, credit where credit is due).

I'm not trying to say that the emperor has no clothes… because if you want to watch me making coffee in the morning – that's up to you. If you want me to shock myself senseless, that's up to you. Hell, even I'm getting ready to take my brand back to the audio waves soon, and had been planning to do so before this whole thing errupted. I believe folks are just now waking up to the fact that we no longer have to rely on “big media” to get “great content.” Convocasting, skypecasting, gnomecasting, whatnotcasting – it's all the same thing. It's Internet radio, only newer? It's sharing ideas with the rest of the world online, only better? Yes *AND* no. Enclosures + MP3 + BitTorrent + RSS = A New Bandwagon.