John C. Dvorak, you old crusty battleship, it’s time to head back to port for decommissioning. His latest wobbling shot is fired across the bow of Podcasting, the RSS and MP3 combo that lots of people are using to broadcast music and talk shows to portable audio device—not just iPods, as Dvorak blubbers. Not only does he relegate it to the domain of those persnickety Macintosh users (“And while Macheads will huff and puff about Windows and how much better the Mac is, they are always wrong.”) despite that fact that that majority of Podcast listeners use Windows software on Windows machines on Windows iPods, he goes on to trash the Podcasting concept solely on the basis that he doesn’t like the content that he downloaded. Wow, bullseye.
While it’s fun to call people cunts—trust me, I know—leave it Dvorak to take something that is entirely platform agnostic and turn it into another stupid Apple vs. Microsoft debate, trying to talk trash about a single choice out of the already wide-ranging programs that Podcasting embraces. Classy straw man, dude, especially when you bail out right at the end of the article and say “podcasting does stand a chance of becoming popular.”
All it does it firmly convince me that Podcasting does have a future, just like most technologies do when Dvorak can’t fail through a simple interface long enough to actually figure them out.
Would anybody care to hear a Gizmodo podcast? I could probably talk for 10 minutes just about Dvorak’s mom and her centipedes—it would be just as fair and incisive.
I’m serious about the Podcast thing, too. If you’re interested, send me an email and let me know.
