Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

As some of you may realize, I’ve been both a fill-in co-host and guest on a show called Your Mac Life where my friends Shawn, J, and Lesa let me talk about the latest Mac-related news until we get tired of it all (approximately 2.5 hours). I enjoy being on the show very much, and if it weren’t for the fact that I live in Dayton, Ohio, and the show originates in Nashville, Tennessee, I’d probably be there a whole hell of a lot more.

For quite a while now I’ve been toying with the idea of doing my own podcast, not as a competitor to something like YML, but more of a “me too” kind of thing. If I can’t join ‘em there, I’ll supplement ‘em here. The reason I haven’t created a podcast yet is because I don’t know if anyone would really be interested. I have a rough idea of approximately how many people read this page regularly, and it ain’t that many, often times because I’m not motivated to write in the depth that some other bloggers are. Every now and again I have something original here, and it seems to get its share of attention. But generally, I hate to use this page to repeat points that are better articulated by others, and turning it into link-o-rama would be equally pointless. Talking, however, is a different matter. I can say more than I can write, and I can say it with other people presenting different viewpoints or counterpoints. I can do more humorous things in a podcast than I can in writing. The format just lends itself to greater spontaneity and more information conveyed for less work.

But… the world of podcasting seems to be chock full of everyone with a microphone and an opinion chatting about many of the same things. I don’t want to be someone here spinning my wheels and creating more noise when nobody may care. So I have some questions for the readers of this site, and I’d like to get your responses in the comments section. To control spammers, I moderate comments to weed out the nastiness that isn’t caught by the filter, but rest assured that I want your honest opinion and censoring negative comments to this post isn’t the kind of petty stupidity I care enough to engage in.

Would you listen? Do you have the time and interest to add one more podcast to your list? Is the technology news and opinion podcast genre pretty much full? What would you want to hear? What would you not want to hear? Am I over-thinking this? Is there something I haven’t considered? Submit a comment and let’s see where this goes.