Podcast schmodcast!

Podcasts are like podpeople.  They seem easy and innocent, and the Common Craft video (is that a podcast too?) makes it seem like the best thing since cream cheese met olives.  Don’t you believe it!!  I found myself being sucked inexorably down the vortex of Doom to the everlasting darkness of true confusion as soon as I clicked on the first podcast directory link!  Joy, Gerald, how could you do this to me?!!  Here my confidence was growing by leaps and bounds, my comfort level was heading for “Cushiony Soft,” and I successfully inserted not one but TWO YouTube videos into my last blog post, then this.  Utter despair and defeat is only scratching the surface.

Yes, I listened to a couple (or parts of a couple) of podcasts, then found one I might actually want to continue with, but at that point I had something like 63 windows open, and the darn things kept asking me to “click here” whereupon a whole new window of gook would appear, I’d be asked to download and update and outsource and come up with yet another password (in the future all my passwords will be short but effective obscenities from British Slang, by the way).  So I am still in the dark about what I am actually using as a “podcatcher,”  where it is, what it is, and if I will ever get back to the podcasts from the nice lady in Wales who is knitting something that sounds like “Claptree” and find out what it is.

As far as finding and inserting an RSS for any podcast I actually found and could listen to, Go Fish.  I couldn’t figure that out, not even with a cold sardine held to my throat!

Assuming, as I do, that everyone else in creation knows more about this than I do, and that most of them actually enjoy podcasts, I think the Library had best get busy with a fun series of podcasts about soon to be published books, events around town, author visits, etc.  Maybe they’re already out there, I wouldn’t know!

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