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May 30, 2005
Podcasting Lacks Safeguards of Blogging
Here are some problems with podcasting, according to Ann Althouse--
Podcasts undoubtedly have their share of idiotic and contemptible statements. But you can't Google for them or see them in Technorati or link to them and critique them. I happened to transcribe one just now, but that's not much different from transcribing something I heard someone say down at the coffeeshop. . . . Thus, podcasting is not like blogging. It lacks the inherent structural safeguards that make the blogosphere work in service to the truth.
Full entry here.
Posted by Evan Schaeffer at May 30, 2005 01:44 PM
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