A Comment on Podcasts.

Glenn Reynolds links to an interview of Iraq the Model's author Omar by Belmont Club's author Richard Fernandez. Sounds interesting, so I click on over.

It's a podcast.

This is the blogosphere. It's not talk radio. It's not that I mind that it's audio, but I want to READ the interview. There might be something in it I'd like to excerpt for a post, or save in my ever-growing "Quotes" file. While I'm at work, I like to listen to talk radio. It's often just background noise, but sometimes something truly interesting is said. One of the things I most appreciate is Duane Patterson's Radio Blogger site. Duane is the Senior Producer for Hugh Hewitt's afternoon radio show, and he posts transcripts of most of Hugh's interviews. Hugh has his own blog, but Duane does the transcripts. He often also posts audio links to the interviews as well, which I think is an excellent idea, but the written word is the media of the blogosphere, in my opinion. You want to podcast? Fine. I'm quite taken with Michelle Malkin's Hot Air site myself, but I WANT TRANSCRIPTS.

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