[LINK] RFC - Critiques of interview technique

[Ash Nallawalla]

> From: Tom Worthington

> I suggest dropping the "A Series of Tubes" title for something more
> informative. A comment from a US Republican Senator does not make for
> a good technology show title
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes>.

I too had not heard about the senator and his ignorant remarks, so I would
have skipped the title. While I like to think I am fairly up to date with
"everything" on the Net, I am not. :-)

> One question I have is if anybody listens to such podcasts? 

Some people do, but my MP3 player software downloads my subscribed podcasts
faithfully and some poor sod thinks that thousands of people listen to him.
I rarely get time to listen to the podcasts and they just get overwritten.

I don't have the patience to let the podcast presenter waffle on before
getting to the main points. With online/printed text I can skim until I find
something of interest. For me, podcasts from the BBC or CNN News are fine,
but opinion pieces test my patience.

Ash