Hey Jeff,

A couple reasons:

1) It’s a personality thing — as I’ve said before, I’m just a text-oriented person when it comes to the web. I’m going to have to get used to the notion of listening. (Same thing goes for downloading to the iPod, actually — my iPod time is spent on the metro listening to music while I read.)

2) Sure, I like blogs, but then blogs are easy. Every time I looked at directions for finding and subscribing podcasts it just seemed too complicated. (It’s easy to click and listen, of course — I just never bothered to figure out how to get the feed.)

3) Circling back to #1 — if I was more predisposed to listening to audio, I suppose I would have taken the time to figure it out.

The iTunes interface is super-easy. Makes it much more likely that I will do it (and I will).

I have much the same argument with RSS. Talk to me when I don’t have to think about it. Until then, I still tend to rely on bookmarks. I’m probably not all that unusual (at least insofar as this stuff goes, anyway).

Don’t worry, Jeff — I’m not anti-podcast or even anti-audio. Back in the office over the last couple of months my IT guy and I have been quietly laying into some new audio equipment and software for a little project back at ACCA we’re going to be testing …. but I like to keep some things a secret.