Mmmmmmmm. Bubblicious……..

There’s a lot of talk about bubbles floating about. There’s the housing bubble (with its new mascot, Mr. Housing Bubble), there’s the blog bubble, and now, with the recent funding of Podshow and Odeo, enter the the podcast bubble.

Please forgive me. I must be missing something. While I do understand the desire to expand into audio blogging, or perhaps more specifically citizen created collaborative radio, I just don’t get the pocast thing. Yes, it’s a audio program delivered via a feed. Um. Okay. I could get mp3 files of a show e-mailed to me too. Hasn’t Audible been around since, um, 1997? It’s not exactly revolutionary, or for that matter, even evolutionary.

iPods, in their current incarnations, are a stop-gap solution. They’re means of addressing the lack of connectivity we experience when we leave our desks. But as the next generation of wireless technology grows up (be it Wi-Max, 4G, etc.), locally stored content will increasingly give way to on-demand streaming. Podcasting isn’t really a step in this direction. If anything, it’s largely a step backwards, removing the interactivity of the network.

That said, since everyone’s doing it, I’ll be launching podiansolutions.com next week, and accepting venture funding soon after.