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I hope exclusive podcasts don't become a trend. Podcasts are very good media format for informal education / learning. Instead of spending 30 hours reading a bo
by wenbin 7y ago
I hope exclusive podcasts don't become a trend. Podcasts are very good media format for informal education / learning. Instead of spending 30 hours reading a book, you can just listen to conversion among smart people in 30 minutes in podcasts. If there are more and more exclusive & paid podcasts, it'll become harder for young people (or people from poor areas) to access to the content.
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- xamuel 7y ago>Instead of spending 30 hours reading a book, you can just listen to conversion among smart people in 30 minutes in podcasts I don't understand this. Why can't that 30 minute conversation be transcribed into a script which you can read in 5 minutes? Either way, you're missing practically everything in the book.
- jeena 7y agoIt might be possible but I rather listen relaxed to those people on my train ride than staring concentrated on my phone for 5 minutes.
- PascLeRasc 7y agoWhy listen to music when you can read the lyrics? The written word was created out of a need to disseminate information to the masses more efficiently than the author speaking to everyone individually, but that's now a mostly solved problem with podcast distribution. Spoken word allows for certain nuances that are hard or impossible to convey over text. Also, it's just fun to listen to a few good hosts go back and forth.
- lordfoom 7y ago>Why listen to music when you can read the lyrics? I feel that is a false equivalence as information transfer is not typically part of music.