Podcasts have become professionalised IMHO as well. With the likes of the BBC creating tons of them which are written and recorded by professional journalists,

Podcasts have become professionalised IMHO as well. With the likes of the BBC creating tons of them which are written and recorded by professional journalists, the quality is pretty high and I can see these capturing the market from the amateur "I just recorded some crazy stuff and threw it out there" sector. It's also very different from the podcasts I think other posters are talking about, which have a host and guests, all of whom bloviate about whatever the topic of the day might be. That's just like an old-school radio show and not really very interesting to me.