What's happening to podcasts now previously happened to the WWW. In the 1.0 era, websites were hand-crafted and made for no other reason than curiosity and tim

What's happening to podcasts now previously happened to the WWW. In the 1.0 era, websites were hand-crafted and made for no other reason than curiosity and time. Then businesses got into the game, and personal websites disappeared. Today, unless you are a developer or have something to sell, chances are that you wouldn't even think of creating a website. It seems that podcasts followed the exact same path. As late as 2012, podcasts were niche things that most had heard about, but few actually considered doing. Today, like websites, podcasts are just another arm of marketing at best, or an ad delivery vector at worst.