To me, the question to keep an eye out on is not whether huge podcasts end up in the same attraction basin as conventional mass media, but whether it remains po

To me, the question to keep an eye out on is not whether huge podcasts end up in the same attraction basin as conventional mass media, but whether it remains possible for someone to practically run a 1000-subscriber podcast, and similarly, whether or not the lower rungs of the ladder remain or if they end up pulled up. There is certainly no technical reason why it should be hard to run a podcast, and I don't expect the largest podcasting hosts to do anything but push the largest podcasts, but as long as the low end remains an interesting, bubbling froth of anyone who has a modestly interesting opinion about anything and they're still available for anyone to find if they try, I'm not too worried.