Posted by: James Williamson

Hi everyone, James here. We've been getting tons of mail asking when the next show will be released. We are, it seems, a bit tardy with our latest offerings. I'd love to tell you that Josh and I are planning this huge fantastic show and that we're lining up all kinds of cool people that require us to hold off...but that just wouldn't be true. The truth is that Josh and I have seen more of the insides of airplanes than each other lately. For the last three weeks we've both been on the road in places like Cleveland, Denver, Fort Worth, and lovely Sanford, North Carolina.

So all I can say is SORRY!! We're trying to hook up and do a remote show, but even that has been hard to work out. We're taking the week of the 4th off as a breather, but rest assured that you'll be getting a juicy new nugget of Lodebearing goodness shortly thereafter. Keep on checking back, please (or better yet, just have your RSS feeder let you know.

Now, since I have your attention, I thought I'd weigh in on a subject that has been gathering steam lately. John Dowdell writes about Robert Scoble and Peter Davis going back and forth at each other as to the viability of Podcasting as a long-term medium. Seems that Davis thinks that podcasting is a bit of a fad while Scoble seems to think he's not looking at every angle.

Being a podcaster myself, this got me thinking as to whether or not our podcast was really accomplishing what we want it to do. My own personal opinion is that podcasting can become an accepted, main-stream means of delivering news and entertainment, but only if a streamlined way of filtering through the signal-to-noise ratio is arrived at. Right now the hardest part of our podcasting (besides finding time to do the damned thing) is making people aware that it's there. We've seen a slow, steady increase in the number of listeners with each podcast. That means that you guys are sticking around after listening to a show or two. That's great! But building our audience to the level we'd like is taking considerable time and probably won't ever happen until one of the bigger blogs writes about us (or we get Digged), or until i-Tunes decides we're the flavor of the week.

So, I think that the biggest hurdle that podcasting currently has in becoming a mainstream source of content is the lack of quick, easy ways for most people to find quality podcasts. Perhaps someone can do a pandora for podcasting?...

See you guys soon!

-James