At the mo I’m watching Stephen Pollard and Chris Mounsey (Devil’s Kitchen) and Ian Dale and two others I don’t recognise [update - rachelnorthlondon and Ben Sherrard] on a stream from 18 Doughty Street, talking about the blogosphere.
IPTV - 18 Doughty Street
At the same time I’m downloading my podcasts to listen to, this evening and tomorrow, in place of my old listening habit which was solid BBC Radio 4, good and bad (and the bad was very, very bad). Updated podcasts to look forward to include Penn Jillette’s Free FM show Brian Dunning’s calmly intelligent Skeptoidshow, a new Glenn and Helen podcast from Instapundit and an old one from the ever patient Reginald Finley (The Infidel Guy).
I have a few outstanding to listen to from KCRW’s Left, Right and Centre and I’m sure there must be something too from Leo Laporte.
I gave up buying a newspaper several years ago.
So why am I paying for the BBC? I download one podcast - the invariably excellent In Our Time from Melvyn Bragg. I watch the 10 O’Clock news usually and some BBC 4 stuff, and Newsnight. The rest of the crap the BBC puts out, they can keep.
This is how it’ll be - choosing what to listen to or to watch, at your own convenience, with democratisation of media production offering low-cost niche interest shows and then one or two big, high traffic numbers. For those who care to make active choices that is, and for the rest, well, why must i pay for their Dancing On Ice nonsense?
