Could do better…

What’s the one thing that the UK Podcasters Association really needs to be able to demonstrate it can do well?

You’d be forgiven for answering ‘Podcasting’ :-)

The dire quality of the video podcasts currently on their home page sends a really poor message to the wider world. I’d seriously recommend taking them down – particularly since there are better versions of the same events elsewhere on the site.

Even though the other versions are slightly more watchable (because you can hear the audio) they still make what I think is a big mistake: they’re video. Why is that a mistake? Because the image doesn’t add enough to make the huge filesizes worth it.

It also means that I can’t take it in the car to listen while I’m doing something else. I’m not against video podcasting. On the contrary – I’m all for it when it’s presenting information that can’t be presented any better way but I’m not sure this is a good example of that.

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