From the BBC , oh look I'm still getting value from my licence to own a TV in the UK , years after I left. So from one of the oldest MSM establishments we have one of the authors of the new media  discussing technology he'd like to see exist.

"In order to really work for podcasting, I think a new kind of player needs to have built-in wi-fi, and when you come within range of a signal, a light comes on and you can press a button to have it automatically connect to the Internet and download the latest episodes of shows you're subscribed to."

I seek out people trying to make their first podcasts and try to find out which steps are causing them problems and how one can solve it with software. ( very easy to solve in hardware, yeah hardware that's now mostly software but I digress 

It's my goal to make it a seamless  process  to talk ,  convert  and syndicate ,at least on a PC, in marginally more time than it takes to say it but there's still so many elements that are out of  our control.

 Forget the generation of content for the moment  which affects far fewer people than than the other side of the transaction.  The listening experience,  as Winer identifies ,requires  a new kind of device.   I've been using non iPods ( shock) to listen to podcasts for  a long time and other than my own steps to make this an easy process it's still an afterthought to most device makers , even those with names synonymous with podcasting are clunky.   I bet it may come from an unexpected source. Autos. Pull into your garage  / park outside and your car  joins the home network.  downloads it's data for  the day, any interesting pics you want to save from your journey?   (we'll all be Google local content generators one day)

Back to earth..

This is where I have to wonder why retailers that have musical interests like say Starbuck's  don't have kiosks for this purpose , hey you program a lot of their lives why not the music: * ,  that's my biggest fault with podcast players getting new material while away from home. The Moto Q is fast enough to DL podcasts but I'm not sure Verizon would have a sense of humor if people actually tried to use their data plans for my daily show load

Maybe bluetooth? There's got to be a model where people will provide the infrastructure to get your player filled back up with your playlist  ,maybe ad insertion in front of each show would work?

I don't like the bidirectional aspect suggested since there's nothing worse than off the cuff remarks that are full of background noise, long pauses and a myriad of other faults I'm not sticking near the headphones it's too personal a medium and the  kind of sound processing needed to make this palatable  is likely to make it more expensive than anyone would pay en masse.

 I listen to few unmolested podcasts and ,even then it's grudgingly because the content is unavailable otherwise,  the lack of care implied in the 2 way   ,can you hear me now cacophony that would make a future Twitter  indistinguishable from a fugue scares me.A nyone that went through CB radio when it was "hot" will understand  . We have had many  call in to direct to  podcast publishing ( failures ) and they've been cingularly awful.  His other ideas are quite fascinating but the idea of   instantaneous bidirectional media raises the horrors of true democracy that I'd rather like to avoid if American Idol is anything to go on.

BBC NEWS | Technology | The Tech Lab: Dave Winer

*just don't try another podcast, K thx Bai,