As my readers know, I've never been much on blogs. Sure, there are 3 M of them out there, but it's a fair bet that there are more people writing them then there are reading them. In the immortal words of Scott Adams: Blogs exist to fill the important market niche of writing that is so dull that your eyes will burrow out of the back of your head to escape. People do read blogs, usually by accident, sometimes on a dare, but those readers are later mistaken for Mafia victims with what appears to be two holes in the back of their heads. So as you might expect, I've been scanning the web for stuff that is even crummier than blogs, because...well, I follow the dictum of P.T. Barnum. Anyway, yesterday I had that Eureka! moment as I discovered -- you guessed it -- weekly podcasts about blogging. No, I won't give you the URL because I don't want you to die after falling asleep driving while listening to this stuff on your iPod. That's how I show I care about your well-being. Ever listen to a telephone conversation between two bright 16 year olds? Pretty bad, dude, with the incomplete sentences and. So stupid, clueless, full of thoughts that barely qualify as ideas. Take that and mix it with a teenage IM conversation. To this level of intellectual achievement, mix in 10 years of internet writing experience. Take away any hint of polish and production values and presto! BlogTalk Radio. That's what it's really called. And then there's the special topic podcasts, such as "Affiliate Thing" and "Vlogger" (for video bloggers). Now, nobody's paying anything to get access to this "content," but you'd expect that the purveyors of the "show" (who are consultants and experts in their field) would be interested in projecting finesse beyond what you find on a bad college radio station. But they aren't. Something about the practice of blogging seems to have taken sloppiness to a high art form. Not that the experts revere sloppiness, they just revel in it. Whatever idea pops into your head... if it's interesting enough to the author that they don't fall asleep writing it, it's probably interesting enough to your audience. So these blog-podcasts feature audio with no more quality or coherence than a distracted phone call. Editing with several seconds of dead air. Neglecting to cut out remarks that were supposed to be hidden by theme music like, "I wish I could watch American Idol." Wow, if the author of the blogcast would rather be watching recycled Ted Mack than being on their own show, what does this tell you about how interesting the blogcast's audience is?