I'm not sure what I make of this podcast craze. I think I can sum it up best by saying that I quite like the idea of talking rubbish into a microphone and then posting it online for people to enjoy listening to, BUT thats just the problem noone would actually enjoy listening to it because they don't know me and i'd be talking rubbish. However people don't seem to think about this before creating them.The Shur'tugal website now has its own podcast MWH. For those of you who don't know, meaning pretty much everyone, Shur'tugal is a site to bring news etc. about the Inheritance Triology by Christopher Paolini which are books which I loved reading... i live half my life in a fantasy world even when i'm not reading fantasy books like this! Anyway my point is I decided to listen to the most recent podcast and I have to be honest I was annoyed because it was annoying (could potentially be because they are all 16, i'm sure I was annoying at 16), and vaguely interesting if I didn't already know all the stuff that they were talking about, although they did have a bit where Christopher Paolini himself spoke but again that was annoying because he just said two sentances in a radio voice. By five minutes in I just felt like a loser for even considering it in the first place... debate amongst yourselves.
So in conclusion Podcasts are not good, not fun, and not usually clever.
P.s. if you loved the Inheritance Triology books the movie Eragon is due for release at the end of this year.
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