Launching a podcast or vlog seems to big thing to do here in the last few months of 2006. That's a screenshot from Technorati's new vlog on the right. Here are few notable vlog and podcast launches.
Scoble Show: Robert Scoble, the former Microsoft blogger, has a new podcast at his new company, Podtech.net. Scoble's introductory post can be read here.
Calacanis Cast: Jason Calacanis, the ceo and founder of Weblogs, Inc., is blogging about starting a podcast that will have 50 shows (50 hours of audio) per year.
Technorati Daily Vlog: Technorati has started a new vlog about what's new and hot on Technorati and the Web. The first vlog can be found here. They are using the Revver video sharing tool
AmigoFish, a podcast directory, blogs that there has been a burst in listings for knitting podcasts -- but it could just be that all the knitting podcasters found out about AmigoFish from a newsletter or blog post.
Some podcasts are even making money. There will be a market for podcasts and vlogs but they can't replace blogs. Reading is a much faster way to process information than slowly listening to someone talk about something on an audio podcast or a vlog. Text will always be the quickest way to learn something new -- at least until we find a way to inject nanobots directly into our brains.