I had a quick listen to some of these podcasts. What struck me about most of them was that they were over-long. I do not have the time to listen to a 10-minute podcast, let alone a 50-minute one - and I'm sure the students won't either. I would prefer a 2-3 minute soundbite which was very focused on answering my question. If we have longer bits of info to get over, surely there are better ways? Am I missing the point here?
I thought the Glasgow Met podcast about Wikipedia was exactly right. Good use of background music, intereresting and natural voice speaking at a good pace, very focussed info about the pluses and minuses of Wikipedia. Focused, lively, and short.
Curtin's podcast was over-slow and too long. Speaker's voice was clearly reading from a script, with odd voice modulation - sounded false.
Talis - didn't even go there - 50 minutes? Forget it.
I tried the 'Learning to Speak: Creating a Library Podcast With a Unique Voice' from the higheredblogcon site. Problem here was that the speaker had such a boring flat voice I couldn't stick with it.
All these reasons may sound rather frivolous, but if we don't make podcasts attractive and easy to listen to, people won't bother with them.

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