Hopefully the advantages of podcasts go without saying, but what about the disadvantages?
In particular, what are the disadvantages of long podcasts?
Well, if you're like me and your job / learning requires you to quickly scan and extract information from many many sources per day then you'll quickly find the limitation of podcasts:
- They are a slow source of information dissemination, and in particular
- They are serial information sources
Unlike surfing the web and Googling, with a podcast
you have to listen to the entire content! You can't quickly jump to the relevant bits and extract that information. This means you may have to waste 2 or 3 minutes listening to a podcast that contained no relevant / useful information. For busy researchers and learners - where time is at a premium - that's an issue.
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