Podcasts vs. Blogging

Benefits of blogging:

• You can read faster than you can listen
• Less personal than listening to someone's voice
• You don't need a microphone
• You can add details with fonts, colors, word size, links and pictures
• It is easier to find something in the text because audio cannot yet be effectively searched
  

Benefits of podcasting:

• You can download the item to a portable playing device, such as an iPod
• You can record for a very long time, so you aren't constrained by how much space is being taken up with text
• Saves recordings of your voice for future generations
• You can hear personality and meaning behind the voice. It is easier to tell if someone is making a joke or being sarcastic by their tone and inflections.
  

Interestingly, I decided to put a VoiceThread up on my personal blog and I found that the only people who actually wanted to "talk back" to me were members of my immediate family. Others either left a comment (in the blog, not the VoiceThread) or steered well clear.