Newsnight Video Podcast

I was enjoying the overly brilliant sarcastic warblings of Jeremey Paxman while washing up this evening thanks to the brilliant Newsnight podcast that cuts all the drivel and gives me the basic facts.

It was a random, throwaway comment by Jeremey Paxman somewhere in the podcast that saw him suggest there would be a Newsnight video podcast from the BBC in the next few weeks.

I’ve also heard it mentioned on the BBC Grapevine that a number of video podcasts will be lining up for attention over the next few months - I’ll look into it more at a sensible hour - unless anyone else has more info on it?

The thing with video podcasts is, and it’s only a small thing, the average, usual, not overly relevant thing with video podcasts is this - I don’t have a video iPod.

Yes I know I can watch the video on my PC but that just becomes yet another piece of media fighting for my already limited time - audio podcasts allow me to listen on the move (while walking to work etc).

So until I get myself a Video iPod, which may be some time as I’ve only just got a nano and don’t want to get a video iPod until the next gen (full screen) comes out, until I get that full screen video iPod a video podcast is of little use.

Yes I’ll subscribe, yes I’ll watch when I’ve got time but it won’t be obsessivly like I do a decent audio podcast (that I can listen to while washing up, going round shops, walking to work or even in a dull meeting.

On a related but side note - Newsnight seems to be a real testbed for the BBC trying out various new things - it was one of the first to go on demand through the BBC News site, it was the first TV show to become a BBC Podcast, will be one of the first Video Podcasts for the BBC and apparently has started linking to Digg for discussion of their stories (the writer says in the Digg comments it’s because of the lack of a BBC Tech forum).

Personally I think it’s better the BBC links out to other sources for discussion than tries to foster a new community itself - you get much more intelligent (apparently) debate when you have an establish community passionate about that subject.

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