I listened to the first installment this afternoon, and I have to say that local comedian Will Franken has a very promising comedy podcast. Alternating between lazy California social commentary to cultural obsession (perhaps too much, but he’s just starting out) to the crazed juxtaposition of a cheery guy working at a battered women clinic, Franken’s “Things We Did Before Reality” is a one-man sketch comedy that revives my closet hope that some podcasters out there might just revive old-style radio comedy for a new age of listeners.

VNUNet: “US internet users are more likely to download a podcast than try and find a partner online, a new study has revealed. According to research firm Nielsen//NetRatings, 9.2 million web users, nearly seven per cent of the online adult US population, recently downloaded an audio podcast.”

Pete Anderson gets into the podcasting game with Petecast. The debut episode finds Anderson getting all crazy and informative about Ben Hecht.

Jack Bogdanski is a madman.

So let me get this straight? I labor long and hard over a podcast, and Apple throws ads into it, debases what I’m trying to do and I don’t get to collect any kind of revenue? What an utterly terrible idea.