Short podcasts are great for those moments at work where I’m waiting for Lotus notes to stop crashing or driving my rather short commute home.

The difficulty with short podcasts is the time that goes into finding stuff that is interesting vs. the time it takes to listen to it seems non-proportional. I’m sure there is great stuff out there that I just don’t want to spend an hour searching for only to get a few minutes of content a week.

I think a meta-feed would be really cool — perhaps a ‘productivity channel’ which has podcasts from 43 Folders and other sites. I subscribed to Ryan and Jen’s Lost podcast (the one the article refers to), and it was great, but HUGE. Although I listened to it every week, I didn’t listen to ALL of it every week.

Frankly, I’d rather subscribe to the “Lost channel” that has some smaller segments from lots of different people, then maybe select the best shows on that ‘channel’ to listen to. I think a higher level of aggregation before hitting the user would be beneficial to all.

I could do a segment every week or two on TiVo for a channel :-) But anything more than that, and I think I’d get a ‘thumbs down’.