{"id":25880,"date":"2010-12-22T10:25:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T10:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/12\/22\/podcasts-good-and-bad\/"},"modified":"2010-12-22T10:25:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T10:25:26","slug":"podcasts-good-and-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/22\/podcasts-good-and-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcasts good and bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a favorite podcast?  A podcast that you tried and hated?  An idea for a podcast that should exist but doesn&#8217;t? And, do you know of a rating system for podcasts (and should there be one)?  As a thought experiment, I propose a Podcast Quality index, or set of indexes.  To start, let me propose a set of criteria to evaluate the negatives of a multi-person podcast involving a primary host and a number of co-hosts or guests.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of minutes (or percentage of show) before the first interesting thing is said.<\/li>\n<li>Number of times the host indulges him or herself in displaying an information-free annoying affectation.<\/li>\n<li>Number of self indulgent affectations before the first interesting thing is said.<\/li>\n<li>Percent of times a guest or co-host begins to say something, is interrupted by host, and the guest or co-host never gets to make the point.<\/li>\n<li>Number of times the host re-indulges in the same &#8220;it was funny once&#8221; annoying affection during the show, apparently forgetting it had been done before.<\/li>\n<li>Number of times the host invalidates an interesting or important comment by a guest in the guest&#8217;s area of supreme expertise because of a self indulgent annoying affection\/absurd belief or fallacy. <\/li>\n<li>Number of times the host says something a guest or co-host just said as though the host never heard the guest or co-host say it. <\/li>\n<li>Misogyny bonus points: Number of times a male host steps on a female guest or co-host using any of the above moves divided by the number of time a male host similarly steps on a male guest or co-host.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a favorite podcast? A podcast that you tried and hated? An idea for a podcast that should exist but doesn&#8217;t? And, do you know of a rating system for podcasts (and should there be one)? As a thought experiment, I propose a Podcast Quality index, or set of indexes. To start, let &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/22\/podcasts-good-and-bad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Podcasts good and bad<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Jq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}