Bullish, on-message technology podcasts that treat people like the latest gadget defeat the purpose of inviting people onto the show in the first place. Tech podcasts are a mutual admiration society I consider harmful. To paraphrase Sinéad O’Connor, success has made a failure of our home.
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Every happy Web developer is happy in the same way ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto
Marc Maron’s WTF compared with tech podcasts. I’m of several different minds about this, as I’m not sure that the desire to know, say, ‘[w]hat happened to the starter marriages of two high-profile men’ comes from a good place, at least for me. It’s _interesting_ yes, but also perhaps invasive? Would I want to talk about this? (Not that I’m the kind of success that would be on a tech podcast.)
