Vodcast vs. Podcast: Round 1

Steve Friess of Wired has posted an article chronicling the perhaps non-demise of podcasts due to the new video capabilities of the iPod 5G. Besides costing too much for the armchair podcaster to upgrade, Friess argues that an ability to be video-genic is required for the upgrade from audio to video.

Personally, there are plenty of places where I'd rather just have audio on my player and not video (read: during a car commute, while working out, and while hardware hacking). Secondly, yes, it does take a lot more effort to make a vodcast production not look like a bad home video. So no, I don't think vodcasting will kill podcasting, I believe they each have their own market.