City of Quartz/City of Carbon

L.A. may be the source of everything cultural that makes our midwestern butter churn up rancid, but they do have the podcasting thing down. Par example, L.A. public radio station KCRW currently podcasts 22 of its locally-produced shows. No music shows however, due to the music industry's ongoing kerfuffle over copyright issues.

The station has that demystifying thing down too. Here's its explanation of just what-in-the-world-of-Dr. Alex Delaware a podcast is:

A podcast is a MP3 audio file that can be automatically downloaded to your personal computer and in turn transferred to an iPod or other MP3 player. In order to do this, a podcasting application is used to "add" a podcast. The program checks the site regularly and starts a download whenever it finds a new MP3 file. KCRW.com is offering downloadable MP3 podcasts of all its locally produced talk programs.

Maybe WSIU should podcast its locally-produced talk shows like ... and then there's ... well, there's always ... ok, how about ... oh, nevermind.