news.com.com — A recent survey shows that 78 percent of those who have ever listened to a podcast are male. According to the article, this seems to be pattern following the adoption of other new technologies. There's female geeks out there, they just don't advertise it.
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solidstilesDec 28, 2005
"When females think of their iPod, they usually just look at it as a device for music. Most of them aren't geeky and experience the full functionality."Keyword, "Most". All of us geek girls need to stand up and represent! No digg for this because we have to comprise more than 22% of Podcasters!!
cheeseisgoodDec 28, 2005
Stereotypes are stupid. Polling can show whatever end result desired based on the sample taken. Podtrac works with MRI, whose website states the following:"The index to the Survey of the American Consumer is based on MRI's Survey of the American Consumer (adults 18+) twice yearly, in the spring and fall. MRI data are the basic media-planning currency for the majority of the media plans that are created each year by national advertisers and their agencies. The company's 26,000 in-home interviews each year represent the biggest survey of its kind. The MRI index of the Survey of the American Consumer provides a comparison of the population being measured to the overall US population. It is a statistic used by the entire advertising industry to determine a fit between the target of the advertising and the audience of a medium."Who are these people with time to succomb to "in-home interviews"? I am female and I subscribe to TWIT, NPR (Science Friday, Tech Review, WGBH Morning Stories, etc), Democracy Now and Business Week Podcasts. I have an ipod for two reasons: 1) all my music in one place 2) podcasts.
zleetd00dDec 28, 2005
Women are just slow. It took three months for my friend's mom to notice her favorite breakfast place was demolished.
kellenhellerDec 29, 2005
I have to listen to guys jerk off to the sound of their own voice 5x8 at work - why should I seek it out online? Podcasts are boring - it's far more efficient and less tiresome to scan for information via text than listen to some shmoe's verbal yankety-yank.
apparatusDec 29, 2005
I heart my iPod & podcasts.Listening to music at work gets boring after hours and hours (if you're at a desk all day as I am), and a slew of new 30-60min length podcasts on cool tech & political topics that come in weekly help to make the time fly by!