Here's my six word summary on Macej Ceglowski's manifesto:
Audioblogging is not of the web.
But listen for yourself. Brilliantly executed and I totally agree. I'm not as fanatic about videoblogging, as video streams have the potential to have embedded links, which I think is the major lose of audio posts. Still, I think an even smaller percentage of people will be technically and artistically talented enough to make videoblogging worthwhile. Then again, we were saying that about maintining Web sites roughly 5 years ago and a cohort of crafty hackers came up with the right set of tools to really make it work.
Let me say there is one upside to audioblogging, the same one that radio has. It's quite easy to tune out the speaker and get some hacking done. I've punched up exactly one of Dave Winer's audio posts, and by about a third of the way through it had become pleasant background noise.
Funny sidenote. When I first clicked the MP3 link, all I got was silence for whatever reason. Given that Ceglowski needed 4 minutes or so to get his point across, I thought it also a nice homage to John Cage. I'm not sure it wouldn't have been a more devastating critique although too subtle for most of the blogosphere.