It was cool to pick up our local paper here in Cleveland, The Plain Dealer, to find a well written article on some of the podcasting activity going on locally here in Cleveland. And unlike so many of the articles that I have read via the web and otherwise, this one is a pretty good, and fresh read! They did the necessary homework, and produced an unexpectedly fine article.

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Late at night, when their five young children drift off to dreamland, Len and Nora Peralta steal away to their attic office for some quiet time and conversation. The Lakewood couple would like you to listen in.

Their attic isn't big enough to hold all of you, so the Peraltas have turned their midnight chats into podcasts.

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Cult filmmaker Wayne Alan Harold and Toby Radloff, immortalized as Harvey Pekar's nerdy friend in the movie "American Splendor," do an offbeat podcast called Lurid Lounge out of Harold's house in Ravenna.

Gaming enthusiasts Kevin and Brian Baird and friend Don Anderson produce the Video Game News Radio podcast.

From his apartment at Kent State University, Joshua Bauman podcasts his Darw1n.net ramblings.

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At least two local radio stations, WXTM FM/92.3 and WKSU FM/89.7, offer some programming as podcasts.

A podcast is basically a Web log, or blog, presented as audio rather than text. Some early adopters used the term audio blogging. The word "podcasting" first appeared 13 months ago in a London newspaper.

Pretty complete article. I don't think I saw Dave Winer mentioned for his part in the whole podcasting shebang, so I'll insert him properly here!

It was nice to finally read an article on podcasting, that was not only localized, but also did a pretty good job of researching and writing a good article, as opposed to regurgitating the usual suspects that have been name checked and written about in all of the other articles.

I found out about the article shortly after the interviews had been done, and also discovered Jawbone Radio around the same time. For all of the spotlight that they get in the article, it's well deserved - their show is definitely one of my favorites on my listening list.

Just in case you missed it, I've written about podcasting previously, and you can find those articles here, and also here.

And, if you're so inclined, and are a fan of heavy metal, visit my own podcast here!