Dave Slusher over at the Evil Genius Chronicles talked about a topic that is near and dear to some of my own thinking on why I am podcasting and blogging: "provide a service to my audience."

It is in his show "EGC Clambake Episode for March 3, 2005" were he talks about the value of the connection to his readers vice just the shear numbers found in server logs and rankings on sites.

What he sees looking at his audience via personal emails and comments on his weblog is much more important to him than numbers, and how it is very hard to categorize these intangible but very relevant information.

He points out in a great example the "influence" factor of the IT Conversation’s Gillmor Gang show via narrowcast to the "right, perfect, and best case" audience.

Great deep thinking work Dave … I have many of the very same feelings for my own readers and listeners.

Here is the actual part of his podcast (just under 6 minutes long) that I grabbed via Audacity … Download egc-snippet-from-20050303.mp3 (2741.4K) .