I admit, I’ve never been into podcasts. I usually turn off the sound on my computer (my home desktop doesn’t even have speakers) and I don’t own an MP3 player. But even an anti-geek like me swims into a trotline once in a while.

Lately I’ve been enjoying Webcomics Weekly, a podcast at Halfpixel.com featuring a group of reasonably successful internet cartoonists versus some kind of wobbly long-distance recording technology that’s probably billed as “Web 2.0″ or whatever the kids are calling it these days. The actual content is funny and informative, happily, with useful advice and some intriguing views into a more fruitful stratum of the webcomic tribe. The four cartoonists are entertaining characters, even when they fall on their faces. It’s rather like listening to a decent panel at a comic convention (an observation which doubtless has all you podcast-entrenched non-anti-geeks slapping your foreheads and muttering slang from Firefly or something). If your interest in webcomics extends into production and publishing, take a tip from this n00b geezer and hook up to the RSS feed. If your computer must squawk, let it squawk with meaning.