David Gilbert, a professor of communication at Marymount Manhattan College, who organised the MoMA commentaries, says his primary goal is to try to teach his students to stop being passive information consumers - whether through television, radio or an official audio guide - and to take more control, using as his model the guru of so-called remix culture, Lawrence Lessig, a professor at Stanford Law School.

And can we just try once again to make the point once more, having failed to get it across in our original comment that aerated those G'Day World chaps: we're not opposed to podcasting. We love podcasting, and we'd like to see a lot of institutions making better use of it.

What we're less than enthusiastic about is transposing indifferent podcasts to radio. The situation is made somewhat moot by the fact that, as we've been reporting here, enlightened radio stations are moving to podcasting.