I'm noticing a couple things that seem to separate videoblogging and podcasting as similar, yet different movements. And since I live in both camps, I'm curious if I'm the only one who has noticed these things.

Gender Gaps - I'll admit it can take some thinking to count the women involved in podcasting, and as the recent Podcast Expo just happened, it became known that 15% of the attendees were women. In my own personal experience, I'd have to think much much harder to identify women podcasters as opposed to women videobloggers.

In a recent tour of Current.tv's facility in San Francisco, the audience was split virtually down the middle of men and women alike. Equal parity in video? But not audio? Why?

Social Issues - Podcasting emulates radio in ways I don't think we want to admit. Good ol' fashioned competition. I mean, you take a look at people like Opie and Anthony--- they've got people they can't stand. And vice versa. We've possibly all heard Howard Stern dislike various DJs.... and this is being mirrored in podcasting. Believe me when I say that there are people who want to fucking bury Podshow. It's personal, it's cutthroat, and it raises the bar.

I'm not seeing this in videoblogging. Follow the same bath of a bigger media model: television or film-- when was the last time you heard of harsh competition between filmmakers....... ? Yeah, I'm not seeing it either And you?

There have been too many personal experiences I've had that revolve around these two issues for me to think it's a mere coincidence.