Is the world spinning?

Calling information overload. I repeat, calling information overload.
I've just been reading an introduction to another "session" of class on how content on the Web continues to move from text to more and more audio/visual content. Apparently, the talking computers are coming...
Great. Bring 'em. As long as they don't speak unless spoken to.
I'm quite contrary to the idea of blogging. Maybe because I'm a man hidin' in my man cave watchin' football all day. So, of course, it then becomes a requirement of one of my courses. That ought to answer your question as to why I have a blog if I'm philosophically opposed to it. I wanted to title this blog, "Only Because I Have To", but didn't. Apparently, blogging is 'old hat' now and I'm late to the party (although I did bring a bottle of wine and a chocolate babka).
Besides podcasting we now have blogcasting, slidecasting and videocasting. I listened to some examples of blogcasting (which, through use of an app. such as Talkr, turns the text of your blog into audio, a.k.a your text read aloud by a programmed human voice) and I would prefer to hear the blogger's own voice and not a generic woman's voice. That is probably where it is headed anyway but this tool needs some work on replicating human speech. It's choppy and automated (for obvious reason). And videocasting? Isn't that what YouTube is for?
I've come up with another term to be applied here: "typecasting."