Adam Curry, the godfather of podcasting, is featured in Wired.

Although podcasts don’t conform to any formula, their hosts do share one passion: circumventing the restrictions imposed on traditional broadcasting by industry and government. Partly in political protest and partly out of legal necessity, podcast music tends to favor songs that aren’t policed by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Podcasting is still so young, we don’t know what new stars will arise. The biggest podcaster of next year may not even have heard the word yet.