Just Finished Reading: My Cantopop Nights: A Memoir in Songs

Once upon a time, I was puzzled by people who were asking what is a podcast. All along, I thought it was pretty clear: just go read the specs and see if that thing conforms to it. After a while, I realized these people are talking about podcasts as a genre, not a technology. This is not about RSS and enclosures. This is not about following and downloading. It is about the style of an audio program, about people talking to each other with microphones. And that is why there are people who claimed they have been making podcasts in the 1990s, before podcasts were invented. That's why there are people who insisted that videos cannot be podcasts, even though I have been watching podcasts such as Sesame Street's Word on the Street and NBC Nightly News on my iPod as podcasts in the 2000s. These people are wrong, obviously. :-) Sometimes, we get angry for very nerdy reasons. What is Cantopop, then? Is it songs from Hong Kong? Or perhaps also songs in the Cantonese language? Maybe it can be…