One of the podcasters that I met in the early days in New York City was Adam Varga. Adam's a real nice guy who's from Queens, NY which is where I'm from so I always took an interest in the welfare and progress of his project.

The project, which Adam sometimes avoided calling a podcast, is called Dailysonic. The concept of the show reminds me of NPR for the younger generation with an ensemble cast of thoughtful, socially conscious people who have no problem poking fun at themselves. The shows feature an eclectic mix of news, music, opinion and culture. And then there was this skit called (and I kid you not) Fuck You Robot. Real good stuff.

For a long time the team over at Dailysonic put out several shows per week. In tracking the shows that I aggregate through Podcast NYC I noticed they were coming out with less and less frequency. I finally saw the main page of their website which announces that they are down to one show per week due to the time and cost incurred in putting out the show.

I know that Adam had serious commercial aspirations for Dailysonic, and why not? Here is a group of people putting together a quality audio program with intelligent content. I know that they have a decent size audience but unfortunately they don't get the kind of hype and attention that some of the worst shows in podcasting seem to get. Those are the times we live in folks.

The content aside, Dailysonic has churned out some pretty interesting technology that builds their shows on the fly by stitching together mp3 files stored on their server. They've released the code under their Manglepod project. I recommend having a look if you want to perform some server side wizardry on your audio.

Adam is also giving back to the community via his Okay To Play information resource. Okay features comparison charts that podcasters can use to make decisions about products and services.

Even though Adam and Co. started this venture before they knew about podcasting, they certainly have contributed excellent content, excellent tools and great information to help podcasters.

Dailysonic won't be presented a podcast award this coming Friday night at the 2006 Podcast Awards but they sure do deserve one.