The resurrection of John Ciardi’s “On Words” radio show as an NPR Podcast is an example of a still largely untapped podcast market: shining light on the dark archive of older materials currently walled off and kept from us. Podcasters seem to be highly focused on being “new and now” while there is a ton of great stuff that I never had a chance to hear that I would love to have available in a format convenient to my own listening habits. Plus, we are early in the game and most current podcasts are crap– even the worst clunker in many of these shows’ archives would be ten times more interesting than the best of many of the current offerings…