Visit the podcasting area inside iTunes right now and you will see an invasion of small Indie podcasters are climbing the rankings fast. Listeners are swinging back to podcasting roots.

See most of top ten right now are these Indie podcasts:

1) Skepticality
2) Dave’s iPaq Podcast
6) Mugglecast
9) Dawn and Drew Show
10) Podcast411
11) The Tech Teachers
16) Geek News Central

I think we are seeing a swing back to grassroots podcasts, listeners seem to be more interested in getting unique content and not just repurposed broadcast content. Yet, I do think some of the major media content will still be popular in podcasting. They will need to eventuality produce unique content for podcasts and not just repurpose existing broadcast content.

Yet, some are saying that many podcasters are gaming the rankings in iTunes. See details on this controversy.