Well, there are certainly a lot of things to be said about Escape Pod, so lets get to it:
The good:
Mainly, I like Escape Pod because it introduces a lot of new science fiction to all it's listeners and even though I'm only one, I doubt that anyone would listen to Escape Pod if they didn't like it. Stephen does a considerable job of making the pods and even though he doesn't always read the stories himself, when he does, he manages to portray the characters as my mental image would show them to me, something that not even professionals like Scott Brick, Stephen Fry and others don't always manage. Whenever he has guests read the stories, he does a good job of picking them or they do a good job of living up to the quality of Escape Pod - or maybe it's a combination of both, which is far more likely.
By far, the quality of the audio in the recordings - whether it's Stephen or anyone else that does the narrating - is as superior as anyone could wish for, with a few exceptions.
And now to the website. It's quite nice and does an amazing job of looking non-too-small on widescreen monitors 19" and up, although I must admit that if I had the choice I, the design would have been different.
Oh, and it's on a Creative Common license which I love.
The bad:
Well, we all knew it had to come. The bad things about Escape Pod aren't many, but lets see if I can come with some constructive criticism so they have a chance of being changed. First off, the website. It's not entirely all too informative and when one has to go back and look up information on the website of a previous show, it's not always easily managed because of the structure of the website (it's length (pixel-wise) and lack of "jump to"-functions). But enough of that.
The pod itself there isn't much bad to say about, except that it (as of today) hasn't been updated since last year, which I suppose can be forgiven since there's been holidays in the way and all. Also, there have been a few technical glitches (the exceptions mentioned above) with reverbs (well, only one that I know of) gone bad and hickups in the encoding of the file itself (most of which have been fixed)
The ugly:
Well, I can't actually think of anything that should go here. I guess it could be reserved for a rant about the quality of some of the stories, yet I wont go there as judging the pod isn't really done by judging the stories that are read.
So, for any of you out there who wish to discuss my above opinions, feel free to do so. And if you don't wish to discuss it, don't.