What podcasts do you subscribe to?
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Whats a podcast, another technology of the night? Heard mentioned, never bother to even investigate it.
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norm .net wrote:
Whats a podcast, another technology of the night?
It's basically a new trendy term for something that's been around for a long time. They're basically audio (and now sometimes video) shows that are available legally on the internet, usually in MP3 or some other downloadable (i.e. not streaming) format. They got named "podcasts" when people started listening to them on iPods. There is a TON of garbage out there; I started listening to real shows that are available elsewhere (ESPN, NPR), but TWiT is a good tech related podcast (though they spend a little too much time talking about podcasts). It's basically radio in downloadable MP3 format.
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This may have come up before, but I'm curious what podcasts people around here listen to. I generally listen to them while at work; it's actually less distracting than the cubicle chatter. Here's my list: This Week In Tech ESPN's Pardon The Interruption ESPN's Best of Mike & Mike (4 hour show edited down to its half hour of actual content) NPR Driveway Moments This American Life Penny Arcade (sporadic but hilarious)
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This may have come up before, but I'm curious what podcasts people around here listen to. I generally listen to them while at work; it's actually less distracting than the cubicle chatter. Here's my list: This Week In Tech ESPN's Pardon The Interruption ESPN's Best of Mike & Mike (4 hour show edited down to its half hour of actual content) NPR Driveway Moments This American Life Penny Arcade (sporadic but hilarious)
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This may have come up before, but I'm curious what podcasts people around here listen to. I generally listen to them while at work; it's actually less distracting than the cubicle chatter. Here's my list: This Week In Tech ESPN's Pardon The Interruption ESPN's Best of Mike & Mike (4 hour show edited down to its half hour of actual content) NPR Driveway Moments This American Life Penny Arcade (sporadic but hilarious)
Don't "subscribe" to any of 'em. But i do listen to This American Life now and then, To The Best of our Knowledge fairly regularly, and As it Happens. All of these are actually broadcast radio shows, so i catch the recordings when i miss them on-air.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
but I'm not even sure what a podcast is
I am sure I have no idea what a podcast is. Of course, if I ever want to find out there is Google :)
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
Of course, if I ever want to find out there is Google
Amen. Google is my only God. ;)
Cheers, Vikram.
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This may have come up before, but I'm curious what podcasts people around here listen to. I generally listen to them while at work; it's actually less distracting than the cubicle chatter. Here's my list: This Week In Tech ESPN's Pardon The Interruption ESPN's Best of Mike & Mike (4 hour show edited down to its half hour of actual content) NPR Driveway Moments This American Life Penny Arcade (sporadic but hilarious)
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This may have come up before, but I'm curious what podcasts people around here listen to. I generally listen to them while at work; it's actually less distracting than the cubicle chatter. Here's my list: This Week In Tech ESPN's Pardon The Interruption ESPN's Best of Mike & Mike (4 hour show edited down to its half hour of actual content) NPR Driveway Moments This American Life Penny Arcade (sporadic but hilarious)
Ask A Ninja[^] It's absolutely hilarious! :laugh:
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None. I use RSS heavily, but I'm not even sure what a podcast is. :~
Cheers, Vikram.
"Life isn't fair, and the world is full of unscrupulous characters. There are things worth fighting for, killing for and dying for, but it's a really small list. Chalk it up to experience, let it go, and move on to the next positive experience in your life." - Christopher Duncan.
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
I use RSS heavily, but I'm not even sure what a podcast is.
In simple terms: It's just MP3 file which has conversations (ex: radio programs without advertisements or blogger's own ramblings) instead of a song which can be played on any MP3 player. Because it started after iPod so the name originated from there. telecast (video and audio) -> podcast (audio only)
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This may have come up before, but I'm curious what podcasts people around here listen to. I generally listen to them while at work; it's actually less distracting than the cubicle chatter. Here's my list: This Week In Tech ESPN's Pardon The Interruption ESPN's Best of Mike & Mike (4 hour show edited down to its half hour of actual content) NPR Driveway Moments This American Life Penny Arcade (sporadic but hilarious)
Electronic Periodic[^]. To be honest I far prefer reading than listening to technical subject matter. I can skip ahead, copy and paste and more easily find what I am looking for. Code is a bitch to type out from a non-transcr-bed podcast :-D
regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
I use RSS heavily, but I'm not even sure what a podcast is.
In simple terms: It's just MP3 file which has conversations (ex: radio programs without advertisements or blogger's own ramblings) instead of a song which can be played on any MP3 player. Because it started after iPod so the name originated from there. telecast (video and audio) -> podcast (audio only)
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That is not really the reality. Many podcasts are full of music. What makes a podcast a podcast and not jsut a downloadable MP3 is distribution via RSS and its periodic nature. That episodes are MP3 chunks rather than a stream is what seperates it from radio on the net. My favourite podcast has no tech talk or hardly any other talking in it; Electronic Periodic[^].
regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.