Feb 10 2008

“Be there when we air” vs. “Watch it when you care”

Posted by Jim as Mobility, Portable Media, iPod

I’ve been subscribing to podcasts for the past 6 months and to tell you frankly, they have become part of my daily to do’s. I used to follow cable TV schedules so I can watch specific segments of CNN and BBC news, but now, I just hit the refresh button on iTunes and watch them when I want to. It has been very easy to follow what’s happening with the rest of the world thru podcasts, like those from CNN’s “Anderson Cooper’s 360″ and “In case you missed it”.

I think I have about 30+ podcast subscriptions I download on my Dell Inspiron 8600 (yes I still have a Dell Inspiron 8600, but that’s another story!). Varied podcasts from Larry King Live, CNET TV’s, Mahalo Daily, Geekbrief TV, the Typical Mac User, Macbreak, 3 PHotoshop User’s… oh and one that I hope would have more updates… Switchfoot’s podcast.

My wife has a few on her macbook too, but most of them are about cooking (!), most from onnetworks.com. Some of those I know would be “Stump the Chef”, “Food Science” a couple more cooking podcasts, “Elen Degeneres’ in 60 seconds”, “Traveling thru America”, “Joyce Meyer’s Enjoying Everyday Life”, some Do It Yourself podcasts and others.

Do we ever find the time to view all of these? Well, no, but when we do, we watch!

I think podcasts will play a serious threat to regular and even cable TV. Some of them are growing to be really good information sources. Some consider podcasts as a serious channel with it’s own life, take CNN’s podcasts for example, boy they have been putting in a lot specially with their coverage of the US Elections. You see, they realize that people don’t have the luxury of time to be “there” when they air important events. CNN is a pioneering company realizing the new trend of audience behavior. And they’re succeeding.

Will I subscribe to more podcasts? Yes, definitely. If you have interesting ones you feel I’d enjoy, post a comment! Hey I’ll review that podcast on future episodes too.

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19 Responses

J.C. Hutchins
10|Feb|2008

I found the Gadzooki blog about a week ago, and love what you guys are doing here. Fan for life.

Excellent call to action, Jim. I’ll go into shameless promotion mode and mention my serialized podcast audiobook, “7th Son.” 7th Son is a techno-thriller about human cloning. It’s the most popular podcast novel series in history.

Learn more at my site, and check out my easy-peasy “how to subscribe” video at my Podcasting Primer page: http://tinyurl.com/2eajjb

Thanks for the podcasting evangelism!
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10|Feb|2008

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nlowell
10|Feb|2008

Podcasts are a great way to bump out of the mainstream media morass. Mysef, I don’t watch many video podcasts, but I haven’t listened to the *radio* in my car in months. Having some kinda of portable player really makes the difference in terms of making podcasting — well — portable. (No, you don’t need an ipod. iRiver, Creative, and many others are available for less than $100 - many under $50.)

I’m partial to serialized fiction. Some of my faves include:

Playing for Keeps by Mur Lafferty

Space Casey by Christiana Ellis

Murder at Avedon Hill by PG Holyfield

The Rookie by Scott Sigler

There’s lots of other titles at Podiobooks.com if you’re into audiobooks.

There are a lot of podcast directories about as well. Podcast Pickle has an interesting directory as does Podcast Alley. The directories are really useful for finding particular kinds, styles, and genres of podcasts.

Hope you find these useful. See you on the Funway!

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Scott Breakall
10|Feb|2008

The Command Line Podcast (http://thecommandline.net/) is one that I really enjoy. It’s got great coverage of security and “your rights online” issues, and it’s very consistently put out bi-weekly. (BTW, I’m here via http://twitter.com/stweetteam!)
Keith Burtis
10|Feb|2008

Hey Jim, I have a bunch of podcsats to view or listen to. I am a professional wood turner and cabinetmaker. This allows me many many hours with my Ipod, but if I was watching video Podcasts all the time I’d cut my fingers off, so that being said, most of mine are audio.

http://www.epicfu.com, a mashup of Tech, sports, news, you name it Zadi Diaz is easy on the eyes and amazingly smart.

http://www.jchutchins.net The best SCi-Fi Trilogy ever written in podcast format. Amazing stuff.

http://www.JaffeJuice.com, Joseph Jaffe is a digital marketing professional. Very good!!

http://www.marketingovercoffee.com, Produced by John Wall and Christopher Penn, they discuss the marketing landscape online and off.

http://www.hayhouse.com, many podcasts for the personal development field.

http://www.twistimage.com, another favorite, the “Six Pixels of Separation Podcast” Put out weekly on digital marketing, apps, and general thoughts on the landscape of web 2.0.

If you ever need more don’t hesitate to give me a shout out…visit my blog or whatever. KeithBurtis on Twitter. This post is being sent courtesy of the Stweet Team!!
Kimi
10|Feb|2008

I have some great podcasts but please keep in mind a few of them are more adult in nature. I’ll seperate the adult ones from the ones that aren’t.

Tale Chasing - Urban Fantasy Writer’s Podcast
http://www.talechasing.com

I should be writing - Writer’s Podcast
http://shouldwrite.blogspot.com/

Adult:
Power In Practice - Practical Application of living in a BDSM Structure
http://www.powerinpractice.com

PolyWeekly - Living in a Poly Relationship
http://polyweekly.com/

The New Slave Project - Learning how to deal with BDSM relationships
http://www.thenewslaveproject.com
Amy Bowen
10|Feb|2008

Hi there! I listen to podcasts for approximately 12 hours per week while doing my part-time job of resleeving old records at a library. Here’s what I listen to.

First of all, I’m known among podcasters as “The Deadpan Ambassador” because I’m a community member and frequent content contributor at Jack Mangan’s Deadpan Podcast (www.jackmangan.com). It’s about… well, it’s about the community members sharing ideas, jokes, and creative projects with each other. We have an open-door policy over there, so any listener can contribute audio content for the podcast.

I’m also a huge fan of the works of podcasting fantasy author Tee Morris. His current podcast, MOREVI: Remastered, is at http://www.teemorris.com/morevipodcast. It’s an epic fantasy novel involving “pirates, ninjas, and one hell of a good time” (quoting the promo), and I’m enjoying the heck out of it.

Playing for Keeps (www.playingforkeepsnovel.com) is another novel being released as a podcast. It’s almost done, but you can still go back and listen to all the episodes in order. Playing for Keeps is the story of a group of friends with minor, useless superpowers who find themselves caught up in a battle between superheroes and supervillains… neither of whom seem to be all that heroic.

Mur Lafferty, the author of Playing for Keeps, is also the host of I Should Be Writing (http://isbw.murlafferty.com/), the podcast for wanna-be fiction writers, by a wanna-be fiction writer.

Finally, last year, a band named Beatnik Turtle wrote and recorded 365 free songs, which are still available in the podcast feed at http://www.thesongoftheday.com.

This post is courtesy of the Stweet Team (http://twitter.com/stweetteam)!
Winnie
10|Feb|2008

I love Lost, so I listen to quite a few Lost podcasts. I listen to Jay and Jack (www.jayandjack.com) and The Transmission (www.hawaiiup.com). I listen to almost all the GSPN podcasts (www.gspn.tv). They do quite a few podcasts about tv shows, but also daily life or new Mac users.

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Laurel Meadows
10|Feb|2008

Hey Jim!
I too have let podcasts take over my life. As a postal worker, processing mail, I listen to podcasts for over 8 hours a day!! Because of this, I need a variety of ‘casts, and I really prefer ones which are 30 min or less, to keep the pace up. I also tend to prefer the “homemade” podcasts, where “real” people like me seem to be having fun podcasting. It gives me hope for my future podcast. Here are some I’ve found in the last 3 years that I’ve been listening to podcasts:

Podcastpaul and This Week in London are a great mix of music, chat and the occasional holiday in a caravan. Love these two guys, and hope to meet them and their families someday.

Comedy
Bell’s In the Batfry with John Bell http://www.thebatfry.com This is great family friendly skit comedy. Listen from the beginning of show One.

Podiobooks

Playing For Keeps- by Mur Lafferty (@mightymur on Twitter) A wonderfully read tale of a Third Waver trying to lead a “normal” life in a world filled with super heros and villains. http://www.playingforkeepsnovel.com/

Billibub Baddings and the Singing Sword - by Tee Morris http://www.teemorris.com, author of Podcasting for Dummies.

Music

The Tartanpodcast with Mark Hunter. http://www.tartanpodcast.libsyn.com Within the Tartanpodcast feed are the Sleepy Sunday shows, Mellow Monday shows and some spotlight shows. Great independent bands from Scotland such as Finniston, Amplifico and Hollow Horse, just to name a few. Mark also has some “talking” podcasts under his “Mark My Words,” http://www.tartanstories.com . Mark has moved on to doing podcasts for the Association for International Cancer Research, which are very informative and cover a different type of cancer each podcast.

Three from Leith with Grant Mason…

Talk
Old Time Radio Shows
Adventures of Inspector Maigret
Old Time Radio Detectives
Old Time Radio Mysteries

Videos
I just discovered the Ask a Ninja podcast which is brilliant, clever and short… must be seen to be understood.

If this is too long, please feel free to edit it as you’d like.
Kimi
10|Feb|2008

OOps I forgot to mention that my suggestions were courtesy of http://twitter.com/stweetteam

Sorry. If the suggestions aren’t acceptable I understand.
Jes
10|Feb|2008

Jim, I’ve been listening to podcasts since August ‘05 and I must tell you I’ve have to either buy a raid drive or my 60gigs is doomed. I like to listen to only ‘Clean’ shows, but sometimes a little filth gets in and no ‘Explicit’ tag is revealed.

http://www.CommandN.tv oh, the ULTIMATE tech news weekly vidcast with the lovely Amber MacArthur and CN crew. If it’s on the internet or for your computer, or gadget you’ll find THE BEST news and links of downloads. Season 1 is available check iTunes.

http://www.Twit.tv & http://www.pixelcorps.tv These two partners of Leo Laporte and Alex Lindsay produce some of the best weekly show’s around. Net@Nite with, that’s right, Amber MacArthur, features the moments realized or unrealized hotest web 2.+ service and/or happenings. The Brain on this woman is stupendous. This week in Tech, just to laugh at John C. Dvorak be cranky. MacBreak Weekly, oh to listen to Merlin Mann, Andy Ihnatko and Scott Bourne’s opines. Fabulous!

http://Betty.libsyn.com “Betty In the Sky With a Suitcase”! The laughter only begins at 7,000 feet in the sky. A monthly podcast of hilarious events from flight attendants, captains and especially: passengers.

http://www.labrats.tv Lab Rats is a totally different tech show. With actual gadgets and visual step-by-step how-to’s. I watch for Sean, Boo and Biff, as well as the info. Great high quality vid-show!

http://letstalkorganizingpodcast.blogspot.com/ The link says it all. A quick sensible listen to help me run a quick dash around the apartment or office. You will see a trend soon.

http://www.macobserver.com Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab. These guys were in to tech back from the late 80’s as kids! Words can not express the cornucopia of information they possess and they have a call in number for listener questions. Don’t be fooled by the title.

http://www.manager-tools.com/ Are you employed? Maybe you’re a business Manager, or not and just want to do well at work. You MUST listen to Mark & Mike. They tell you from first hand experience how to help you get ahead in business and life. Download the archives from ‘05-06 from the site or you’ll miss the best information on this planet.

http://www.notmuch.com/ Wisconsin PR & PRI: Michael Feldman’s Whad’Ya Know? Formerly a daily show, now appears weekly. Need to laugh? We all do! I wish there was an archive link. Hundreds of shows to download.

http://www.bodyfloat.com Self Massage Techniques this one I just started watching as my best friend attends school for reflexology. Yet I can’t rely that I’ll ever receive one free full body deep tissue massage as with my occupational therapy required. So I’m off to try it on myself. I started with the Foot Massage episode with immediate results during the massage. Lets just say I can now eat a little Beef with less problems. Next the Immune System Booster

http://www.43folders.com, Merlin D. Mann’s: 43folders (explicit) & http://www.davidco.com, David Allen Company Podcast (Getting Things Done) & http://www.procrastination.ca iProcrastinate Podcast Here’s productivity help out the WAZOO! Merlin & David have partnered to help you with your dirty little badget of honor and iProcrastinate sweeps into trash bin.

http://www.ItIsWritten.com A Better Way to Live with Shawn Boonstra An audio or vidcast on practical ways to live better according to the word of G-D.

http://www.AmazingFacts.org with Doug Batchelor. Just the facts. Just the facts of Biblical history according to G-Ds Word. I love this show!

Finally, http://www.topofthepods.com, Top of The Pods & Top of the Pods Gold (the archives) Jon and Rob are two hosts that can help you split your pants or help you wet them. Here’s there description, but don’t be fooled. They try to keep it clean, but a bug gets through from time to time. “Top ten list show - in every episode the UK Podcast Top Of The Pods brings you a top 10 list. With themes from the obscure to the d__n right bandwagon popular, England’s own Jon and Rob bring you top tens from listeners around the world. ”

I’ve watched and listened much, and I’ve deleted much cause I, too, only have two eyes and ears and have had to clear away the clutter. There’s more but here are the names of the casts just search in iTunes, Bikescape, Get It Done Guy’s Quick & Dirty Tip and Mr. Manners’ Quick & Dirty Tips.

Curious to see what other show’s others are watching or I’ve missed all together.

Enjoy!
Jes
10|Feb|2008

Jim, I’ve been listening to podcasts since August ‘05 and I must tell you I’ve have to either buy a raid drive or my 60gigs is doomed. I like to listen to only ‘Clean’ shows, but sometimes a little filth gets in and no ‘Explicit’ tag is revealed.

http://www.CommandN.tv oh, the ULTIMATE tech news weekly vidcast with the lovely Amber MacArthur and CN crew. If it’s on the internet or for your computer, or gadget you’ll find THE BEST news and links of downloads. Season 1 is available check iTunes.

http://www.Twit.tv & http://www.pixelcorps.tv These two partners of Leo Laporte and Alex Lindsay produce some of the best weekly show’s around. Net@Nite with, that’s right, Amber MacArthur, features the moments realized or unrealized hotest web 2.+ service and/or happenings. The Brain on this woman is stupendous. This week in Tech, just to laugh at John C. Dvorak be cranky. MacBreak Weekly, oh to listen to Merlin Mann, Andy Ihnatko and Scott Bourne’s opines. Fabulous!

http://Betty.libsyn.com “Betty In the Sky With a Suitcase”! The laughter only begins at 7,000 feet in the sky. A monthly podcast of hilarious events from flight attendants, captains and especially: passengers.

http://www.labrats.tv Lab Rats is a totally different tech show. With actual gadgets and visual step-by-step how-to’s. I watch for Sean, Boo and Biff, as well as the info. Great high quality vid-show!

http://letstalkorganizingpodcast.blogspot.com/ The link says it all. A quick sensible listen to help me run a quick dash around the apartment or office. You will see a trend soon.

http://www.macobserver.com Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab. These guys were in to tech back from the late 80’s as kids! Words can not express the cornucopia of information they possess and they have a call in number for listener questions. Don’t be fooled by the title.

http://www.manager-tools.com/ Are you employed? Maybe you’re a business Manager, or not and just want to do well at work. You MUST listen to Mark & Mike. They tell you from first hand experience how to help you get ahead in business and life. Download the archives from ‘05-06 from the site or you’ll miss the best information on this planet.

http://www.notmuch.com/ Wisconsin PR & PRI: Michael Feldman’s Whad’Ya Know? Formerly a daily show, now appears weekly. Need to laugh? We all do! I wish there was an archive link. Hundreds of shows to download.

http://www.bodyfloat.com Self Massage Techniques this one I just started watching as my best friend attends school for reflexology. Yet I can’t rely that I’ll ever receive one free full body deep tissue massage as with my occupational therapy required. So I’m off to try it on myself. I started with the Foot Massage episode with immediate results during the massage. Lets just say I can now eat a little Beef with less problems. Next the Immune System Booster

http://www.43folders.com, Merlin D. Mann’s: 43folders (explicit) & http://www.davidco.com, David Allen Company Podcast (Getting Things Done) & http://www.procrastination.ca iProcrastinate Podcast Here’s productivity help out the WAZOO! Merlin & David have partnered to help you with your dirty little badget of honor and iProcrastinate sweeps into trash bin.

http://www.ItIsWritten.com A Better Way to Live with Shawn Boonstra An audio or vidcast on practical ways to live better according to the word of G-D.

http://www.AmazingFacts.org with Doug Batchelor. Just the facts. Just the facts of Biblical history according to G-Ds Word. I love this show!

Finally, http://www.topofthepods.com, Top of The Pods & Top of the Pods Gold (the archives) Jon and Rob are two hosts that can help you split your pants or help you wet them. Here’s there description, but don’t be fooled. They try to keep it clean, but a bug gets through from time to time. “Top ten list show - in every episode the UK Podcast Top Of The Pods brings you a top 10 list. With themes from the obscure to the d__n right bandwagon popular, England’s own Jon and Rob bring you top tens from listeners around the world. ”

I’ve watched and listened much, and I’ve deleted much cause I, too, only have two eyes and ears and have had to clear away the clutter. There’s more but here are the names of the casts just search in iTunes, Bikescape, Get It Done Guy’s Quick & Dirty Tip and Mr. Manners’ Quick & Dirty Tips.

Curious to see what other show’s others are watching or I’ve missed all together.

Enjoy!

This post is being sent courtesy of the Stweet Team!!
Jessika
10|Feb|2008

I listen to podcasts in my car. They’re great for the drives to and from work.

Two weekly ones I never miss:

Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe Great group discussing current news and issues related to skepticism and pseudo-science.

Savage Love The out loud version of Dan Savage’s sex advice colum

I also subscribe to The Onion Radio News I usually save up a month or so of them, since they’re only about a min each, then listen to them all at once.

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Marci
10|Feb|2008

This Week in Science is a great weekly show - http://www.twis.org

NPR/APR has Wait, Wait - Don’t Tell Me which is a topical quiz show, and it’s LOL-funny. And This American Life is always good radio.

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Mr Butterscotch
10|Feb|2008

Ah, nothing like a good vodcast to catch up with what’s been going on in the world of tech and gadgets…
Kristina
11|Feb|2008

I love podcasts. I’m probably subscribed to over 70 podcasts. Some of my favorites are Geek Fu Morning Show, The Mustash Rangers, Sonic Society, Buffy Between the Lines, Morevi: Remastered, Podcasting for Dummies, 10th Wonder Podcast, The Signal, and Playing for Keeps. And if you want a really good video podcast, check out Stranger Things.

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Laurel (aka Tiggr)
12|Feb|2008

Hey Jim!
I too have let podcasts take over my life. As a postal worker, processing mail, I listen to podcasts for over 8 hours a day!! Because of this, I need a variety of ‘casts, and I really prefer ones which are 30 min or less, to keep the pace up. I also tend to prefer the “homemade” podcasts, where “real” people like me seem to be having fun podcasting. It gives me hope for my future podcast. Here are some I’ve found in the last 3 years that I’ve been listening to podcasts:

Podcastpaul and This Week in London are a great mix of music, friendly chat and the occasional holiday in a caravan. Paul Nicholls and Paul Parkinson are mates in real life, and have both had their families involved in some of their shows. Janet Parkinson (Geek Girl on The Flashing 12 Podcast) is so genuine, you’d like them to move in next door. Love these guys, and hope to meet them and their families someday.
Comedy
Bell’s In the Batfry with John Bell http://www.thebatfry.com This is great family friendly skit comedy. Listen from the beginning of show One.

Podiobooks

Playing For Keeps- by Mur Lafferty (@mightymur on Twitter) A wonderfully read tale of a Third Waver trying to lead a “normal” life in a world filled with super heros and villains. http://www.playingforkeepsnovel.com/

Billibub Baddings and the Singing Sword - by Tee Morris http://www.teemorris.com, author of Podcasting for Dummies.

Music

The Tartanpodcast with Mark Hunter. http://www.tartanpodcast.libsyn.com Within the Tartanpodcast feed are the Sleepy Sunday shows, Mellow Monday shows and some spotlight shows. Great independent bands from Scotland such as Finniston, Amplifico and Hollow Horse, just to name a few. Mark also has some “talking” podcasts under his “Mark My Words,” http://www.tartanstories.com . Mark has moved on to doing podcasts for the Association for International Cancer Research, which are very informative and cover a different type of cancer each podcast.

Three from Leith with Grant Mason…

Talk
Old Time Radio Shows
Adventures of Inspector Maigret
Old Time Radio Detectives
Old Time Radio Mysteries

Videos
I just discovered the Ask a Ninja podcast which is brilliant, clever and short… must be seen to be understood.
Mike Wills
13|Feb|2008

I won’t toot my own horn here (rock and pop music podcast :-P), but if you like SciFi you could check out Slice of SciFi.

This post is being sent courtesy of http://twitter.com/stweetteam!!
Betty
10|Apr|2008

Hi, from Betty I produce the podcast Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase and I am constantly amazed that people listen and link to my site!!! I decided I should thank those fans who tell others about my show…you people rock!!!

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