Podcasts

[MrHat]

Since the radio out here in Baltimore make me want to kill myself, I'm thinking about taking some podcasts with me to soften the commute.  I was wondering if anyone already listens to some, what they enjoy and why.  Currently I have 1up and PA (haven't listened to either so I have no idea what I'm getting into).

[Viin]

The only podcast I've done is a video podcast called Ask A Ninja. It's pretty funny, but I don't know if there's an audio only version.

[pants]

Too lazy to google the links.

This Week in Tech - Really like this one.  As the name implies, a group of guys shooting the breeze about whats been happening in Computer-land for the past week.  Since they tend to be ex-radio guys and journalists, they put together a good show and know how to entertain over an audio medium.  Well worth it.
Ricky Gervais' podcast - Dunno if you can still get the free ones - they are hilarious and well worth grabbing.  Dont know if the for-pay ones are worth it tho.
.Net Rocks - Complete Microsoft fanboism - but inbetween the 'Microsoft rocks' rants there tend to be some useful stuff which leans towards .net land, but also some more general stuff (Offshoring, security, Test Driven Development - stuff like that).  Aimed at coders tho.
Australian ABC Radio National's The Science Show - Good for scientific stuff.

They're my regulars, plus some local political/comedy stuff.  Always interested in more podcasts tho, they are my new favourite way to pass the time commuting/exercising.

[Tebonas]

Well. most Podcasts I hear are German, but here are my english ones:

Adam Curry: Just because somebody will mention him sooner or later. He is my backup plan if I'm out of other podcasts. Only heard about 10 of them. He is supposed to be a Cult podcast everybody has to hear. Liked some, was bored by others.

Documentary Archive: BBC audio documentaries, about 20 minutes long each.

Real Time with Bill Maher: The audio (or parts of it, never saw it) of the HBO show. About an hour long.

Slacker Astronomy: Astronomy podcast. Their own description - Astronomy with bad humor instead of math. Around 10 minutes long

The Dawn and Drew Show: A little explicite humor has never hurt anybody. 30 minutes of two punks on a farm. Yeah, they make advertisments for condoms. Total sellouts, but at least they stand by it. If you don't want to think while you hear your podcast, its the perfect light hearing. Two people talking about unimportant shit.

The Science Show: Already mentioned, just reinforcing the notion that this is a good scientific podcast.

The Word Nerds: Three teachers talking about the English language. History of it, application, some obscure things I would have never known otherwise. Granted, could be because I am a foreign speaker and this would be boring or too much into detail to natives. Around 30 minutes

[Sky]

TWiT is awesome...and a nice kick to Comcast's nuts. Have you seen G4TV lately? The TWiT guys are the assets they lost (among others). It can get rambly, but it's a nice listen for monday morning in the office.

I've been listening to Penn Gillette's podcast lately, too.

That's about it for now. I was thinking about finding an NPR streaming feed, but then I thought "it's called a transistor radio". :)

[Hokers]

Podcasts of people talking:
Twit
Digg

Music
Coverville
Not Lame

[Yegolev]

My wife cannot get enough Ask A Ninja.  She says I should make my own podcast.  I have no idea how to do it, but if Bill Maher can figure it out, certainly it can't be rocket surgery.

[Azazel]

I listen to a bunch of the JJJ-Hack "youth current affairs" ones. Usually 5-10mins long, some of them are very entertaining, there's a shitload of them in their archive.

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/notes/

[MrHat]

Any suggestions on a good place to use to get the current ones when they come out?

Like some sort of queue or something? Something that isn't iTunes.

[Xanthippe]

I like and listen to  TWiT and Diggnation regularly.

My husband likes Coverville and Tiki Bar TV (that one's video, I think).  When I listen to music, it's usually Pandora (not a podcast; must have a computer with internet http://www.pandora.com/).

[Broughden]

Uh.....what are "podcasts"?

Is it a new name for internet radio?

[Trippy]

Uh.....what are "podcasts"?

Is it a new name for internet radio?

Kind of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting

[Broughden]

Uh.....what are "podcasts"?

Is it a new name for internet radio?

Kind of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting

So it has something to do with?  RSS or Atom syndication formats.
Never heard of either of these, but then I dont use apple products.

.mov .mpeg .wmv .mp3 etc etc Im familiar with but not what the article referenced. Is RSS some type of apple file format?
Also why wouldnt they use one of the other standards like .wmv or mp3 or something?


Also one other thing thoroughly confused me. On one hand the wiki article said it was connected with Apple's iPod (which has no over the air internet connection Im aware of and audio files must be saved to its hard drive), yet on the other hand the article said, "While the user is not "pulling" individual files from the Web, there is a strong "pull" aspect in that the receiver is free to subscribe to (or unsubscribe from) a vast array of channels."  So how is this connected with Apple's iPod if you arent actually saving the files to its hard drive for later listening?

Hmmm then it further goes on to say..."The downloaded episodes can then be played, replayed, or archived as with any other computer file." So obviously the user IS pulling the file from the net despite what the article said earlier. (which is why I also dont like wiki since its normally a bunch of confusing contradicting crap)

Bleh. Anyway it all seems connected to iTunes and iPods neither of which I use. I just download movies or music to my MPX220 smart phone or upload them to a file share and use my phones internet connection to access them so I dont have to have them hard stored on the memory. Microsoft Smartphone FTW!

[Tebonas]

No it isn't. iTunes is just the first program most people encountered Podcasts with, and the Ipod lets you synchronize with iTunes. Thats why Ipods and Podcasts are connected in many brains.

Podcasts are just Mp3 files, you can handle them like any other Mp3 file. Subscribing to a podcast just means you automatically get the newest editions of the subscribed podcast on your computer. You can download evey edition from most podcasts per hand and do whatever you like with them. There are enough other Podcasting programs out there so that you don't have to use iTunes. Try podcast.net for example to see what podcasts are out there, every program that can handle rss feeds can do the work from there.

I can't tell you any more about that though, I use iTunes. But if you don't want, you don't have to.

[Broughden]

No it isn't. iTunes is just the first program most people encountered Podcasts with, and the Ipod lets you synchronize with iTunes. Thats why Ipods and Podcasts are connected in many brains.

Podcasts are just Mp3 files, you can handle them like any other Mp3 file. Subscribing to a podcast just means you automatically get the newest editions of the subscribed podcast on your computer. You can download evey edition from most podcasts per hand and do whatever you like with them. There are enough other Podcasting programs out there so that you don't have to use iTunes. Try podcast.net for example to see what podcasts are out there, every program that can handle rss feeds can do the work from there.

I can't tell you any more about that though, I use iTunes. But if you don't want, you don't have to.

So in other words Wiki was once again about as useful as a virgin at a porn convention.  So in other words I was right the first time? Its just internet radio/multimedia broadcasts.
Thank you for the clarification.

[Tebonas]

Basically yes. Its an internet radio/multmedia broadcast straight to mp3-file. The rest ist just distribution channels.