Try Some Podcasts…
There’s good news and bad news for podcasting. The good news is that there are a great number of listeners of podcasts and the numbers are always growing. The bad news: no one you know is listening to any podcasts. Except me. And you know me.
For those not in the ‘know’, a podcast is like a talk show or news program in a portable format (like an mp3) that you can listen to when you want, usually on the player of your choice.
Podcasts are one of my favorite ways to keep up with technology-related news. I thought maybe I should give out some propers and maybe grow the number of people who actually listen to podcasts.
I listen to two podcasts mainly and they are very similar. Both are roundtable-type discussions, which I enjoy, simply for the multi-sided nature of these discussions. The first of the two is ‘Elite Tech News’. This is a good group, especially Steve Hodson, who is a grumpy old man. He’s pretty much how I see me in another 15 years. He’s into tech, keeps up, but doesn’t drink the Kool-Aid a lot of these tech guys seem to live on. I dig that.
The other podcast I love is ‘This Week In Tech’. Back before the crapfest channel known as G4 existed, it was TechTV. And it was awesome. The best show was ‘The Screen Savers’ with Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, etc. It was my favorite hour of TV everyday. So, when TechTV self-destructed, Leo built an empire of podcasts, the flagship of which is ‘This Week In Tech’. The grumpy old man on this panel is John C. Dvorak, and yes, he’s my favorite.
So, if you want good podcasts to listen to, you’ve got no excuse now. Go!
August 16th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Patrick thanks muchly for the kind words. I also just wanted to let you know that I am a strong believer in the podcast format and am always experiemtning with different formats via my blog. Also along with the Elite Tech News podcast I also do one other regular weekly podcast with Cyndy Aleo-Carreira and Duncan Riley called Things You Can’t Say About The Internet.
I think that while some would say that we are experiencing a resurgence of podcasting I think it is more of a state where people are catching up with the idea of podcast plus the fact that podcasters are realizing that it doesn’t have to be a audio version of their text blogs but rather a different presentation of ideas and the such in a myuch more personal appraoch especially if they utilize services like Talksho which allows for audience participation.
BTW … subscribe to the blog - keep up the good work.
Steven Hodsons last blog post…From the Pipeline – 8.15.08