What's Your Podroll?
On the right, you can see a list of podcasts that I listen to. I also listen to a lot of KQED-FM and KPOO-FM here in San Francisco. KQED is the local giant NPR affiliate, KPOO is a community station that plays music... mostly "urban" music. I got my first MP3 player a couple months ago, a Rio Carbon, and I really enjoy it. I've been downloading MP3s since the pre-Napster days.
What podcasts do you listen to? Why do you like them? How did you find them?
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What podcasts do you listen to? Why do you like them? How did you find them?
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posted by Jesse Thorn at Thursday, March 23, 2006
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I don't listen to the radio at home, so many of the podcasts I listen to are public radio shows I've found while searching the iTunes podcast directory. Things like Left, Right & Center or NPR's Music and Pop Culture compilations fall into this category.
Of the others, I would call them, for lack of a better word, amateurish. By that I mean regular people talking about subjects they love, entertaining and informative. Shows like Five Hundy By Midnight, Coverville and The Frank Truth are among my favorites. And those helped provide a format for my own podcast, which is dedicated to the professional soccer team I support, and can be found at podcast.screaming-eagles.com.
Of course, TSOYA is kind of a cross between both of those categories.
You can find my podroll at my blog, wingsforwheels.blogspot.com.
i'm not a great fan of podcasts..too much waffle going on...just let me load up my mp3 with stashes of tracks i haven't heard for ages and i am as happy as if i had won a trip to a record store for a fortnight and could take home anything i fancied...yup let the music do the talking i say
I listen to them almost 95 % on the great love of my life -- my little Mp3 player. I fill her up every couple of days or so as I listen for at least 2-3 hours per day and presently I subscribe to about 50 podcasts. I keep looking for more good stuff and I some times 'edit' my preferences as I move on from ane to another.
My favs are Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything and Harry Shearer's le Show as well as the news and docs I download from the Australian ABC. So I'm a public radio listener that way.
I guess my favorite non radio generated podcasts are HansIsland done by a Dane living in Scotland and the Seanachai(esp now that Digital Flotsom is neglected by its owner).
It never crosses my mind to listen to music on my Mp3 player -- I need the space for the talk, chat, news and views I can get from my podcast menu.
I find my podcasts from all over by consciously doing preference searches and becuase I write a little bit about podcasting people send me recommendations.
I now use iTunes as my agggregator and while I hate almost everything about this program it is the only podcatcher that supplies a lot of detail about each podcast feed so that I can easily select which episode and which podcast I will download when I am choosing manually what I want to listen to.
you might give Dave Slusher's (of Evil Genius Chronicles fame) amigofish.com a spin.
You rate the podcasts you know about, and it does its damndest to suggest other shows that you'd probably like, which tyou can them rate.
The neat thing is that it provides you with different rss feeds to subscribe to, such as all the 5 star (the rating system works just like netflix) suggestions it has for you. So in theory, you can rate a bunch of stuff, then subscribe to your 5star feed and have anything it suggests automatically delivered to your podcatcher.
I agree with Countrygrrrl... too much WAFFLE! (actually, not really sure what that means)
Benjamin Walker is interesting, but I think he's really the poor man's Joe Frank.
Anon -- are there any good arts & culture or comedy programs you've heard from the ABC?
One good show that the CBC is offering for science types is Quirks & Quarks.
Benjamin Walker is literally the poor man's Joe Frank as in I'm poor and can't afford Joe Frank's subscription.
Actually, truth is I prefer Walker but love them both.
I listen to pretty much everything on TSOYA's podroll along with a bunch more of WFMU's stuff and the Off The Hook/Wall podcast from 2600.org. I also like teh art podcast Bad At Sports, the NPR stuff and Radio Zero.
All that and Andy Rooney's podcast... Hey, how new sincerity would you say Andy Rooney is?
Another vote for Quirks and Quarks. It's my favorite science-news cast, though I still listen to Science Friday and New Scientist podcasts. Craphound.com - sci-fi short stories by Cory Doctorow (found through an obscure little blog called BoingBoing). Skepticality. Pottercast and The Signal (Harry Potter and Firefly - I'm a geek). I found TSOYA through a link to the Python footage.
Cool, Matt. I'm glad someone found the show through the footage.
I read a story of Cory's for Escape Pod. I'll post the link.
I've done a lot of digging around for podcasts. There is a lot of crap out there. But here is what I download regularly that is not listed in the jesse thorn podroll:
The Dusty Show with Clay Pigeon and Seven Second Delay (WFMU)
Jim Dupree: Enthusiast (Somewhere in Canada)
Lynchland: The Liam Lynch Podcast (I dunno)
Infected by Martin Sargent (San Francisco I think)
Jean Shepherd podcast (from the 1960's and 70's)
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