I wish I had more time to really listen to my podcasts. I download and listen to them, but I'll be reading other news or email or working on other stuff at the same time, so I don't really get the full effect of listening to them. And listening to them in the car is a non-starter for a few reasons: my commute isn't long enough to listen to any podcast (~20mins), I don't have a way to hook up my iPod to my car, and I find it too distracting to try to drive and listen to podcasts at the same time.
Here's a list of what I listen to, in its entirety. It is rather long, but I do manage to listen to/watch it all in a week. I'm not including links since I don't know what Disqus would do with a post so full of links. You should be able to find any of these easily with Google.
Podcasts: * Buzz Out Loud (daily): Pretty much what you said, though I'd argue with the "hit-and-miss" argument. * FLOSS Weekly (weely): Hosted by Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte (w/ occasional co-hosting by Johno Bacon). Covers the world of free, open source (libre) software by interviewing leads and key contributors of open source projects, like DHH (Rails), Guido (Python), etc. * Hanselminutes (weekly): Scott Hanselman, currently of Microsoft, talks about programming and .NET * Security Now! (weekly): Hosted by Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte. Review of current security news and other pertinent topics, such as encryption and algorithms. * StackOverflow Podcast (weekly): Hosted by Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, creators of the Stack Overflow Trilogy and Stack Exchange. Topics include Stack Overflow and other random tech chatter. * this WEEK in TECH (weekly): Great podcast of tech news, even if it does tend to wander and talk about Twitter a lot. * Windows Weekly (weekly): Hosted by Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte. Windows and Microsoft news, with a little Apple thrown in for good measure.
Vidcasts: * Ask A Ninja (sporadic): I watch this one mainly for the humor, though I don't think it's as good as it used to be. * Film Riot (weekly): A fun look at the world of creating special effects. Very entertaining skits. * Hak.5 (weekly): Hardware and software hacking and security in a very light-hearted setting. * HD Nation (weekly): Hosted by Patrick Norton and Robert Herron. All you want to know about HD TVs, high def DVD players, and recent Blu-Ray releases. * Onion News Network (~semiweekly): Funny faux-news produced by The Onion. * System (on hiatus): Hosted by Patrick Norton and various co-hosts. Very builder-centric, with episodes including building your own battlebot, keg bot, and anti-gravity (magnetic) shoes. * Tekzilla (weekly): Hosted by Patrick Norton and Veronica Belmont. Tech news/user questions. * Tiki Bar TV (sporadic): Comedy in a tiki bar
jim
· 4 months ago
I've listened to Hanselminutes and it's pretty good, but lots of the time I have no clue what they're talking about. I need to check out StackOverflow again, tried it way back when the site was first announced but haven't since it went live.
HD Nation sounds good too, I do TekZilla now with Patrick Norton.
Brian Baggett
· 4 months ago
I have a similar problem: Really short commute, inability to listen during the day (meetings & the act of putting earphones on apparently summons folks to my desk), stuff to do at night, weekends that slip away too quickly.
jim
· 4 months ago
I work by myself at home. Like frohman said, sometimes I'm half paying attention but I listen anyway. We live 30 minutes from anything in Dallas that we do and 15 minutes from Waxahachie so I get those times to listen. I've probably got 5 BOLs on my phone that are partially listened too.
berial
· 4 months ago
I have never bought an I-pod so I never got into the podcast thing. If I tried to listen to it at work I'd just screw up what I was working on while not getting much benefit from the podcast. My commute is usually around 20-30 minutes so that would be about the only time I could listen to them. Funny how you can miss out on a whole area of technology or culture just by simple decisions.
Luke
· 4 months ago
I'm right with you on This American Life and Smodcast. Those are probably the only two that I make the time to listen through semi-regularly. I'm amazed that Kevin Smith really talks like the dialogue from his movies. Funny stuff.
Randydeluxe
· 4 months ago
Thank you very much for the kind words about The Instance!
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Here's a list of what I listen to, in its entirety. It is rather long, but I do manage to listen to/watch it all in a week. I'm not including links since I don't know what Disqus would do with a post so full of links. You should be able to find any of these easily with Google.
Podcasts:
* Buzz Out Loud (daily): Pretty much what you said, though I'd argue with the "hit-and-miss" argument.
* FLOSS Weekly (weely): Hosted by Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte (w/ occasional co-hosting by Johno Bacon). Covers the world of free, open source (libre) software by interviewing leads and key contributors of open source projects, like DHH (Rails), Guido (Python), etc.
* Hanselminutes (weekly): Scott Hanselman, currently of Microsoft, talks about programming and .NET
* Security Now! (weekly): Hosted by Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte. Review of current security news and other pertinent topics, such as encryption and algorithms.
* StackOverflow Podcast (weekly): Hosted by Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, creators of the Stack Overflow Trilogy and Stack Exchange. Topics include Stack Overflow and other random tech chatter.
* this WEEK in TECH (weekly): Great podcast of tech news, even if it does tend to wander and talk about Twitter a lot.
* Windows Weekly (weekly): Hosted by Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte. Windows and Microsoft news, with a little Apple thrown in for good measure.
Vidcasts:
* Ask A Ninja (sporadic): I watch this one mainly for the humor, though I don't think it's as good as it used to be.
* Film Riot (weekly): A fun look at the world of creating special effects. Very entertaining skits.
* Hak.5 (weekly): Hardware and software hacking and security in a very light-hearted setting.
* HD Nation (weekly): Hosted by Patrick Norton and Robert Herron. All you want to know about HD TVs, high def DVD players, and recent Blu-Ray releases.
* Onion News Network (~semiweekly): Funny faux-news produced by The Onion.
* System (on hiatus): Hosted by Patrick Norton and various co-hosts. Very builder-centric, with episodes including building your own battlebot, keg bot, and anti-gravity (magnetic) shoes.
* Tekzilla (weekly): Hosted by Patrick Norton and Veronica Belmont. Tech news/user questions.
* Tiki Bar TV (sporadic): Comedy in a tiki bar
HD Nation sounds good too, I do TekZilla now with Patrick Norton.