How to find good podcasts

July 16, 2006 By

Lifehacker has the skinny on how to find good podcasts.

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  • http://jean.wordpress.com/ jean

    Robert,
    Why does one need a podcast?

    http://www.irin.co.uk

  • http://jean.wordpress.com/ jean

    Robert,
    Why does one need a podcast?

    http://www.irin.co.uk

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ Robert Scoble

    Cause the average iPod user has gigs of free space!

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ Robert Scoble

    Cause the average iPod user has gigs of free space!

  • http://jean.wordpress.com/ jean

    but robert the ipod has nothing to do with podcast, or has it, cannot podcast be heard on other devices.

  • http://jean.wordpress.com/ jean

    but robert the ipod has nothing to do with podcast, or has it, cannot podcast be heard on other devices.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ Robert Scoble

    Jean: of course! But it’s easier to talk about the iPod. Everyone gets what an iPod is and what it does.

    My cell phone has a gig of free space. I gotta find more stuff to put on it.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ Robert Scoble

    Jean: of course! But it’s easier to talk about the iPod. Everyone gets what an iPod is and what it does.

    My cell phone has a gig of free space. I gotta find more stuff to put on it.

  • Christopher Coulter

    “Gigs of free space” is not gonna win the day, just cause it’s there, doesn’t follow that it’s somehow automatically going to be filled — such is a quite common economic fallacy, aptly termed ‘Hallucinogenic Optimism’, as capacity potential doesn’t ever equal a market.

    Compelling quality content, that is somehow relevant to said individual — relevant enough to overcome the seriously difficult interia required to seek such media out…is the only hope (assuming there is any hope at all).

    A better answer to “why does one need a podcast?” would be…

    Because all sorts of interesting and detailed subjects, mainly focusing on specialized markets are wholly under-served by the current media infrastructure (or words to that effect, leaning less lawyerese).

    The media are generalists, find about said indiviual’s particular niche interests, and match some podcast/vlog to that, it’s really going to be case by case, as micro-broadcasting, but always will be.

  • Christopher Coulter

    “Gigs of free space” is not gonna win the day, just cause it’s there, doesn’t follow that it’s somehow automatically going to be filled — such is a quite common economic fallacy, aptly termed ‘Hallucinogenic Optimism’, as capacity potential doesn’t ever equal a market.

    Compelling quality content, that is somehow relevant to said individual — relevant enough to overcome the seriously difficult interia required to seek such media out…is the only hope (assuming there is any hope at all).

    A better answer to “why does one need a podcast?” would be…

    Because all sorts of interesting and detailed subjects, mainly focusing on specialized markets are wholly under-served by the current media infrastructure (or words to that effect, leaning less lawyerese).

    The media are generalists, find about said indiviual’s particular niche interests, and match some podcast/vlog to that, it’s really going to be case by case, as micro-broadcasting, but always will be.

  • http://neatonly.blogspot.com/ Tom

    thepodcastnetwork.com is a good one.

  • http://neatonly.blogspot.com Tom

    thepodcastnetwork.com is a good one.

  • http://podcastingtricks.wordpress.com/ Scott Bourne

    While I don’t think it’s ready for prime time, I like the new (and not much talked about) Pluggd site (http://www.pluggd.com/). It looks like it has a clean, easy-to-use interface that could attract users other than early-adopters. And that’s something podcasting needs to accomplish if it wants to get deeper acceptance.

  • http://podcastingtricks.wordpress.com/ Scott Bourne

    While I don’t think it’s ready for prime time, I like the new (and not much talked about) Pluggd site (http://www.pluggd.com/). It looks like it has a clean, easy-to-use interface that could attract users other than early-adopters. And that’s something podcasting needs to accomplish if it wants to get deeper acceptance.

  • http://www.gbarnett.org/ Granville Barnett

    For anyone who uses ASP.NET then a great podcast called the ASP.NET Podacast (www.aspnetpodcast.com) is really great and humerous too oddly.

    Dunno how I came across it but its great…the only podcast I really download all the time.

  • http://www.gbarnett.org Granville Barnett

    For anyone who uses ASP.NET then a great podcast called the ASP.NET Podacast (www.aspnetpodcast.com) is really great and humerous too oddly.

    Dunno how I came across it but its great…the only podcast I really download all the time.

  • http://blogs.opml.org/tommorris Tom Morris

    jean: people need podcasts like they need videogames, music and movies – they’re not a necessity but they are nice to have.

  • http://blogs.opml.org/tommorris Tom Morris

    jean: people need podcasts like they need videogames, music and movies – they’re not a necessity but they are nice to have.