Addicted to Podcasts http://addictedtopodcasts.com Its a podcast... about podcasts. en 2006 ncampbell@gmail.com Liberated Syndication - libsyn.com podcasts@libsyn.com (Liberated Syndication) Mon, 15 May 2006 14:51:00 GMT 180 No Make Your Own Podcast from Terrestrial Radio http://www.addictedtopodcasts.com/index.php?post_id=90704# So I've obviously gotten off to a slow start here.  That's okay, these things take time.

I want to talk about something a little different than podcasts today, but just as exciting.  I picked up the Griffin Radio Shark a couple weeks ago.  This is the coolest thing ever.  It's basically a Tivo for your radio.  It lets you pause, rewind and record terrestrial radio.  This is awesome when "This American Life" airs on a Friday night when I'm out doing Friday things.  It's like creating a podcast from the radio for you to listen to whenever you want.  Radio Shark gets three thumbs up from Podcast Addict.

]]> Off Topic Mon, 15 May 2006 14:51:00 GMT http://www.addictedtopodcasts.com/index.php?post_id=90704# No Apple Turned 30 http://www.addictedtopodcasts.com/index.php?post_id=77359# This Week in Tech.  Leo Laporte, formerly of ZDTV/TechTV, has a really fun conversation with Bill Fernandez, Andy Hertzfeld, Daniel Kottke, Randy Wiggington and Steve Wozniak about the early days of Apple Computers.]]> general Thu, 6 Apr 2006 19:14:00 GMT http://www.addictedtopodcasts.com/index.php?post_id=77359# No Catch Up http://www.addictedtopodcasts.com/index.php?post_id=72792#
I listened to several old C-SPAN Q&A (feed) casts including an interview with Adonal Foyle, founder of Democracy Matters, Glenn Reynolds, author of Instapundit.com and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. I listen to this show in my car and its an hour long so I get through about half of each episode on a trip to or from work. I couldn't wait to head home and finish off these episodes. Foyle, Reynolds and Olbermann were fun to listen to had some great stories. Its a good thing they're so comfortable carrying themselves through the interviews because host and C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb really just leads with a question and gets out of the way. For some reason Lamb kept pressuring Reynolds to reveal that his website is entirely funded by nobody as though its schocking that people can release content onto the web at virtually no cost. I've never watched the show as it airs and the audio podcast is a little new to me, but I'm sure this will now make it into my weekly regular rotation.

I also tried to get caught up on all the podcasts in the IT Conversations feed. They release so much content I'm going to have to be a little more selective about what I listen to. Basically these guys record sessions and keynotes from all kinds of IT related conferences and release different tech related series' including some public radio content. There's some really cool stuff on there and they release about a dozen or more a week ranging from 30 minutes to an hour as far as I can tell. Notable casts I listened to include, "Suketu Mehta - Bombay", "Europe's Coming Broadcast Flag", and "Explorers Club." I really learn alot of random stuff from this feed.

Mehta, author of "Maximum City" got me thinking outside my current existence. It was really something to try to envision his descriptions of Bombay a city of 18 million people where two thirds of the poorest people occupy five percent of the city. If you listen to one podcast this week, listen to that one.

In "Europe's Coming Broadcast Flag," I loved Cory Doctrow's assertions that Digital Rights Management doesn't work, doesn't protect copyrights and is based on the assumption that "you can build a safe so secure you can put it in the thief's living room." He echoed some belief's I've heard often lately about DRM treating consumers like criminals and in fact pushing users to turn to criminal measures in order to acquire content to use in the ways they wish or are entitled to.

Carolyn Porco's (Explorer's Club) enthusiasm as she presents images and data on Saturn and its moons collected by the Cassini probe is contagious in the audience of Pop!Tech and the listener . I just wish I could have seen the slides she presented as she spoke. The turn toward the spiritual signficance of space exploration and the Q & A at the the end draws the presentation closer to home.

I sampled a couple of new-to-me podcasts this week also. More on that later.]]> general Sun, 26 Mar 2006 03:26:00 GMT http://www.addictedtopodcasts.com/index.php?post_id=72792# No 1st Post http://www.addictedtopodcasts.com/index.php?post_id=72341# general Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:25:00 GMT http://www.addictedtopodcasts.com/index.php?post_id=72341# No