Your favorite podcasts?

[Pierre.Suave]

Lets have them.

Rihgt now I subscribe to 3:

1) Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me

2) Prairie Home Companion, News From Lake Wobegon

3) WGBH Classical Performances

What are yours?

[Pierre.Suave]

1. I just added one more

someone told me that Car Talk has now got a podcast.

So I went to iTunes and downloaded it.

edit, I also just added NPRs Science Friday.

[Pierre.Suave]

2. Am I the only one that listens to podcasts?

?

[supernova]

3. Here's Mine:

NPR:

On The Media
This American Life


Local - The People's Pharmacy (natural healing and homeopathy, edit: also drug news and drug interactions, drug trials and research reviews)

Other - The Meditation Podcast. (Makes a nice cooldown contrast to my cardio workout. :-)

[mondo joe]

4. This American Life; The Official Lost Podcast.

Those are my only regulars.

[Duer 157099]

5. I'm an avid digital talk listener, and I still don't think I listen to podcasts

I somehow let that particular technology slip right by me -- when it seemed like I was asking someone to automatically download something to my computer, I figured I didn't want that -- is that, technically, what a podcast is?

Because I usually just go and download the mp3 of whatever I want to listen to, myself, so that there's no remote server just helping itself to my desktop thank you very much.

But what I recently discovered, was that audiobooks are a much more productive use of my listening time. There's actual substance, in-depth substance, instead of just little sound bites and interviews with authors *about* their books. And I've had enough of talk radio callers who just either keep saying the same thing, or keep repeating someone else's ignorance.

Audiobooks for me nowadays! Check your library, they've got tons more than ever before.

[supernova]

7. Podcasts are simply

shows that you can download to listen to on your own time. In the case of On the Media, I like that show a lot. But here, it's broadcast over the radio at 6AM on Sundays. I'm not awake then. So, I download the podcast and listen to it later when I have time.

Oh, and anybody with a mic on their computer can create and distribute their own podcasts about whatever topic they like.

[Duer 157099]

9. OK, well this might be just a technical question then

butI have always taken the term "podcast" to strictly mean a form of software that, when subscribed to, automatically (non-attended) downloads the media to your computer when it becomes available -- not something that you download yourself (because then that's just downloading an audio file, which I do all the time, and is my preferred method of acquiring same)

Maybe the term has gotten a bit muddied though

[Pierre.Suave]

10. A podcast is...

as best I can describe it is this:

It is a recording of a "show" that you can download either manually, or automatically via iTunes and listen to on your computer, or iPod, or stereo if you have the proper connection.

All my podcasts are NPR or APR shows/segments that I dont always remember to listen to when they are on the radio, so I listen to them when I am at the computer because I have iTunes set to automatically download them for me when a new one becomes available.

There are probably hundreds of thousands of podcasts available, on any topic you can imagine, some local some international and everywhere inbetween.

[OmahaBlueDog]

6. "Sex is Fun"

[Pierre.Suave]

11. Yes it is

I agree.

Where do you get this podcast, I am afraid to google those specific key words, lol.

[OmahaBlueDog]

12. OK, I'll try to explain this

It's easier to explain sex, actually

I found it when I installed some free podcast software called "Juice" and started checking all the top 50 losts for things I can download.

SIF is sponsored by a Minneapolis adult botuique called "The Smitten Kitten" www.smittenkittenonline.com. I believe, but I am not certain, that there is a link to the show at that site.

I'm fairly old to sex, but I'm a podcasting newbie.

[LeftyMom]

8. Skepticality and Vegan Freak Radio.

I've tried a bunch of others, but those are the only two I listen to regularly.

[Ptah]

13. Apology.101.podcast.edu

It's really hard to find.

[Pierre.Suave]

15. ...

[Ptah]

16. I wish you would apologize

...

[SKKY]

14. These are the podcasts I subscribe to..

1. Talk of the Nation
2. Wait, Wait, Don't tell me.
3. News and Notes
4. It's All Politics
5. Democracy Now
6. Slate
7. OLN Golf Tips with Joe Beck
8. Notes In Spanish

[littlebit]

17. I only have two

Wait, Wait don't tell me and Real Time

[varkam]

18. Easy question: WNYC's Radio Lab (Fantastic!)

Skeptic's Guide to the Universe
Car Talk