Podcasts, what have they become?

Churbuck.com asks When was the last time you listened to a podcast?

I listen to podcasts almost every day, often 2 to 3 hours of podcasts. But they aren’t Gillmor Gang, Ricky Gervais, Thought Leaders (sorry, Tom) or any other information podcast. Instead I get free music through podcasts. Ministry of Sound, Queens of the Stone Age, Electronic Periodic etc.

It is a great way to get music to fill the background as you work.

As for information podcasts, I’ve never been a fan. Sitting through 45 minutes of some chap talking about Web 2.0. isn’t my cup of tea. I get that information on-screen and a lot faster.

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hellojed 1 year ago 1 point
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I agree, I'd never go out of my way to listen to an information podcast. The only spoken word podcasts I got into were the Ricky Gervais ones. Like you said I'd rather read the information rather than listen to it.

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Emmet 1 year ago 1 point
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Totally agree too. I'm all for citizen media and so on, but for some reason I have yet to come across an amateur podcast that does it for me. The fact that I can't "skim read" a random podcast that I come across, the way I might do with a random blog to decide if I might like it, means that I'm not inclined to invest my time checking it out.

That said, there are a couple of professionally produced "spoken" podcasts that I think are great and listen to when I have time: This American Life, RadioLab.org and Slate Magazine's podcasts are worth checking out.

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