Podcasts

February 7th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

No, this post is not an announcment of a new Jake & Tom Podcast. No, we haven’t quit doing them. Yes, we’re still friends. No, I don’t know when the next podcast will be.

For the past week, I have been searching for and compiling a select list of podcast subscriptions. Listening to and subscribing to podcasts is convenient because I can listen to them while sitting at my computer or on the go (via iPod), and I don’t have to be looking at anything as with television. They are several criteria a podcast must meet in order to be deemed worthy of a subscription by myself:

1. Good sound quality. Sounds obvious, but after listening to a Des Moines news podcast, I decided not to subscribe because the sound quality was so poor.

2. Quality over quantity. My 7am NPR news summary is 5 minutes long and is more valuable to me than an hour-long Democracy Now! podcast. I can listen to the former while I am getting dressed in the morning… the latter just takes up too much time.

3. Personalized. I’d rather listen to a Cubs podcast than a podcast about all of Major League Baseball, you dig?

With those criteria in mind, here are my current podcast subscriptions (links take you to iTunes Music Store):

Is anyone listening to an awesome podcast I might not know about? If so, please let me know. I’d love to find a couple of really awesome Christian ones but haven’t yet.

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Coverville is the only podcast I listen to with regularity. Of course, I’m kind of a cover song freak (once spent hours scouring Napster and Kazaa, searching by the word “cover”).

I should listen to more, but I don’t. Once I get my own non-shared-with-my-wife iPod, I will listen more.

Posted by Ryan Tow on February 10, 2006

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