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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 4:53 pm
Since I've started listening to podcasts during my daily treks around the state...I don't listen to much radio any more...I'm interested in what are some good podcasts to listen to out there. I suscribe to alot of tech podcasts, mainly from this site: http://www.twit.tv/ but I also listen to: The ForceCast The 4th Age Podcast The KickAssMysticNinjas Anyway, these are just a few. I know you can find a podcast for just about anything...and I'm always interested in finding something new and fun.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 5:10 pm
A lot of mine are running/fitness related because I listen to them as I walk around town every morning. PhedippidationsThoughts, opinions, observations and rambling diatribes composed during distance long runs. Fitness Rocks is a weekly discussion with Monte Ladner, M.D. and the Fitness Rocks team of experts on topics of health, fitness, weight loss, stress management, diet, exercise, and other topics related to good health and weight management I also LOVE LOVE LOVE my BBC namely the Now Show and the Newsquiz (both comedy shows that centre around the news of the week). On hiatus until Sept. 26th but you could probably still download the older ones. CBC Radio carries comedy shows (Vinyl Cafe, Comedy Factory), news shows, science (Quirks and Quarks) I also recently started listening to a Science show from Australia Science on Mornings:Join Zan Rowe and her scientific guests, with a bunch of curious triple j listeners for a weekly injection of science, myth-bashing and answers! Science on Mornings is published every Thursday. There are others but these are my faves.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 5:28 pm
Great thread! I'll probably try listening to a few of these.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 5:29 pm
Am I the only person who doesn't know what a podcast is?
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 5:35 pm
I listen to bizarre ones, but I guess I'll throw one in for the sake of the thread. I enjoy Jason and Grant from "Ghost Hunters" when they do their podcast. http://beyondreality.planetparanormal.com/
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 5:42 pm
Serate, I just learned about podcasts in the past year, so yes, you must be the only person who doesn't know what a podcast is.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 5:43 pm
Serate.. I will probably get this completely wrong but a podcast is just a downloadable audio clip. Most radio stations now-a-days will allow you to download a past episode... that would be called a podcast. There are also private individuals/groups who put together little *shows* that are available to download over the internet. You can listen to them over your computer or transfer them to a MP3 player. No matter what your interests are, you can probably find a podcast for it (comedy, fiction, science, fitness, occult, stamp-collecting, SETI, etc). I am sure someone can come up with a more accurate definition but in layman's terms I think this explains it well enough.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 5:45 pm
I went to Wikipedia and I don't think I did too bad. LOLOL A podcast is a series of digital-media files, which are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and computers. The term podcast, like broadcast, can refer either to the series of content itself or to the method by which it is syndicated; the latter is also called podcasting. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster. The term is a blend of the words "iPod" and "broadcast",[1] the Apple iPod being the brand of portable media player for which the first podcasting scripts were developed (see history of podcasting). Such scripts allow podcasts to be automatically transferred to a mobile device after they are downloaded.[2] As more devices other than iPods became able to synchronize with podcast feeds, the term was redefined by some parties as an abbreviation for the backronym "Personal On Demand broadCASTING".[3][4][5] Though podcasters' web sites may also offer direct download or streaming of their content, a podcast is distinguished from other digital media formats by its ability to be syndicated, subscribed to, and downloaded automatically when new content is added, using an aggregator or feed reader capable of reading feed formats such as RSS or Atom.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 5:57 pm
Am I the only one who doesn't know what, or how to use RSS feeds?
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 6:00 pm
No Mak1 you are not. Add that to my list too!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 8:22 pm
I love using Notes in Spanish (from Itunes) for my Spanish classes. They have beginning, intermediate and advanced. Grammar Girl is great too.
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 8:41 pm
I just subscribed to Grammar Girl the other day. I haven't listened to any of them, yet...but I could use more help with my grammar.
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Friday, September 05, 2008 - 3:28 pm
Here's a podcast for those into nostalgia: Stuck in the 80's My wife subscribes to it.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Friday, September 05, 2008 - 3:40 pm
60-second Psych and 60-second Science http://www.sciam.com/podcast/
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