Podcasts, In Various States of 'Listened-to' and 'Unlistened-to'
It's time for another listing of the podcasts I listen to, in various states of 'listened-to' and 'unlistened-to'. In alphabetical order as listed in iTunes:
- And Did We Mention Our Disco, though it hasn't been updated since March.
- Best of the Web: really the best of the MetaFilter network, but features Matt Haughey and Jessamyn, who sometimes interview people they know through the community site. Recent highlight: an interview with a funeral home operator, who notes that whatever your funeral plans are, your family and friends will do something different.
- Canucks Outsider Podcast, probably slow going in the off-season.
- CBC Radio 3 Podcast, which features Canadian independent music. Not enough hiphop, but they're improving, and the production values are high. The feed I subscribed to includes New Music Canada Track of the Day. Not a big fan of the long intros to the songs, but I appreciate them for what they are, giving context to relative unknowns in Canada.
- I unsubscribed from the Chinesepod podcast, and they are going to a pay model. That said, I'm considering subscribing in the pay-the-monthly-fee sense.
- CITR Podcasts: Exquisite Corpse, essentially the Vancouver version of Seattle-based Radio Sonarchy; CITR Radio Zero; and The Jazz Show, which puts me to sleep sometimes. That's not a complaint.
- Fresh Lime Soda by Suw Charman and Stephanie Booth, who have not recorded, evidently, since May. They recently both traveled to America, though, so they're busy, surely have fodder for near-future podcasts.
- KEXP Presents Music That Matters, KEXP Presents Sonarchy Radio and KEXP Song of the Day, which has the artist and song title in the right fields, and don't introduce the track like the CBC Radio 3 Podcast New Music Canada Track of the Day.
- MTA New York City Transit in the News, found after a search for transit podcasts, and likely the model for a Toronto Transit Commission podcast (which are part of Joe Clark's requirements for the new TTC website). Production values are high here too, complete with sounds of the subway system if they're discussing diversions, and interviews with MTA workers explaining what's going on.
- Planetizen Podcast: a weekly news brief about cities and city planning, which sometimes features interviews. It's included in the Smart City with Carol Colletta podcast (see below), but when I listen that, I skip the news brief, after having listened to it on its own already.
- WorldBeatPlanet Podcast: I linked to it a year ago, and the site has a small but active community contributing to the site. I would suggest they rename the category they use for the podcast to "WorldBeat Planet Podcast" instead of "Podcast", since in the title and description in my iTunes both show "Podcast" only.
- RadioZoom by John (and often Rebecca) Bolwitt for a little bit of local perspective.
- Smart City with Carol Coletta, which I haven't listend to a lot of, but now I know how to pronounce "Worcester".
- Stage 8 @ the Vancouver Folk Music Festival: I'm not sure if I'm going to the Festival or not, but at least I get to hear a little bit about the artists and some of the behind-the-scenes goings on.
- The Talk Show: awful name and awful website, with low production values. John Gruber already acknowledged that already, though, so I'm giving it a chance.
- ThisCityRocks - Canadian Music Video Podcast, featuring Megan Cole.
- vanmega.com faux-podcast [feed], though I dunno, I've heard that "I'm a Flirt" R. Kelly song twice lately.
Compare that to the list I made in March, and you should be able to tell which ones I unsubscribed from.
Hi Richard, Just wanted to
Eileen — Sun, 2007-07-08 21:18Hi Richard,
Just wanted to clarify that ChinesePod's full mp3 podcast are still for FREE for anybody to grab and use and it will continue to be so in the future. You do not need to un-subscribe to your iTunes RSS feed at all. :-)
It took me a little while to
Richard — Sun, 2007-07-08 21:35It took me a little while to figure this out, but http://chinesepod.com/feed/public is the public feed you can subscribe to. That gets me all the episodes, which is fine, but my private feed at http://chinesepod.com/sillygwailo/lessons/feedset is forbidden because ... well, guess I haven't paid yet. :)
I am rolling out some summer
DaveO — Thu, 2007-07-12 15:47I am rolling out some summer goodness over at the Canucks Outsider including the BC Floorball episode and will send out some Longboard (skateboard) hockey action as well. The Giants Day in Vancouver episode featuring interviews with Pat Quinn, Don Hay, Milan Lucic and more is a beauty too eh. I also heard about an underwater hockey league too (really) which i will try to track down to document.
I also have a few (sorta stale) Olympic Outsider content i gotta edit - chats with Duff Gibson and Crispin Lipscomb are too good to leave unpublished.
I listened to the floorball
Richard — Thu, 2007-07-12 16:01I listened to the floorball podcast as soon as it came out, and I'm looking forward to the new stuff, Dave! I guess it's true: hockey never ends in Canada!
Thanks Richard for the props
Megan Cole — Fri, 2007-07-13 07:57Thanks Richard for the props on TCR... we're posting a video podcast every 3-4 weeks this year... are trying to get each episode sponsored now (always looking for sponsors! And editors sponsoring in kind by editing an episode is much needed and gets extra, special internet love!!). If we could afford to spend more time on this labour of love, we'd be blogging every day on all the CanCon wicked musak out there... Next up on the list: Great Lake Swimmers, post coming in early August. Cheers, meg.
Hey Richard, thanks for
Jason — Mon, 2007-07-16 21:53Hey Richard, thanks for spreading the word about Stage 8!
I would add a hearty
DaveO — Wed, 2007-08-01 11:01I would add a hearty recommendation for Cory Doctorow's Craphound podcast. His feed includes a weekly show with him catching up on his exploits and then reading from his or someone else's book - currently Bruce Sterling's critical tome "The Hacker Crackdown" plus bakes in his various interviews at colleges, universities, radioshows, writer groups, etc. He is wicked smart on a wide variety of topics from global economics to quantum physics.
If there is a Cory Doctorow fan club, i wouldn't join it, i'd make my own using the creative commons fan club license and then give away memberships (which do not require providing names or other identifying info) and then send the non-records to space in a Buckley's cold medicine powered time capsule.
At the risk of self-promotion, ... I am editing up some longer travelogue style Choogle on episodes from recent trips to London and NYC as well as last year's trip to Clayoquot Sound during the water shortage (finally). Longer than the usual "SeaBus-length" shows - designed for pleasant beachtime listening.
Also my spoken word literature show is kicking out some peace and war themed shows for you beats and peaceniks.
Now if i had an audio intern, ... i could even get a few Olympic Outsider and Urban Vancouver episodes out too ;-).