#21 Glenn 2.0 is now subscribed to 3 podcasts and 1 smodcast

I don’t do podcasts. I tried one early this year but I just don’t really have the time to listen to them. I like the idea of them though. I used to listen to the Smodcast podcast that Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier do and they are great, and it’s entertaining and funny. But it goes for about an hour each time. I think I listened to the first 5 or so but then started falling behind so I stopped listening to it.

I didn’t really have an idea of how many podcasts were out there until this exercise when I searched around the three directories. I didn’t like yahoo. It seemed to just have mainly American results. The other two were quite good. I liked the look of the books and writing podcast I found using podcast.net but it seems to be out of date and the rss link doesn’t work. I found another good one with writing tips though which I subscribed to. I also found a travel one which I listened to for a bit and found quite interesting. It was a podcast by Rick Steves which I believe is from an American radio station, but it was good and interesting with some good travel tips. I subscribed to that one as well. I also decided to subscribe to Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier’s podcast but I couldn’t find it in podcast.net or podcastalley.com. I did find it using yahoo though. They call their podcast SModcast by using the first letters of each of their surnames. I highly recommend it to anyone that appreciates their style of humour, particularly if you like their dvd commentaries. They can be very offensive though.

I would have liked to create my own podcast for this exercise but there are two reasons that I can’t. I don’t have the equipment, and I don’t have anything interesting to say.

I now am subscribed to four very different podcasts, as you can see on the right. Hopefully I’ll get the chance to listen to them sometime.

Oh, I almost forgot. Podcasts in the library. I think it’s a great idea. Our library has done it once with a Chritos Tsiolkas session at our Northcote library but none have been done since then. I think it’s a great idea to record author talks and other interesting events that the library puts on. It is good to go back and listen to the talks again, and also for the people that missed it to have the chance to hear how it was. I think that by making these podcasts available on the website will ultimately increase the number of customers that will attend author talks in the future. It’s another great way of promoting what the library does.