Podcasts...

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » May 2, 2006, 12:40 pm

I tried listening to a few of em and most wind up being painful/boring experiences.

Am I the only one that really dislike this information format?

cadalano · Post by **cadalano** » May 2, 2006, 12:53 pm

it sounds like you dislike the content more than the format

a microphone is up on the stage for everyone to use.. expect some sour acts and some winners

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » May 2, 2006, 12:53 pm

http://www.veeshanvault.org/forums/view ... hp?t=17589

Winnow lieks them!

cadalano · Post by **cadalano** » May 2, 2006, 1:00 pm

uh.. LOL. clearly you didnt go to college.

Winnow only listens to ZENcasts on his Zen Vision, you ignant oaf. iPods are for apes and fat girls

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » May 2, 2006, 1:04 pm

Read the thread title! That one doesn't say anything about how podcasts suck!

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » May 2, 2006, 1:12 pm

Boogahz wrote:

Read the thread title! That one doesn't say anything about how podcasts suck!

cadalano · Post by **cadalano** » May 2, 2006, 1:18 pm

the word podcasts in parenthesis suggests inferiority to the former

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » May 2, 2006, 1:37 pm

Zencasts rock, podcasts suck!

I'm liking these. Check my other thread for useful info on how to track down the more interesting ones. They probably sound shitty on an iPod is all. Get a Zen Vision:M and all of your dreams will come true.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » May 2, 2006, 1:57 pm

All the ones I've listened to were mp3's downloaded and listened from the PC. Podcast as I'm referring to it probably is more akin to an audio blog than anything else.

I don't own an MP3 player at all as I'm not a huge fan of music to begin with.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » May 2, 2006, 2:26 pm

Animalor wrote:All the ones I've listened to were mp3's downloaded and listened from the PC. Podcast as I'm referring to it probably is more akin to an audio blog than anything else.

I don't own an MP3 player at all as I'm not a huge fan of music to begin with.

So far, the ones I've enjoyed are weekly shows specific to an area of interest. I don't care for the ones where people just talk about themselves. Who cares. There are some well organized ones with weekly guests, several interesting stories that are on topic...and some great news casts for HDTV, Tech stories...several good comic casts (if you're into them).

As I said on my other thread, there are 18,000+ podcasts so using sites like Podcastalley help to narrow the search is a big help.

http://www.podcastalley.com/

I've found playing a pod/zencast in the background while playing online games works well sometimes. Using Winamp, MediaMonkey, or some other media player compatible with the media controls on the G15 keyboard helps as well so you can pause etc while in the game easily.

miir · Post by **miir** » May 2, 2006, 2:34 pm

I went to http://www.zencastalley.com/ and nothing came up.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » May 2, 2006, 2:44 pm

miir wrote:I went to http://www.zencastalley.com/ and nothing came up.

You can go here

http://www.zencast.com/

but I'd recommend podcast alley though as zencast is just another site for finding these things and some of the independant sites are better for that.

miir · Post by **miir** » May 2, 2006, 2:54 pm

Winnow wrote:
miir wrote:I went to http://www.zencastalley.com/ and nothing came up.
You can go here

http://www.zencast.com/

but I'd recommend podcast alley though as zencast is just another site for finding these things and some of the independant sites are better for that.

Zencast?
Podcast?

MAKE UP YOUR MIND!!!

I'm so confused...

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » May 2, 2006, 3:49 pm

miir wrote:I went to http://www.zencastalley.com/ and nothing came up.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » May 2, 2006, 4:34 pm

I went to http://www.ipodcastalley.com/ and some spyware came up!

podcast != ipodcast

It's a poor name choice yes but if you read the forums, the podcasters are switching over to mp3 radiply to get rid of the lame propretary Applecrap formats.

Niffoni · Post by **Niffoni** » May 2, 2006, 6:03 pm

I swear, Winnow's posts make me want to buy Apple products just out of spite. I think he's secretly working for them! Fess up!

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 14, 2007, 7:33 am

Here's some of the "Podcasts" I've been listening to. For those that like Tech News, Comics, Console News, Science, History, or Paranormal, you might find a few podcasts to check out on this list:

As Animalor mentioned, podcasts can range from retarded to very good. Most of the ones above tend to be on the good side although the geek factor can run extremely high. I listen to these mostly commuting back and forth from work and home but I also listen to them on my PC depending on what I'm doing.

iTunes (Apple sucks!) has excellent searching and handling of podcasts. Anyone can try these for free by downloading iTunes even if you don't have an iPod.