Podcasting

No, I’m not podcasting myself. That would be quite ridiculous and I don’t think anyone wants to listen to me talk about something unless they’re around me in real life (or do they?).

For me podcasting is all about listening to others’ podcasts. I have quite a few that I listen to on my Nano (1G). Among them are:

• Toronto This Week – Since I take the bus most days now I don’t get a chance to listen to much radio so this keeps me up-to-date on the local CBC shows (Metro Morning, Here & Now and Ontario Today).


• The Best of Ideas – This is one of the best podcasts that I listen to; hour-long documentaries on intellectual subjects such as organic food, religion and philosophy and the culture of sleep.


• The Best of The Current – Anna Maria Tremonti has some really great interviews on topical themes plus The Voice makes an appearance on each podcast.


• The Best of As It Happens – You can’t go wrong with this show. They deliver some hard-hitting interviews and some rather goofy ones too so it’s bound to keep you entertained and informed.


• The Best of DNTO – Definitely Not The Opera is a very fun show (hosted by Sook-Yin Lee) that gives me my pop culture fix for the week.


• The Movie Blog: Audio Edition – I started reading The Movie Blog a few months ago and it gives me my movie news but it’s nice to hear some discussion on movies too and these guys know how to deliver: almost an hour-long talk about movie news of the week plus a mailbag edition most weeks as well. It’s all of the movie news you’d ever want to hear! It’s also one of the most popular podcasts around.
• CBC Radio Editor’s Choice – each day they take their favourite segment and bundle it up in podcast form. Some of the segments are repeated in the other podcasts that I listen to but it gives you a good sampling of what’s available (and great) on CBC radio.


• The Bloggers Hotstove – Canadian politics discussion in podcast form. I recently started downloading these but I haven’t listened to any yet but knowing that James Bow is involved means that it’s bound to be high quality.


• Money Blogger Podcast – a personal finance podcast where Scott interviews different personal finance bloggers about their blog, their philosophy about saving and what they think about the world of personal finance these days. I’ve found some very great personal finance blogs through this podcast. It’s worth it for the links alone.

So that’s what I’ve been listening to and it’s kept me in a fairly good mood traveling back and forth to work. The other day I forgot my iPod at work so I had to go home and back without anything but the people on the bus to entertain me. If you have any podcasts of your own that you listen to or think that I might be interested in, please let me know!

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