Podcasting
Now that iTunes 4.9 offers podcasting support in such a painless fashion, I figured I would actually listen to some podcasts.
Just like the original Macintosh + LaserWriter enabled people that had no writing skills to easily publish newsletters and other publications with utter garbage for content, podcasting seems to have done the same for audio.
There is a lot of crap out there. Whatever. The fact that people can easily put this stuff together and dump it upon the masses is just plain cool.
In the brief amount of time I have given to exploring podcasts, I have discovered some great content. Some of the content was stuff I already knew about, but podcasting offers an alternative delivery mechanism that is considerably more convenient.
In particular, WeFunk Radio offers a podcast “from the archives (you can subscribe to this link)”. It is updated once a day with a different 2 hour show from the extensive WeFunk archives. WeFunk is a radio show out of Canada that focuses on Funk and Hip-Hop. Mostly amazing stuff, though it occasionally goes too “rap” for my tastes.
Unfortunately, you can’t subscribe to the current show via iTunes because of the lack of support for BitTorrent based downloads. Bug filed.
The Hypnotic Music DJ Sets podcast is an excellent collection of techno-electronic-dance-club music. Ranges from vocal trance to excellent NYC house music.
That is all I’m aware of, at the moment. Admittedly, I haven’t looked around much. If anyone has suggestions for non-crap podcasts, please leave a comment or send me an email.
July 2nd, 2005 at 2:33 pm
I’m digging “Coverville”. It’s a guy that puts together shows every couple days full of cover songs, most of which I’ve never heard before:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73329622
July 8th, 2005 at 1:22 pm
If you’re looking for a podcast client with BitTorrent, you may want to take a peek at iPodderX. It’s my client of choice. I like what Apple is trying to do with iTunes, but there’s so many features that it lacks.
October 19th, 2005 at 4:30 pm
Indeed, WeFunk is the best podcast I’ve come across. You may have not been aware that they added a non-BitTorrent based podcast of the current show (64kbps). Funky goodness.