I thought I would introduce myself to the gotZune community in my first gotZune post by posting a question.
What podcasts do you subscribe to?
I've never really explored the world of podcasting, so when I heard people were ecstatic that the new Zune software and firmware supported podcasting, I thought I would have to give it a try, and surprisingly, I found myself liking some of the podcasts that I found.
Currently you can use the Zune cards to find people with similar music tastes and find more songs that you might like. Unfortunately, the Zune cards don't yet support doing the same thing with podcasts, (although, I imagine eventually they will), so I thought it might be interesting to find out what the readers here are subscribed to and see if any of us can find some new cool podcasts.
These are a few podcasts that I subscribe to which I really enjoy:
TWIT - "This Week In Tech" - Did you ever watch TechTV? Many of the people from that channel sit down and discuss the latest tech news of the week. It's great to hear Leo Laporte again. It would be great if I could find a video podcast that had Leo.
Best of YouTube - Like podcasting, I never really explored YouTube very much. I've never really had the time. Wouldn't it be great if someone picked the best and funniest things on YouTube and made a video podcast of it? Guess what, they do. It's only a weekly podcast, but it's great.
National Geographic Video Shorts - I really love the video podcasts and what's better than national geographic video?! National Geographic has some of the best educational and entertaining video and photography so it's great to watch a few short clips so you can feel yourself getting smarter.
Battlestar Gallactica - I bet a high percentage of Zune owners watch the new Battlestar Gallactica show. The producer of the show, Ronald D Moore, has a podcast after each episode discussing the behind the scenes of a week's episode. This past week, I had the great fortune of going to a Zune sponsored advanced screening of some pre-season episodes of Battlestar Galactica, so I can't wait until the producer creates a podcast about these episodes so I can find out what the creative team were thinking when they made these episodes.
So what are some of your subscribed podcasts?
18 Responses for "So what Podcasts are you subscribed to?"
MobilitySite Minute
Dora the Explorer (thanks susan)
and that’s it right now
I am constantly adding and removing podcasts (other than Mobility Site Minute and Refrederator) I also have a local tv station’s daily podcast (local news and weather)
ESPN radio http://espnradio.espn.go.com/espnradio/podcast/index has a large selection of available podcasts….and I change them with the sports seasons
Fox TV has foxcasts http://www.fox.com/foxcast/ for keeping up with favorite shows
TV Guide has a weekly one http://www.tvguide.com/News-Views/TVGuide-Talk/PodCasts/default.aspx
Many of the CNN news have podcasts…and I think I listen/watch Glen Beck fairly often http://www.glennbeck.com/podcast/download.shtml
And James, Kevin, and Matt on MoTR (Mobile Tech Roundup) http://www.mobiletechroundup.com/ (usually 30+ minutes, so I don’t always have a chance to listen to them all)
I have never really listened to a podcast, but thanks to the post here, I am about to try it. refredarator is going to be my first.
Here’s another podcast all about Zunes:
zune://subscribe/?thezuneshow=http://feeds.feedburner.com/Thezuneshow
i am still flipping with joy because zune know even sopports podcasts. That would have been the one reason i would have moved to an ipod. O and cnet said that podcast intergration on the zune was just as tight or tighter than the ipod.
I listen as much to podcasts as to music. (I run or bike a bit more than an hour a day, so I listen to them then)
Twit
Bob Dylan podcast (narrated by Patty Smith - this is fun)
Slate’s Political Gabfest
Steve Gibson’s Security Now
Grammar Girl
Slate’s Spoiler Specials
Slate’s Audio Book Club
NPR Sunday Puzzle
Car Talk Call of the Week
NYTimes Tech Talk
and a few Mac podcasts:
The Mac Attack
MacBreak Tech
MacCast
Okay so here is my list now. Again I have never listened to or watched a podcast until these posts, so thanks for the info.
Best of Youtube
Diggnation
Heart of the Night show
Onion News (love the Onion!)
refrederator
The monkey box
New Yorker animated cartoons
and an “adult” podcast.
Most of those came from the marketplace itself.
Car Talk
I love the click and clack brothers, great show!
Also GMKing.org’s podcast (which hasn’t been released for a while)
Oh, and the Google Developer Podcast, to satisfy my geeky side
Well I am really into video games so I listen to a lot of game podcasts. Like:
1UP YOurs
Gamespot Presents the Hotspot
Ign’s Podcast series.
I also listen to a few Comic book related podcasts such as
ComicGeekSpeak http://www.comicgeekspeak.com
Ifanboy http://www.ifanboy.com
AroundComics http://www.aroundcomics.com
I sometimes listen to a Star WArs podcast from http://www.theforce.net.
I atill love that podcasts are supported i think XCG3 but it right
“i am still flipping with joy because zune know even sopports podcasts. That would have been the one reason i would have moved to an ipod. O and cnet said that podcast intergration on the zune was just as tight or tighter than the ipod.”
I subscribe to anything with the word ninja, such as ask a ninja and ninja warrior
Check out the newest Cnet MP3 insider.
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-12519_7-6508253-1.html?tag=cnetfd.pdcst
They talk about the Zune.
Here’s my list:
TWiT
Windows Weekly
Diggnation
PodTech.net
Nova e=mc2
Hanselminutes
“bright” = a dutch life style news vodcast
best of youtube, as described above
thezuneshow, stuff related to zune
don’t like podcast longer than 15 minutes (except if they are video :P)
I really want the National Geographic ones (How cute is that to have a little furry animal on your player…) and then Best of YOUTUBE? Priceless!
i watch a ton of podcasts. Mainly tech shows, so this was a huge reason for me to get the zune.
twit
diggnation
systm
thebroken
indigital
dl.tv
tekzilla
security now
net@night
On10
cranky geeks
tikibar tv
ctrl+alt+chicken
hack.5
textra
totally rad show
ifanboy
commandN
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