Podcasts

Podcasts were interesting to explore until I realized that just like commercial radio, they can be full of commercials. I was hoping that saving radio shows as podcasts will be about selection and creating "tracks" where not the whole hour long show would be shoved into a podcast, but it would be broken down and tagged, so people would be able to go straight to what they need.

But back to the start. I liked the fact that Podcast alley doesn't require any additional software, I didn't like Podcast.net at all, the player didn't work for me, and while it included international podcasts, it missed out on some local ones. Yahoo seemed the most appealing in appearance (plus it helps that you don't need to create yet another account). It is nice that yahoo allows you to download the podcasts and play them later. I didn't like the subscription plan there that would require you to install the software or use iTunes -- I would prefer for it to just create a music file or let you choose Windows Media Player to be the default player. I have iTunes on my computer and when I subscribed to a podcast it automatically went there, which I wasn't happy about, because for some reason I have to work extra hard now to remove it -- it doesn't follow the rules of other music files and doesn't allow me to delete it.

I did find some interesting podcasts to listen to as a one time thing, but I don't usually listen to radio, so I don't see how podcasts would be appealing to me. We'll see. My technology at home is slowing me down -- I can't do a lot of podcasting or YouTube stuff there. Hopefully when we upgrade our connection, I might find a way to narrow it down to what I'm interested in and make it more part of my everyday life.

Thing #21 -- check!