I admit it; I am addicted--not to a substance but to a service. Podcasting is an internet based service that syndicates periodic audio and video programs to subscribers. There are podcasts about virtually any topic that you can imagine and most of them are free. To subscribe you need a program that geeks call a podcast aggregator. By far the most popular and easiest to use is iTunes which is free from Apple. Using iTunes you can listen to or watch podcasts from your PC or Mac and you can transfer them to your iPod, iPad or iPhone. If you have another type of mobile device, you’ll have to use a program other than iTunes.
I have listed below some of the podcasts that I find interesting. The stars are my own simple minded ranking system. I find listening makes time pass faster whether I am logging miles on the bus or the treadmill.
Let me know if you have favorites.
Books
✩✩New York Times Book Review--weekly discussion with authors and reviewers about newest releases and literary trends. http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/podcasts/bookupdate.xml
NPR: Books Podcast--NPR book reviews, news and author interviews. Not published on a regular schedule http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510283
New York Review of Books--Interviews, lectures, readings and more from the staff and contributors of The New York Review of Books. Not published on a regular schedule. http://feeds.feedburner.com/nybooks-podcasts
Business
✩✩✩Weekend Business--Mostly interviews with authors of articles in the Sunday Business section of the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/podcasts/weekendbiz.xml
Harvard Business IdeaCast--From Harvard Business Publishing http://hbsp.libsyn.com/rss
Knowledge@Wharton Interviews--the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. They haven’t been adding new material as often recently. http://feeds.feedburner.com/KnowledgewhartonInterviews
✩The Invisible Hand: Management, Economics and Strategy for the Thinking Person--Chris Gondek interviews authors of books about management and strategy. http://feeds.feedburner.com/theinvisiblehandpodcast/bOjc
MIT Press Podcast--Interviews with the authors of books currently being published by MIT Press. http://feeds.feedburner.com/MITPodcastIT
Social Innovation Conversations--Educational podcasts on social entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, philanthropy, corporate social responsibility http://feeds.conversationsnetwork.org/channel/siconversations
Economics
✩✩EconTalk--Prof Russ Roberts of George Mason University discusses economics issues and other topics that interest him with a range of like minded conservatives. Sometimes too one-sided but usually enjoyable. http://www.econlib.org/library/EconTalk.xml
✩Peterson Perspectives: Interviews on Current Issues--Peterson Institute research staff offer their analyses of current economic and political events in brief interviews. The Peterson Institute for International Economics is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of inter http://feeds.feedburner.com/Peterson-Perspectives.xml
✩✩Martin Wolf--the Financial Time's chief economics commentator reads his weekly column. Wolf is probably the best economics writer working in English. His podcasts are very tight. I often have to go back to the written version to unpack what he has said, but it is worth the effort. Occasionally he dives into some issue particular to the UK that is of less interest, but you can always skip that. http://podcast.ft.com/rss/17/
✩✩✩London School of Economics: Public lectures and events--Audio recordings from LSE's programme of public lectures and events. Huge amount of great material and often extends way beyond economics. Howard Davies talking about the Chinese financial system is unequalled as is Danny Quan on China’s economy. http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/rss/publicLecturesAndEvents.rss
History, Culture, Miscellany
✩✩Great Lives/BBC Radio 4--Biography series exploring the greatest people who ever lived. Matthew Parris interviews an eminent guest and an expert to reveal the truth behind their history heroes. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/greatlives/rss.xml
✩✩✩In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg/BBC Radio 4--The history of ideas discussed by Melvyn Bragg and guests including Philosophy, science, literature, religion and the influence these ideas have on us today. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iot/rss.xml
✩✩✩The New Yorker--Weekly reading of major articles and reviews from The New Yorker. Extremely well produced with professional readers. Available by subscription from Audible.com which is a great source of downloadable recorded books. http://feeds.audible.com/rss/subs/p/PE_NYER_000001/e/28001a17451a15/c/mp332
✩✩NPR: Fresh Air Podcast--Almost daily Terry Gross interviews important public figures from all domains. http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=13
✩NYT Tech Talk--The latest tech news and Internet trends from New York Times technology writers. http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/podcasts/techtalk.xml
✩PRI: Selected Shorts Podcast--It's story time for adults with PRI's short story series. http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510202
✩✩RSA Events: Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)--Lectures and panel discussions on a wide range of topics put on by an organization more than 250 years old. http://www.thersa.org/rss/rsa-audio/
Science Times--A roundup of the topics addressed in the week's New York Times Science section http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/podcasts/scienceupdate.xml
✩✩TED Talks--These are video podcasts of presentations by (usually) fascinating people at the big TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in Silicon Valley and some regional TED conferences.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TEDTalks_video
This American Life--weekly podcast of the radio show "This American Life." First-person stories and short fiction pieces. Hosted by Ira Glass, from WBEZ Chicago Public Radio. http://feeds.thisamericanlife.org/talpodcast
I have listed below some of the podcasts that I find interesting. The stars are my own simple minded ranking system. I find listening makes time pass faster whether I am logging miles on the bus or the treadmill.
Let me know if you have favorites.
Books
✩✩New York Times Book Review--weekly discussion with authors and reviewers about newest releases and literary trends. http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/podcasts/bookupdate.xml
NPR: Books Podcast--NPR book reviews, news and author interviews. Not published on a regular schedule http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510283
New York Review of Books--Interviews, lectures, readings and more from the staff and contributors of The New York Review of Books. Not published on a regular schedule. http://feeds.feedburner.com/nybooks-podcasts
Business
✩✩✩Weekend Business--Mostly interviews with authors of articles in the Sunday Business section of the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/podcasts/weekendbiz.xml
Harvard Business IdeaCast--From Harvard Business Publishing http://hbsp.libsyn.com/rss
Knowledge@Wharton Interviews--the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. They haven’t been adding new material as often recently. http://feeds.feedburner.com/KnowledgewhartonInterviews
✩The Invisible Hand: Management, Economics and Strategy for the Thinking Person--Chris Gondek interviews authors of books about management and strategy. http://feeds.feedburner.com/theinvisiblehandpodcast/bOjc
MIT Press Podcast--Interviews with the authors of books currently being published by MIT Press. http://feeds.feedburner.com/MITPodcastIT
Social Innovation Conversations--Educational podcasts on social entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, philanthropy, corporate social responsibility http://feeds.conversationsnetwork.org/channel/siconversations
Economics
✩✩EconTalk--Prof Russ Roberts of George Mason University discusses economics issues and other topics that interest him with a range of like minded conservatives. Sometimes too one-sided but usually enjoyable. http://www.econlib.org/library/EconTalk.xml
✩Peterson Perspectives: Interviews on Current Issues--Peterson Institute research staff offer their analyses of current economic and political events in brief interviews. The Peterson Institute for International Economics is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of inter http://feeds.feedburner.com/Peterson-Perspectives.xml
✩✩Martin Wolf--the Financial Time's chief economics commentator reads his weekly column. Wolf is probably the best economics writer working in English. His podcasts are very tight. I often have to go back to the written version to unpack what he has said, but it is worth the effort. Occasionally he dives into some issue particular to the UK that is of less interest, but you can always skip that. http://podcast.ft.com/rss/17/
✩✩✩London School of Economics: Public lectures and events--Audio recordings from LSE's programme of public lectures and events. Huge amount of great material and often extends way beyond economics. Howard Davies talking about the Chinese financial system is unequalled as is Danny Quan on China’s economy. http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/rss/publicLecturesAndEvents.rss
History, Culture, Miscellany
✩✩Great Lives/BBC Radio 4--Biography series exploring the greatest people who ever lived. Matthew Parris interviews an eminent guest and an expert to reveal the truth behind their history heroes. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/greatlives/rss.xml
✩✩✩In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg/BBC Radio 4--The history of ideas discussed by Melvyn Bragg and guests including Philosophy, science, literature, religion and the influence these ideas have on us today. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iot/rss.xml
✩✩✩The New Yorker--Weekly reading of major articles and reviews from The New Yorker. Extremely well produced with professional readers. Available by subscription from Audible.com which is a great source of downloadable recorded books. http://feeds.audible.com/rss/subs/p/PE_NYER_000001/e/28001a17451a15/c/mp332
✩✩NPR: Fresh Air Podcast--Almost daily Terry Gross interviews important public figures from all domains. http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=13
✩NYT Tech Talk--The latest tech news and Internet trends from New York Times technology writers. http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/podcasts/techtalk.xml
✩PRI: Selected Shorts Podcast--It's story time for adults with PRI's short story series. http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510202
✩✩RSA Events: Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)--Lectures and panel discussions on a wide range of topics put on by an organization more than 250 years old. http://www.thersa.org/rss/rsa-audio/
Science Times--A roundup of the topics addressed in the week's New York Times Science section http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/podcasts/scienceupdate.xml
✩✩TED Talks--These are video podcasts of presentations by (usually) fascinating people at the big TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in Silicon Valley and some regional TED conferences.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TEDTalks_video
This American Life--weekly podcast of the radio show "This American Life." First-person stories and short fiction pieces. Hosted by Ira Glass, from WBEZ Chicago Public Radio. http://feeds.thisamericanlife.org/talpodcast
1 comment:
SO glad you included This American Life. I like the Planet Money podcasts, too. Also -- not political but still insightful in other interesting ways, is "The State We're In, from Radio Netherlands." And TED is the delight I allow myself once a week, or I'd end up spending too much time there! I really want to go to a live TED event sometime.
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