Do you listen to podcasts?  Are there any you’d recommend?
Inspired by Alex.

Weird, I was just posting on another forum about what podcasts I listen to.

Yep, I do listen to podcasts. Have for about a year now ever since I discovered This Week In Tech. I have a hookup in my car so I can listen to my iPod though my stereo, so I usually listen to these while driving to work/class. Most of my podcasts are tech oriented, so I’ll start with them. All of these are available on iTunes

The one I look forward to most of all is CNET’s Buzz Out Loud, the CNET Podcast of Interterminate Length. It’s a daily news podcast, but they put an entertaining spin on it. They’re very interactive with the listeners too, taking calls, mp3 questions and e-mails which they select some and play them at the end of the show.

Another tech news podcast I listen to is What’s New Now? from ZD-Net and PC Magazine. This one’s more for the Patrick Norton factor rather than anything else interesting about it. They do come up with some good views usually, but it’s not one I look forward to showing up in iTunes.

There’s the podcasts connected to the TWiT network. Of those I regularly listen to This Week In Tech (General Tech discussion), Inside the Net (web 2.0 stuff), Windows Weekly (Windows news), MacBreak Weekly (Mac/Apple news) and FLOSS Weekly (Interviews with the people in the open source community).

I have two other podcasts devoted to Apple/Mac stuff, which are the MacCast and the Unofficial Apple Weblog Podcast. I generally get all my Apple news from there.

Bordering on the tech stuff is video games. For that I turn to the PC Gamer Podcast from, as you might expect, the people over at PC Gamer.

The last two Podcasts are the Barenaked Ladies Podcast when they actually decide to release one. Those guys are always funny. I also listen to the Onion Radio News which is a daily, short 30-60 second podcast reading off a funny satire news story from The Onion.

Ok, Video podcasts! Now that I’ve got a video iPod, I’m getting more into these. Of course, you need to have Ask a Ninja. If you haven’t seen that one…GO! CHECK IT OUT NOW! Then there’s the Strong Bad Emails one which takes the SBEmail’s from homestarrunner.com and turns them into video so you can watch them on the go. Finally, CommandN, which is a tech news centered video podcast, but with a Web 2.0/apple slant.

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