Shush 2.0

Up until now, I’ve only listened to the MPR podcast “Musicheads.” I found it on The Current’s website and learned about it while listening to the radio. I subscribe to it with iTunes and listen to them on my iPod while I walk to work. Having explored the podcast directories, I think I like Podcast Alley the best. Not knowing what I was looking for when I started searching, I found something worth listening to the easiest on Podcast Alley. I liked the hierarchical nature of Podcast.net, but the podcast I chose there turned out to be dead, so playing the role of someone with a short attention span, I moved on. The results in Yahoo! seemed too random to sift through and there didn’t seem to be a way to browse.

I think I ended this experiment feeling pretty much the same as I started–I enjoy listening to podcasts more when I don’t have to search for them. I like that I can listen to them when I have time and they wait for me when I don’t.

Some of my classmates did a group project on podcasting, and I think their work was pretty great. I like the idea of podcasts of book & music reviews, interviews, and original children’s stories being available via my library.