Don Turnbull

I often mention something I have heard in a podcast and am asked what podcasts I listen to. Here is a list of my favorite podcasts, with a few comments.

• All in the Mind – iTunes
• Evernote Blogcast – I use Evernote, it is a great note-taking and information management application. I also like the back and forth among the Evernote guys who talk about updates and tips. iTunes
• Boxes and Arrows Podcast – Interviews or conference presentation audio from practitioners in Information Architecture, User Experience and other Information Design professions. iTunes
• The Economist: Special reports – iTunes
• FORA.tv Technology Today – iTunes
• HBR IdeaCast – iTunes
• IT Conversations – iTunes
• Knowledge@Wharton Interviews – iTunes
• Librivox: Roughing It by Mark Twain – Free audiobook version of Twain’s novel. iTunes
• Librivox: Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain – Another free audiobook version of a Mark Twain novel. iTunes
• MIT Sloan School of Management Podcast – iTunes
• Nielsen Analytics Podcast – iTunes
• Old Jews Telling Jokes – This video podcast is a comedy goldmine of classic jokes told with enthusiasm (and klezmer music). – iTunes
• FT Management – iTunes
• FT Digital Business with Peter Whitehead – iTunes
• The Royal Society – Audio Podcasts – Great talks about the history of science by authors, historians and practicing scientists. iTunes
• Vanguard: Plain Talk on Investing – iTunes
• The Moth Podcast – iTunes
• APM: Weekend America Enhanced Podcast – iTunes
• PRI: To the Best of Our Knowledge Podcast – iTunes
• Beyond Web Analytics! – iTunes
• Bloomberg On The Economy – iTunes
• Bloomberg Surveillance – iTunes
• WireTap from CBC Radio – Canadian scripted radio show with a collection of characters based in Montreal, but universally amusing. iTunes
• Intelligence Squared Podcasts – iTunes
• SALT – Seminars About Long Term Thinking – iTunes
• PRI: The Sound of Young America – iTunes
• New Yorker: Fiction – Past stories from the New Yorker Magazine read by current authors or critics. iTunes
• NPR: Books Podcast – iTunes
• NPR: Fresh Air Podcast – Terry Gross interviewing just about everyone.iTunes
• NPR: Planet Money – Easily digestible review of topics relating to finance and the economy. iTunes
• NPR: Krulwich on Science – iTunes
• NPR: Health & Science – iTunes
• NPR: At Your Leisure – iTunes
• Science & the City – iTunes
• The New York Review of Books – iTunes
• New York Times Book Review – iTunes
• Travel with Rick Steves – iTunes
• Science of Better: Crunching the Numbers, an INFORMS – iTunes
• 60-Second Mind – iTunes
• The Tobolowsky Files – Biographical reflections from Stephen Tobolowsky, a Dallas-born actor and raconteur. iTunes
• Slate’s Audio Book Club – iTunes
• PRI: Science and Creativity from Studio 360 – iTunes
• Everyday I Read the Book – iTunes
• The Big Money Podcasts – iTunes
• WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show – Radio interviews with authors and experts discussing almost anything. iTunes
• Bob Edwards Weekend – iTunes

Still in Beta, NPR is building an index of Podcasts, which you can sort by topic, title or provider.

Of course, regular RSS feeds are available as well. (Please, just put the link for both media player formats on the page for each broadcast, do we really need to go to another page just to select which streaming format? Thanks NPR!)

For the record, I still think “podcast” is a bad name for this media distribution method. Media RSS seems to be more descriptive (because eventually people will also have to say “video podcast” or somesuch and so on…).

Am I the only one who doesn’t care about podcasting?

Why would I want to HEAR posts from someone when I can skim them in seconds in my RSS reader? There are so many other interesting things to listen to and it’s not like most of our voices are sonorous enough for lengthy attention.