Podcasts

Recon

Do many people here listen to podcasts? I've listened to a good few but haven't really found many that are very good. The best ones I found so far are the awful show, noobtoob and the mediocre show. Check them out and let me know what you think.

faceman

im subscribed to a number of podcasts on itunes. My fav's are:

2 irish geeks and a tv
Mark kermode film review
Ricky gervais podcast (no longer being made cept for the crap video cast)
best of chris moyles
attack of the show (only to get early previews of movies and games with the odd good interview)

i think podcasts are great way of keepin up on thing. I previously downloaded some language classes and my mate abroad downloads the irish news via podcast to keep up to date.

Best part is its all free

Tha Gopher

No. Cant understand how anyone can be arsed watching podcasts. Or peoples personal opinion vids on youtube.

DonkeyStyle \o/

My podcast diet consists mostly of:
twit.tv
crankygeeks.com

MooseJam

i think it's gas the way people were hyping podcasts as the wave of the future and a cool new way of communication when it's just recorded audio and its been around since i dunno the fifties

faceman

Tha Gopher wrote:

No. Cant understand how anyone can be arsed watching podcasts. Or peoples personal opinion vids on youtube.

The ricky gervais podcast averaged 261,670 downloads a week. Thats alot of people arsed to do it.

Recon

I don't get many video podcasts. Noobtoob (a gaming podcast) does videos of their shows, and ask a ninja has videos. All the others are audio.

I mainly started getting into them to listen to at work. I work 12 hour shift and it's a lot better to be able to listen a couple of guys telling a few jokes and having a laugh while working than listening to the stupid radio. And it gets a bit annoying listening to music that you already heard a million times before for 12 hours.

Ghost Train

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

My podcast diet consists mostly of:
twit.tv
crankygeeks.com

I listen to twit and some of the twit related podcasts too

Ghost Train

MooseJam wrote:

i think it's gas the way people were hyping podcasts as the wave of the future and a cool new way of communication when it's just recorded audio and its been around since i dunno the fifties

I think though it's the fact its much easier for an amature to get started broadcasting, and distribute a show to anybody around the world

Recon

Here's a link to a spoof ad they did on the awful show.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Tha Gopher wrote:

No. Cant understand how anyone can be arsed watching podcasts. Or peoples personal opinion vids on youtube.

Yeah most of it is total crap, it's the same with blogging... out of the millions of blogs out there, there are maybe a handful that I'd actually bother reading.
The only podcasts I listen to are either experts in whatever field or professional journalists/broadcasters who actually know how to host a talk-show... hence twit and crankygeeks.
I've tried a few other podcasts, but they're either hosted by giggling, waffling morons or just sound plain nasty (or both)... I wouldn't blame you for throwing your hat at it... I find the quality content is often lost in the sea of user generated content crap.

eolhc wrote:

I listen to twit and some of the twit related podcasts too

Ah another member of the twit army

Roar

i get kevin smith's podcasts (or smodcasts as he calls em), which are quite entertaining

*edit that was my 1,000th post, what a way to use it eh??

faceman

^ cool, never knew he had one! Downloading it now, thanks!

MrVestek

Roar wrote:

i get kevin smith's podcasts (or smodcasts as he calls em), which are quite entertaining

Kevin Smith's a cool guy, I used to watch the likes of The Broken and Systm.org before he got onto TV in the states. Just goes to show that if you have enough video podcasts out there that are actually interesting (his were all about how to hack certain things in windows and build things froms cratch or reverse engineer things) then somebody will take notice and probably offer you some kinda TV job.

*edit*

****e I was actually thinking about Kevin Rose, never mind :-)

Recon

Roar wrote:

i get kevin smith's podcasts (or smodcasts as he calls em), which are quite entertaining

I forgot about that, I listen to it too.

Puckertime is good as well.

projectmayhem

Achilles wrote:

Kevin Smith's a cool guy, I used to watch the likes of The Broken and Systm.org before he got onto TV in the states. Just goes to show that if you have enough video podcasts out there that are actually interesting (his were all about how to hack certain things in windows and build things froms cratch or reverse engineer things) then somebody will take notice and probably offer you some kinda TV job.

*edit*

****e I was actually thinking about Kevin Rose, never mind :-)

hah i was gonna say, wrong kevin. i enjoy Diggnation myself, loads of nerdy tech stuff with a smattering of drunk-induced hilarity every now and then. usually tune into most of the revision3 videocast stuff

RuggieBear

projectmayhem wrote:

hah i was gonna say, wrong kevin. i enjoy Diggnation myself, loads of nerdy tech stuff with a smattering of drunk-induced hilarity every now and then. usually tune into most of the revision3 videocast stuff

ditto.

i particularly like the totally rad show (to my eternal shame)

listen to crankey geeks, mark kermode and alot of the twit stuff too.

MrVestek

Yeah, I hadn't realised they'd made a fourth The Broken episode as a response to fans but methinks that it'll definately be their final episode. A little less nerdcore than their other episodes but they do still walk you through how to softmod the 360 and get your own mobile phone signal blocker