Why Sheep? » Podcasts

The Traneumentary

whysheep — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:12:02 +0000

This is a fixed-episode-count podcast (they just put out the final episode) about John Coltrane and his music and his impact on jazz.

Most episodes are pretty short (~10 mins) and involve either interviews/commentary with experts on John Coltrane (or the quartet) or with people who played with him, such as McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Cobb, Charles Tolliver, Steve Kuhn.
A few episodes dive pretty deeply into the kinds of music things that Coltrane did that were so revolutionary. I found every episode to be extremely fascinating (and educational!).

Links: iTunes and the website at BlogSpot.

This Week in Tech (TWiT)

whysheep — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:09:41 +0000

David Kaffine told me about the TWiT podcast a while back and it has become a lasting staple of mine.

It is one of the few “long” (~1 hour, give or take) podcasts I listen to, but it is very interesting.There is a regular crew of heavy-duty podcasters (Leo Laporte and John C. Dvorak and a handful of others) who have really been around a lot of technology, especially web stuff. Most of them are heavy bloggers and several have been involved in podcasts or Internet “TV/radio” broadcasting for a long time.

Sometimes they get carried away with some sort-of inside jokes, but there are always a few hot, new, interesting things to learn about. (Plus they are mostly big Mac fans.

Some recent things I’ve learned of from TWiT: Drupal, Twitter, Morgan Webb’s new WebbAlert, Mahalo.com, Revision3′s Tekzilla, and lots more.

iTunes Link for the podcast and the website is at twit.tv.

David Pogue & BusinessWeek: Technology and You

whysheep — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:59:56 +0000

These are my two of my favorite tech-podcasts. They are short (7-10 minutes) and always current and interesting. Sometimes they report on the same thing, but always in their own way.

David Pogue is a long-time Apple/Mac and Palm fan and as a rep of the New York Times, he was one of the very few to get an iPhone before release. This podcast is a “reading” of one of his columns, but I’ve found that it is more fun to listen to as he is very enthusiastic in his reading. (FYI: he is a big advocate of speech-to-text technology and he says he does not type very much, he talks to his computer, so I guess his real talking is just more interesting than the result of translating his talking to text for reading.)

The BusinessWeek podcast is done in an “interview” style wherean editor talks to Steve Wildstrom about a recent column and asks him questions to get him talking. Again, always current and interesting.

Pogue’s iTunes link and his website link.

BusinessWeek iTunes link and the website link.