Podcasts Ramblings
I started listening to podcasts on my T3 a few weeks ago. QuickNews on the palm makes this very easy when combined with my Edge data connection from T-mobile. I started listening to a few of the big ones: Daily Source Code, 2600's Off The Hook, Marketplace Takeoutand Science Fridays from NPR.
I've also been listening to Cory Doctorow's lastest short story via podcast. The story he just finished was called "After the Siege" and is a Sci-Fi story inspired by the 900 day siege of Leningrad (modern day St. Petersburg) The first few podcasts were done with a horrible built-in laptop mic, but he buys a new microphone about 3 entries in. The story is good enough to put up with the bad sound to start.
But I've found a problem. The variety and timeshifting nature of podcasting is completely ruining me for regular radio. My solution: more podcasts! Yahoo's podcast search is the best I've seen out there. I've found a few more I'm going to try out, but the most interesting one I've found is Chinese language lessons via podcast. I've had a desire to start studying Chinese for a few years now, so I downloaded the first 7 episodes to give it a try. I've listened to the first two, and while I have no idea how to spell (pinyin or characters) I do feel think I'm getting a basic understanding of some vocabulary. While searching, I also found some podcast language lessons for french, but since that's Meg's language of choice, I didn't download those to try any out. I'd rather it just sound exotic and mysterious when she says" What color is this? This is Blue" in french.