Zapping, channel surfing, channel hopping or whatever you would like to call it; I am learning it again.
There are about 90 video and audio podcasts in my subscription list in iTunes. They range from “This week in Startups” to “Dance department” and “Boagworld” to the excellent “TED Talks”.
It is different from Regular Old TV (ROT) because I have conciously chosen each subscription as opposed to channels whose content I don’t control. The amount of annoying advertisements is very low. There are Ads but they are better targeted to me and they can easily be skipped.
But with 90 subscriptions there is still too much to see or listen to. I can’t consume it all. That’s why I have been developing new habbits:
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Audio podcasts (talk, not music) are played back at double speed.
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If a podcast contains content that I’ve already heard: skip.
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If a podcast contains content that I may be interested in some time in the future: skip. (Except the TED talks.)
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If I have skipped several episodes of a podcast in a row: unsubscribe.
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For current affairs and news podcasts, if they’re older than a few days: skip
Comments
Author: Hugo Schotman
Date: 2009-12-17 14:16:40
Sure,
You can import this OPML file straight into iTunes (or many other “podcatchers”):http://log.hugoschotman.com/hugo/files/Podcasts-091217-2.opml
Just open it in a text editor to find the individual URLs.
I’ve cleaned out some that are not valid anymore but some of these have not published anything or a long time.This is the human readable list:- Digital Flotsam- One More Thing podcast- Adam Curry: Daily Source Code- Venture Voice- Peter Day’s World of Business- primohaus- Tiki Bar TV- Radio 538: Dance Department- Snowfix (video): Skiing & snowboarding- MacBreak (video)- The John Digweed Podcast- Harvard Business IdeaCast- Release Yourself- commandN h.264- Media Artist Secrets- Ask A Ninja - iPod- net@night- this WEEK in MEDIA (enhanced)- Joe Cartoon- CNN Now in the News (video)- The Project Management Podcast- Dean Coleman Podcasts- IT Conversations- Podcast Academy - The #1 Source for Podcast Education- Berkman Center for Internet and Society: Audio Fishbowl- The Latest Videos and Podcasts from SXSW- The Masthead with Marie Claire- dotBoom - a puppet show about web designers.- The Larry King Podcast (Video)- Trance Tuesday Podcast- Radio 538: Tiësto`s club life podcast- The GigaOm Show (Large Quicktime)- GeekBrief.TV | Extra Large Format- Diggnation (HD Quicktime)- 60 Minutes - Full Broadcast in Audio- No Agenda- podgrunt- videogrunt- Mahalo Daily- Boagworld Web Design Advice- UXpod - User Experience Podcast- The TrueTalk Blog- Change Nation- Wine Library TV- Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing- Apple Keynotes- Anderson Cooper 360° Daily (Video)- Real Time with Bill Maher- The Quincy Jones Show- TEDTalks (hd)- SmallBizPod - the small business podcast- John Cleese Podcast- Wynton Marsalis - Podcast- Spacemusic hosted by TC (5)- TEDTalks : 2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for Compassion - Karen Armstrong (2008) (video)- Web Strategy and E-Business Development for the Digital Economy - Lars Hilse- NOS Vodcast Journaal 20:00 uur- Jiskefet podcast- Loic Le Meur podcast- Digital, Life Design Conference Video Portal- I.A. Podcast- President Obama’s Weekly Radio Address- Blue Shots - She - Vodcast- Blue Shots - Idealize - Vodcast- Loaded (HD)- Optaros Media Cast- Obsessed TV- This Week in Startups- The Crew- GapCasts by Gapminder Foundation- Deep House Cat- Target Women- Rocketboom (HD)- Gary Vaynerchuk- Fresh Air! Lounge Series- The Toastmasters Podcast- Wealth Nation- drupal-la- Stephen Fry’s PODGRAMS (Audio & Visual)- This Week In Google- CHI Conversations- Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Insights - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image- Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders- WNYC’s Radio Lab- this WEEK in TECH - MP3 Edition- David Allen Company Updates- The Gillmor Gang