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January 2, 2009

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There are some other excellent podcasts that I listen to on a daily and weekly basis during my commute to and from work. These are (In no particular order):

-Marketplace Money by American Public Media
-KCRW's Left, Right and Center (Features Ariana Huffington)
-The Moth Podcast (Stories well-told)
-Car Talk Podcast (Click and Clack's entire weekly radio show)
-Sunday Puzzle Podcast (featuring NY Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz), and
-Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! Podcast (the weekly NPR radio quiz show.

Posted by Robbo | January 4, 2009 10:15 AM

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I really like the weekly podcast from Slate : the Gabfest.

Posted by Kevin | January 6, 2009 3:02 AM

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I found this website www.voicebubble.com with all different kind of podcasts; I liked the poetry recitals.

Posted by Rick | January 6, 2009 6:29 PM

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Big fan of the Future Tense podcast itself!

Additionally,
The Economist
NYT Tech Talk
and from Australia's ABC, The Philosopher's Zone and Ockham's Razor

Posted by Paul | January 7, 2009 8:38 AM

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Here are my favorite podcasts, most of the ones I listen to in fact, in no particular order:

Humor:
* The Bugle is amazingly funny.
* The Onion is very funny, but so is the Wootcast from Woot.com.
* The Moth is often very funny.
* You Look Nice Today is always funny.
* Escape Pod and PodCastle are the best short fiction podcasts.
* The Friday Night Comedy podcast from the BBC includes the News Quiz half the time, the British version of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, which is always great.
* Car Talk is consistently funny.
* Bells in the Batfry is a kind of Muppet Show-style humor.
* Real Time with Bill Maher is the audio track from the HBO series, which means the visual gags get lost, but still plenty topically funny.
* Downloadable Content, The Penny Arcade Podcast is rarely updated, but is a very funny behind-the-scenes listen to how a Penny Arcade comic strip is made.
* I miss Russell Brand's BBC show, but still enjoy Jon Richardson, Adam and Joe, Rhod Gilbert, and Scotland's Funny Bits.

Drama:
* Decoder Ring Theatre produces the best old-radio-style audio drama. Nothing beats Black Jack Justice.
* Teknikal Diffikulties (TekDiff) is primarily a comedy podcast, but has been doing a very good drama series called The Account lately.
* Radio Drama Revival plays content from many sources from WMPG Portland.
* Wormwood is kind of a cross between the X-Files and Twin Peaks.
* VintageRadioShows.com produces a great sampling of content from the Golden Age of Radio.

News and Entertainment:
* NPR's Playback really provides perspective by playing a monthly sampling of news from exactly 25 years ago.
* NPR's Planet Money is required listening for anyone worried about the current economic trouble.
* NPR's Hourly News Summary is a quick 5-minute look at the news.
* This American Life and Radiolab--obviously.
* Australian Broadcasting's (ABC) Night Air is like a sort of trance mix of content from random sources, kind of like if Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad started an ambient house band.
* The BBC's Pods and Blogs covers Internet news.
* Slashdot Review and tech5 provide good tech news.
* Stephen Fry's Podgrams features Fry in a series of amusing or enlightening essays.
* BBC 4's Best of Today provides a British view of news.

Music:
* Jazz NW from KPLU is an hour of great Seattle jazz every week.
* NPR's All Songs Considered and Second Stage are excellent sources of new music.
* They Might Be Giants has a podcast full of songs that they update infrequently.
* KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic features a group playing in the studio each week.
* CBC's New Music Canada Track of the Day,
* the Australian Broadcasting's (ABC) Triple-J New Music Podcast,
* KCRW's Today's Top Tune,
* MPR's The Current Song of the Day,
* BBC Scotland Introducing,

Posted by Brianary | January 7, 2009 10:15 PM

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The following podcasts are what I enjoy, in alpha order. Most can be found on iTunes or Google. Yes, I'm a geek! :-)

APM: Future Tense
The Best of National Geographic Magazine
Best of YouTube
The Discovery Files
Discovery Space Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity Podcast
Pretty much everything at qdnow.com
Get-It-Done Guy's...
Grammar Girl's...
Legal Lad's...
Modern Manners Guy...
Money Girl's...
Hidden Universe: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
Hubblecast
Learn Excel from MrExcel Video Podcast
MPR: Jet Streaming
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Podcasts
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
NASACast: Solar System Video
NASACast: Space Shuttle and Space Station Video
NASACast: This Week @ NASA Video
National Press Club - XM Satellite Radio Broadcasts
NOVA|PBS
NPR: Car Talk Podcast
NPR: Driveway Moments Podcast
NPR: Hmmm.... Krulwich on Science Podcast
NPR: Story of the Day Podcast
NPR: Technology Podcast
NPR: This I Believe Podcast
PRI's The World - Geo Quiz Podcast
PRI: To the Best of Our Knowledge Podcast
Science @ NASA Feature Stories Podcast
Science Talk: The Podcast of Scientific American
StarDate
This American Life
Wild Chronicles Digital Shorts
60-Second Science

Some of these are short, ~1.5 minutes, and some are slightly more than an hour. Some are updated daily and some are infrequently updated. Most are audio, but a fair number are video

Another that was great, but is no longer updated is listed here. If you can, I suggest that you download it.

Logically Critical http://www.logicallycritical.net/Welcome.html

Posted by Dave | January 11, 2009 9:49 PM