Podcasts And Videocasts I Enjoy

When iTunes 4.9 was released, podcasts were exposed to a large potential audience. I subscribed to dozens. Since then, I’ve followed the podcasting industry at a distance over the past few years.

It didn’t take long before the podcasts I subscribed to slowly dwindled off my subscription list due to many contributing factors. I eventually came to a point where I didn’t listed to any at all.

Recently I’ve revived my listening habits and now have a few favorite shows I eagerly await updates to daily, weekly, and monthly.

Macbreak Weekly

MacBreak Weekly is run by Leo Laporte and the team over at TWIT is a weekly show highlighting the best of the weeks happenings in the Mac world.

I thoroughly enjoy listening to the well educated Merlin Mann each week, spilling the latest productivity and workplace tips. I’ve been a listener to MacBreak Weekly since week one, overall it’s my favorite Mac radio show.

The Talk Show

Recently launched, The Talk Show is hosted by John Gruber and Dan Benjamin, both long time Mac fanatics. John Gruber, the more well known of the two is author of the popular Daring Fireball read by over 40,000 on a daily basis.

I still haven’t exactly figured out what the general topic of The Talk Show is, as with each episode, a new topic is explored. In the most recent episode John and Dan are talked about punctuation, while the previous episode they had guest James Duncan Davidson, Apple & O’Reilly Media event photography on the show talking photography.

The Chris Pirillo Show

I only recently discovered Chris Pirillo through my good friend Michael Yurechko. For those who don’t know (like I didn’t), Chris is a former employee of G4 media. He now runs a personal blog, company blog, video show, and broadcasts a 24/7 “lifestream” directly out of his office.

The Chris Pirillo Show is something Chris does multiple times daily, comprising of short 3-10 minute video clips he records from reader questions in his live chat or email inbox, he spends time answering these over video helping people out.

The clips are short, relevant, interesting, and full of knowledge. Chris is a joy to watch in front of the camera and his humerous personality makes for an interesting show. Chris inspired me to start my personal community video show, The Glenn Wolsey Show. (iTunes).

Inside Aperture

As an avid amatuer photographer who loves to get out in the field and shoot, one aspect of photography I find myself struggling through in lack of enthusiasm is post production..that was until I discovered Aperture, Apple’s one stop application for “after the shoot.”

The Inside Aperture podcast is produced by the guys from the Inside Aperture blog over at O’Reilly Media. The infrequent and un-scheduled show has had interviews with pro photographers, and conversations from within the Apple HQ with their Aperture product manager, Joe Schorr.

The Inside Aperture podcast is highly recommended to anyone who runs Aperture, I’m always left with a feeling of inspiration as the show winds down.

Additionally…

Notably, a few other favorites inside iTunes include Diggnation, The MacApper Podcast, The Nick Danforth Show, and This Week In Tech.

What podcasts or video shows do you enjoy or subscribe to?

Comments

  1. #1

    Jonathan → www.techgeeklife.com

    As I just got my mac I was resubscribing to all my podcasts in iTunes and have managed to narrow it down a select few:

    Windows Weekly
    This Week in Tech
    MacBreak Weekly
    Net@Nite
    Major Nelson Radio
    ExtraLife Radio
    GeekBrief TV
    Typical Mac User Podcast

    There used to be a lot more and I’m sure that the list will grow

  2. #2

    ob81 → www.ob81.com

    I just recently got into podcasting when you started your show. I check out:
    TechSnark
    GleenWolsey
    Nerd News Radio

  3. #3

    Indraneel → indraneel.thepurohits.net

    I like MBW, TWiT, Diggnation, and The Totally Rad Show.

    Glenn, your YouTube and iTunes links (to your show) are mixed up.

  4. #4

    Vitaliy → vitaliy.info

    bsdtalk, Buzz Out Loud, Diggnation, MacBreak Weekly, MacCast, and Real Time with Bill Maher. Will go check out The Talk Show, thanks!

  5. #5

    Ondra Soukup

    So…why aren’t you subscribed to yourself :P ?

  6. #6

    peroty → arcticpalace.org/journal

    MacBreak Weekly is fantastic. If you’re of the geekier persuasion, MacBreak Tech is fantastic. It’s a relatively new show and it’s always interesting.

    Geekson is a great, long cast on all things geeky.
    Xbox360fanboy’s podcast is fun as well, I saw Major Nelson already mentioned and I second that.

    In addition to everything from the TWiT network.

  7. #7

    Michael De Leon → projectspurs.com/podcast

    I listen to a bunch of the TwiT.TV podcasts including

    MBW, TwiT, The Tech Guy, Net at Nite, Daily Giz Wiz and Security Now.

    I’m also subscribed to This Week in Media, Gear Media Tech, MacBreak, MacBreak Tech, Diggnation, Systm, InDigital, Pixel Perfect, Webnation, Hak.5, GeekBrief TV, iLife Zone, ESPN Daily Dish, Pardon The Interruption (ESPN), Outsider Radio, The Basketball Jones, PodSqod, Podholes, The Point and a few of my friends podcasts including the Morning BrewCast, Rental Reviews, and since I edit and produce my podcast, you can say I listen to The Spurscast as well.

    I know thats a lot of podcasts, but I’ve been podcasting myself for over two years, organized a podcamp, am an organizer of a podcasting meetup group and I’m about to get into Pro Podcast Consulting and Production so podcasts are a passion of mine. Plus I’m a graphic designer by day and usually have my earbuds in listening to podcasts all day except for my lunch break.

  8. #8

    Ken → macosken.com

    What? Nobody listens to the daily Mac news podcast Mac OS Ken?

    Shameless self promotion to be sure.

    Used to listen to the Morning Brew Cast. Still listen to Coverville, Harry Shearer’s Le Show, and Rob Black and Your Money.

  9. #9

    shadownight → thomasgvl.50webs.com

    Were you in a hurry when you wrote that post? ;)
    “…explored. Nn the most recent…” In
    “…over at O’rielly Media…” O’Reilly
    “… who runs APerture, I’m…” Aperture

    Typos aside, my listening habits are split between two categories: tech and Mac talk shows, and podcast novels. Anyone who never has listened to podcast novels has to try it; see my overview and suggestions here: http://tinyurl.com/2c59ry So…

    Tech shows:
    MacBreak Weekly
    TWiT
    Macworld Podcasts (macworld.com/podcasts)
    Webnation (with Amber MacArthur) (video) (iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/2ge53c )
    David Pogue’s weekly NYT videos (iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/2hq3ly )

    Podcast novels (most of those are completed, so you can listen to everything when you like)
    7th Son trilogy http://jchutchins.net
    Scott Sigler’s novels: Earthcore, Ancestor and Infection at Podiobooks.com
    One Among the Sleepless http://oneamongthesleepless.com
    Republic http://tinyurl.com/2blmlp

  10. #10

    Glenn Wolsey → www.glennwolsey.com

    I like MBW, TWiT, Diggnation, and The Totally Rad Show.

    Glenn, your YouTube and iTunes links (to your show) are mixed up.

    Sorted out the links, thanks for pointing that out!

    So…why aren’t you subscribed to yourself :P ?

    Oh I am Ondra, I’m just not my own favorite person. ;-)

    Were you in a hurry when you wrote that post? ;)
    “…explored. Nn the most recent…” In
    “…over at O’rielly Media…” O’Reilly
    “… who runs APerture, I’m…” Aperture

    Wow! I think I need to hire a copy editor, those errors were appalling - won’t be happening again. Thanks for pointing them out :-)

  11. #11

    Tim → www.funkeemunkeeland.com

    I have had to dump some lately. I got greedy and had too many wasting space. The ones that made the cut:

    TWiT
    MacBreak Weekly
    This American Life
    Smodcast (kevin smith’s hilarious ramble)
    Diggnation

    Video stuff:
    Tikki Bar
    The Merlin Show

    I am going to have to check out The Talk Show

  12. #12

    LOR3N → www.r3fresh.com

    I am a big fan of podcasts. I like Macbreak Weekly, TWiT, The Totally Rad Show, Doogtoon’s Weekly Wrapup, Net@nite and sometimes DIggnation.

  13. #13

    PS Ennigard

    These are my favorite.
    http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com/
    http://www.twit.tv/ttg
    http://www.twit.tv/mbw
    http://www.macnotables.com/wordpress/
    http://www.themaccore.com/

  14. #14

    Chris Thomson → christhomsonblog.com

    I’m a big podcast fan, however, lately I haven’t gotten much of a chance to listen to many. I have the time, I just choose not to listen to podcasts. I’m really not sure why. I used to love listening to podcasts. I’m subscribed to about 30 podcasts, I enjoy some a LOT, and others not so much, meh… Maybe I’ll get back into listening to podcasts when I get an iPod touch :-)

  15. #15

    Allan

    I don’t have much time to watch video podcasts, but I usually listen to Diggnation, The Digg Reel and Glenn Wolsey’s podcasts..

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