Geek Podcasts
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 2:38 pm
Folks have asked about where to find geek/scifi/gaming/whatever podcasts. There's a new web site that's trying to pull a bunch of them together, and features most of the big scifi podcasts ("big" being a relative term of course).
It's the "Science Fiction Podcast Network" and you can check it out at:
http://www.tsfpn.com/
It's being organized by Michael Stackpole. My "Nuketown Radio Active" podcast received an invite while I was in Idaho, but I only got around to joining today. Nuketown should be up on the site by the end of the week, or thereabouts.
As far as how to listen to them ... you've got a few options. The most direct thing is to just go to the member web site and download the MP3 manually. That's work though, so what you really want to do is subscribe using a podcast aggregator.
You've got a few options there. iTunes 4.9 (http://www.apple.com/itunes/) runs under Mac and Windows, is free, and seems to do a pretty good job (though I've only just started experimenting with it.
The other option on the Windows side is iPodder Lemon (http://ipodder.sourceforge.net/index.php), which is free and open source. On the Mac side, you've got iPodderX (http://www.ipodderx.com) which has a share ware and commerical version.
And as always, you don't need an iPod to listen to any of this -- once you've gotten the files, you can listen to them however you like, since they're almost all mp3 files.
Ken
It's the "Science Fiction Podcast Network" and you can check it out at:
http://www.tsfpn.com/
It's being organized by Michael Stackpole. My "Nuketown Radio Active" podcast received an invite while I was in Idaho, but I only got around to joining today. Nuketown should be up on the site by the end of the week, or thereabouts.
As far as how to listen to them ... you've got a few options. The most direct thing is to just go to the member web site and download the MP3 manually. That's work though, so what you really want to do is subscribe using a podcast aggregator.
You've got a few options there. iTunes 4.9 (http://www.apple.com/itunes/) runs under Mac and Windows, is free, and seems to do a pretty good job (though I've only just started experimenting with it.
The other option on the Windows side is iPodder Lemon (http://ipodder.sourceforge.net/index.php), which is free and open source. On the Mac side, you've got iPodderX (http://www.ipodderx.com) which has a share ware and commerical version.
And as always, you don't need an iPod to listen to any of this -- once you've gotten the files, you can listen to them however you like, since they're almost all mp3 files.
Ken