How can I keep learning on my 1.5 hr commute?

The FLOSS Weekly podcast is excellent http://twit.tv/FLOSS

This Week in Tech can be good - even if it is often dominated by talk about Twitter and Facebook.

For non tech podcasts I can also recommend:

- The History of Rome (http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/)

- 12 Byzantine Rulers (http://www.12byzantinerulers.com/)

However, for driving I find that nothing beats unabridged books from Audible - just finished "The Big Short".

The Moth podcasts are usually really good.

http://www.themoth.org/podcast

I used to have an hour commute back in the day and encountered the same situation. I finally ended up getting a "Learn To Speak German" audio series. Did that for a while and then just started downloading German news podcasts. Nothing like learning a language for a couple hours every day.

Yes. Very yes. Very, very yes.

I use audible.com. Started with a gold account, and jumped right to platinum. Been using it for more than a year, and I've been incredibly happy. The only complaint is that the site sometimes feels slow. But I'm not on it often. Usually just once a month to get my new books, though I've been buying books as well recently to fill in gaps.

Couple audiobooks with podcasts and you'll do fine. I like stuff from Twit.TV. And then the d6Generation does a good podcast, too.

I find the audiobooks and podcasts are great ways to handle not only the commute, but most mundane activities I need to partake in. Folding laundry, shopping for groceries, cleaning the house. Anything where I don't need to think, I'm usually listening to something.

The problem with the internet is that you can find endless sources of interesting new information that would be wonderful to learn. Unfortunately, unless you have some kind of weird memory talent, you probably forget most of what you hear and read. If you really want to remember something, you have to study it at more than one sitting. Your commute is perfect for that. While you drive to work, you can talk to yourself about whatever you learned last night, as if you were talking to a different person. Recite foreign language vocab lists, practice your grammar, summarize the last section of the book you're reading, or think of ways to learn the new Unix command you just learned.

Unfortunately, I only have a fifteen minute commute, so I can't personally vouch for what it's like to do this every day, but I've done it a few times when driving to other cities, and it seemed to help a lot.