This American Life is pretty much the gold standard in podcasts.
They are hurting for money: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2010/05/a-message-from-...
It's public radio.Asking for money is pretty much the norm.
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Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Podcast
#132Obviously depends on your interests. I do a video & podcast every week that covers startup lessons, venture capital advice and deals funded for the week. It's called This Week in Venture Capital. http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-venture-capital/ (there are links to there to the free iTunes download. Also, This Week in Startups is great because it profiles startup CEOs and talks about the week's news. Hosted by Jason…
What's the connection between the "This Week In" (thisweekin.com) network and the assorted shows on the TWiT (twit.tv) network?
There is no connection between thisweekin.com and TWIT, other than they share a common naming convention.
For the record, I got permission from Leo to buy and use the domain. however, since we launch 17 shows in under six months he is a little upset with me.
Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Podcast
#133I really like Drunk and Retired. It's done by Michael Cote at Redmonk and Charles Lowell at the Frontside. Can get a little offtopic sometimes (like tangents about Austin traffic) but in general really funny.
Here's one about sandboxed javascript...
Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Podcast
#134Hardcore History is the best podcast by far (even if you are not a history buff) -> http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh
Others on my list include:
This Week In Startups -> http://thisweekinstartups.com/
Mixergy -> http://mixergy.com
Prairiecast -> http://prairiecast.com
Smodcast -> http://smodcast.com/main.html
Tell Em Steve Dave -> http://smodcast.com/stevedave/index.html
Common Sense -> http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/csarchive
Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Podcast
#135Has nothing to do with hacking, code, politics, making yourself smarter etc, but is good for a laugh. Smodcast by Kevin Smith is pretty awesome. http://www.smodcast.com/
Smodcast is fantastic... so is Tell Em Steve Dave
Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Podcast
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was going to write a perl script to download all these but after I discovered that the naming scheme wasn't consistent throughout every file, I gave up and installed iTunes to download everything. I then promptly removed all hundreds of megabytes of it. An advantage is the naming scheme is pretty good; nothing that a novice shell-scripter can't fix.
I don't understand why you "removed all hundreds of megabytes of it". At any rate, this is a simple python script to list all mp3 files in those posts (I like to use wget do do the actual downloading): http://pastebin.com/cbhEgt6E It uses the cool lxml library: http://codespeak.net/lxml/ (I use something similar to download all posts of a blog I want to read offline on my kindle).
I then promptly removed all hundreds of megabytes of it.
I think he was referring to Itunes.
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#137THE BEST PODCASTS http://channeldvorak.com/shows
I listen to his tech5 and crankygeeks podcast, but don't bother with the link above. It brings up a page about half obscured with what is probably a black TV. Why bother putting up a website where the content is obscured? Maybe the slow people who browse with javascript on see something else.
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#138The Lifestyle Business Podcast is an absolutely awesome podcast about modern business. The content is so valuable that they decided to take payments for the first 30 episodes, but it's so worth it! http://www.lifestylebusinesspodcast.com/
hehe thanks for the shout out KrisofferR! Truth is our justification for charging for the first 30 episodes is to give show supporters an opportunity to help us pay for our audio editor's/virtual assistant fees which helps us produce new shows faster. Thanks for listening :)
Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Podcast
#139I run a podcast about cognitive science you may enjoy: http://cogscast.ca
Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Podcast
#140Love this thread found some new podcasts I haven't heard of before. Ever since I started my own business podcasts have taken over completely from movies and tv as my primary source of entertainment. Here are my favorites:
1) The Adam Carolla Podcast - Its not heavy material (this is my daily candy entertainment) but I marvel at how well Adam communicates and improvs-- he's been doing radio for over 10 years and he's the most consistently funny improv guy I've ever heard-- he constructs some pretty complicated comic maneuvers in real time, like call-backs and alliterative rhymes and stuff... anyway the guy is a mench
2) This Week in Start-Ups - I think @jason 's podcast is the currently the best consistently produced business related entertainment on the web (second is now defunct UK version of Kitchen Nightmares by Gordon Ramsay, watch out you might get addicted) sometimes interview podcasts can frustrate you with their non-sequitor randomness but this show involves experienced high-level tech entrepreneurs in pitch reviews, business advice, and news commentary. There are also some pretty awesome narratives to the show, like Jason getting in random fights, confronting celebrities, calling out other entrepreneurs, and starting businesses on the show. GREAT stuff.
3)Fresh Air - The most entertaining and insightful interview podcast I've come across. Terry Gross interviews people who do interesting shaz and she asks really damn good questions.
4)Mixergy - Andrew Warners show is like entrepreneurial popcorn, its fun to hear what other folks are up to. Andrew pretty much seems like the nicest guy ever and is really good at pulling out interesting stories from his guests.
5)This American Life - Finds SUPER interesting stories, tells them awesomely, and from time to time if you are alone in your car you might pop out a tear or two. Very pro.
6)Internet Business Mastery - The content might be a little beginner level form many HN users, but if you are just getting started marketing an internet based business, these guys have some really professionally produced episodes (100 now) that walk you through every single aspect of setting up a blog based marketing type business. Not much start up or tech info, but lots of good mindset and basic business 101 stuff. This really helped me out when I was making the transition to quit my job.