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Re: Podcasts for Hackers

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Post by Derbasti »

biafra wrote: post #29

2600's Off the Hook - http://www.2600.com/offthehook/ And there are several very good german podcasts: Chaosradio - http://chaosradio.ccc.de/ Chaosradio Express (CRE) - http://cre.fm/ mobilemacs - http://mobilemacs.de/

Funny how German podcasters pretty much unanimously decided not to do ads or sponsoring while american podcasts are often littered with ads to the point where it gets unbearable.

Compare and contrast the TWiT network or 5by5 with Tim Pritlove or BitsUndSo

Re: Podcasts for Hackers

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Post by Radix »

Derbasti wrote: post #43
biafra wrote: post #29

2600's Off the Hook - http://www.2600.com/offthehook/ And there are several very good german podcasts: Chaosradio - http://chaosradio.ccc.de/ Chaosradio Express (CRE) - http://cre.fm/ mobilemacs - http://mobilemacs.de/

Funny how German podcasters pretty much unanimously decided not to do ads or sponsoring while american podcasts are often littered with ads to the point where it gets unbearable. Compare and contrast the TWiT network or 5by5 with Tim Pritlove or BitsUndSo

Isn't the TWiT network a bit of a special case with Leo Laporte trying to monetize and self produce the same niche of programming he was doing with the Screen Savers back on ZDTV? There isn't much of a choice when the point of the screen casts are that they should be your job. Also it helps that we're conditioned to see adverts everywhere.

Re: Podcasts for Hackers

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Post by leot »

alain94040 wrote: post #17

It may be time to start a news podcast, the "hacker new podcast", where 3 of the top HN users discuss the day's headlines and comments on HN - 5 minutes/day. Think of it as a summary of HN for HN fans who don't have the time to read all the comments.

Slate's Gabfests would probably be a good model for these. They're really entertaining to listen to, and very insightful.

They've never discussed it explicitly, but their "formula" seems to include:

- usually at most three main topics (occasionally more)

- a closing bit of silliness

- they make sure everyone has had time to prepare something to say on the topics to-be-discussed

- each person has a computer handy (but I never hear anyone typing, which is nice)

- they have some facility for including external audio (for discussion, e.g., music or ads)

- one person leads the discussion, trying to keep people on topic, and making sure that a transition happens to the next one at the right time

- keep the podcast between 45 and 60 minutes, fairly consistently

- they release it at a regular time

- it's weekly, and comes out at a regular time

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