#22 - Podcasts

After having some bad luck with the sites listed in the exercise, I discovered that PodcastAlley was the only one on the list that was operable, so I began exploring.

It appears that lots of libraries have podcasts! I saw podcasts from Arizona State University, MSU, Emory University, and others. Finally, I settled on one called "Library Geeks", and managed to add the podcast feed to my Bloglines account.

It amazed me how many podcasts there were out there! I also found another called Garden-Helper, and added it to my Bloglines account as well.

If you know how to search them, I could see podcasts valuable for use in teaching by podcasting tutorials, and I could see them being helpful as a news source on any given subject.

At first, I wasn't sure what I was doing, but with PodcastAlley, it was quite easy to figure out how to search and add the podcast links, though I could see a novice internet user becoming easily confused. I think this may be why I never dove into the world of podcasts before now. Now that I have, I think I will be exploring more often!

While searching, I did find something that interested me, though I was unable to subscribe to it. The searches said that David Lynch, (the famous director/artist/filmmaker/creative mind extraordinaire) podcasts the weather report daily from his home in Los Angeles. Though unable to add the podcast to my feed at Bloglines, I did get to hear today's weather. (Curious? Click here: http://www.davidlynch.com/dailyreport/)