Sun, 16 Nov 2008
Podcasts
Yesterday I posted about the word 'podcast', and today I am going to post about podcasts I listen to.
The podcast I have been listening to for the longest is Filmspotting, which contains, to quote their website, "Movie reviews, interviews and top 5 lists with Adam Kempenaar and Matty Robinson". The typical structure includes two reviews or interviews a week, a listener feedback section and a top 5 to end the show. The reviews are either of new releases, festival films that the hosts have seen, or one of the films in a 'marathon'. From time to time, the co-hosts engage in a 'Filmspotting marathon', in which they review around six films by the same director, or from the same genre, or fitting some sort of theme and then award the films with various awards. The films included in marathons are normally those that Adam and Matty feel that they should have seen but haven't. Recent marathons have included the 'Classic Heist' marathon and the '70s Sci-Fi' marathon.
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is a podcast I've started listening to very recently. It gives a narrative view on events in history that are sometimes too remote for people to really identify with. Most recently has been a series of three episodes on the Punic wars, entitled "Punic Nightmares". I'm interested in history, though not really in an academic sense, so this podcast is ideal. I'm still on the look-out for other good history podcasts, so if you know of any then let me know.
podictionary is a podcast about words. Every week day, the host, Charles Hodgson, spends about four minutes talking about a word and its origins. As someone who likes words but doesn't really have the time to read a dictionary, this is great.
This Week In Django is, as the name suggests, a weekly podcast about Django. For those of you who don't know, Django is a web framework written in Python. If that hasn't cleared things up, you can read more here. I develop a few things in Django, but don't work with it full-time, so this helps me to keep abreast of what's happening in the Django world.
My name is Daniel Watkins, and I approve these podcasts.
Posted: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:37 | | Comments: 1