Friday, December 29, 2006

I love podcasts!!

Kate's librarian friend, Anna, most recently blogged six top six lists for 2006. I liked the idea. (It was her first list that prompted me to think about mine!) I don't know that I can do six lists in one post, but I can start one list here, and find time over the next few days to get a few more lists.

So, without further ado, my first top six list for 2006. PODCASTS!! I LOVE podcasts. I have blogged about my iPod before. I only got into podcasts about a year ago, but have become a junkie! I have about 50 podcasts listed in my iTunes, and only seven of those are podcasts to which I don't regularly subscribe. Now, I realize that I will never, ever, humanly be able to listen to everything that I've downloaded ... but I like the idea of each of them, and maybe someday when I'm tired of driving through a flat place like Kansas, I'll knock a good bunch of them off. :-)

My top six podcasts for 2006 are as follows:
  • Proclaim! - the speaker is my former pastor, Dr. Michael Easley. He's brilliant!
  • The BBC's World Today Select - I got hooked on the breadth of the BBC's news presentation two summers ago when I was in Europe. I try to listen to the World Today Select broadcast every day. I love it!
  • The Alaska Podshow - purely fun! Scott Slone is an Anchorage native. He just talks for a half hour (mixed in with local music) about all things Alaska. He touches on everything from local craft shows, to uniquely Alaska things like the Iditarod, to spotlighting certain places within the state, to local politics.
  • Eye to Eye with Katie Couric - I just like the fact that they can put the entire length of an interview in a podcast, unlike on the evening news where they have lots of time constraints!
  • Mathgrad Podcast - okay, yeah, I have to have a math nerdy thing in there!
  • The Best of National Geographic Magazine - well, okay, this is just one, but I get about three or four of National Geographic's podcasts ... and would probably get more if I had video capabilities on my iPod ... National Geographic is a class act, no matter what they're doing.

    So ... look forward to five more top-six of 2006 lists coming up from me in the next few days. Thanks, Anna! :-)
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