Sunday, October 08, 2006
Podcast, Netcast, Whatevercast
The internet is pretty cool. Everything is out there. Now tv is out there.
I don't watch a lot of tv. Perhaps I do, but I don't think I do at least. I do watch a lot of sports, but outside of that, not much. But I did like the old TechTV before it was bought by G4. Then all the old TechTV shows were canceled it really left a big void in tech programming.
Lucky for me most of the people who where on TechTV now have new shows on the internet. So with iTunes I just subscribe to their feeds and watched them whenever I want. It's like Tivo's watch it when you want is built into the delivery method. It's great. Now I really do wish there was a good alternative to iTunes to get all my feeds. But right now there just doesn't seem to be anything that does it as well. I really don't understand why Microsoft doesn't build in rss feed subscriptions to Media Player. It's not going away so why not support it?
Here's a list of the video podcasts I subscibe to. I'll let you in on the audio only shows in the future.
Now I know I have a lot of tech shows that seem to cover the same subjects, but they all come out on different days of the week so they end up not overlapping very much. Diggnation is a Revision3 production. Rev3 has just relaunched their site with more shows and hopefully more frequent updates. Gamespot.com also has a few other shows. Button Mashing is a gaming game show. So far it's been down right goofy and not really up to snuff with On The Spot. Their tournament broadcasts are very good though. They've aired Battlefield 2, Counter-Strike Source and some other different games. Good stuff, check it out. ¶ 9:43:00 AM
I don't watch a lot of tv. Perhaps I do, but I don't think I do at least. I do watch a lot of sports, but outside of that, not much. But I did like the old TechTV before it was bought by G4. Then all the old TechTV shows were canceled it really left a big void in tech programming.
Lucky for me most of the people who where on TechTV now have new shows on the internet. So with iTunes I just subscribe to their feeds and watched them whenever I want. It's like Tivo's watch it when you want is built into the delivery method. It's great. Now I really do wish there was a good alternative to iTunes to get all my feeds. But right now there just doesn't seem to be anything that does it as well. I really don't understand why Microsoft doesn't build in rss feed subscriptions to Media Player. It's not going away so why not support it?
Here's a list of the video podcasts I subscibe to. I'll let you in on the audio only shows in the future.
- Diggnation - Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose wax poetic about the news of the week from digg.com This was the first show I started watching on the web.
- The 1UP Show - A great show with great style. It's the 1UP.com staff talking about the news of the week in games, plus a little extra touchy feely moments from the cast.
- Cranky Geeks - John C. Dvorak and guests pretty much moan and groan about the tech news of the week. Pretty funny and just goes to show it's not all young whipper-snappers into tech news.
- dl.tv - Patrick Norton and Robert Heron do another tech news of the week show. Patrick used to be on the TechTV show the Screen Savers and it's cool to see him on screen again.
- On The Spot - Gamespot.com's weekly gaming news show. This one is very cool because it's got a nice formal setup. They'll have game developers bring in games to demo them on the show before they're released. They do a lot of specials for the trade shows and other events.
Now I know I have a lot of tech shows that seem to cover the same subjects, but they all come out on different days of the week so they end up not overlapping very much. Diggnation is a Revision3 production. Rev3 has just relaunched their site with more shows and hopefully more frequent updates. Gamespot.com also has a few other shows. Button Mashing is a gaming game show. So far it's been down right goofy and not really up to snuff with On The Spot. Their tournament broadcasts are very good though. They've aired Battlefield 2, Counter-Strike Source and some other different games. Good stuff, check it out. ¶ 9:43:00 AM
