A half-year Podcasts July 20, '06 Comments [11] Posted in PowerShell | ASP.NET | TechEd | Speaking | XML | Gaming | Bugs | Tools Sponsored By When podcasting first came out I declared it totally lame in October of 2004. Actually I said: Sorry folks, PodCasting = Verbal Incontinence. I'm just not feeling it. You can't speak as fast as I read. I don't like it when you read your PowerPoints to me, and I REALLY don't like it when you ramble on. My commute isn't nearly long enough to slog through your PodCasts to find a nugget of goodness. If you blog, I can ignore it, or read it in any order. I can skip forward by, gasp, moving my eyes. [Me in 2004] Other folks had some good comments on Podcasting back in 2004: Greg Hughes - Podcasting - the good, the bad, the ugly Carl Franklin - In defense of podcasting as a medium Bernie Goldbach - Podcasts helps the little guy Then fifteen months later I started a Podcast. I had started using iTunes' Podcast Directory and re-listened to some episodes of DotNetRocks. Carl Franklin called me and convinced me that if there was a short Podcast that was densely packed with information, it might not suck. After I started the podcast, Martin Plante said podcasting still sucks, but later came around and said it sucked less. :) Others have also had nice things to say. I also found that listening to a Podcast in double speed was helpful. A half year later, we've hit 25 podcasts and had a blast doing it. I encourage you to check them out if you missed a topic you might be interested in. Also note that they all have PDF Transcripts if you prefer to read your podcasts. A Half Year of Podcasts 1/11/2005 - BlogJet, XBox 360, Twonky, and Other Magic 1/18/2006 - Emulation, Keyboards, Video Squishing and ASP.NET Oddities 1/25/2006 - Geotagging, Ubuntu, MacTel, XSLT Performance 2/1/2006 - Continuous Integration 2/8/2006 - The State of the Mono Project 2/15/2006 - The LinkSys WRT54GL Router 2/22/2006 - XML Tools and Technologies 3/1/2006 - Free Resources for .NET Developers 3/8/2006 - Debugging ASP.NET 3/15/2006 - Functional Testing Tools Roundup 3/22/2006 - Powershell Part I (MONAD) 4/7/2006 - Top Ten Utilities You Didn't Know You Had 4/12/2006 - CSI: Your Computer 4/19/2006 - Code Generation 4/25/2006 - Replacing Start|Run 5/3/2006 - Hanselminutiae #1 5/10/2006 - Syndication 5/23/2006 - Life Hacks 5/29/2006 - Torrent! Torrent! Torrent! 6/5/2006 - Office 2007 Preview 6/21/2006 - Live from TechEd 2006 6/28/2006 - Hanselminutiae #2 7/7/2006 - The Line of Scrummage 7/12/2006 - Windows PowerShell (MONAD) Part II 7/18/2006 - Scott's Essential Blogroll (for July 2006 at least) Anyway, thanks again to Carl for the hard work and idea. Thanks to Travis for the name. Thanks to the listeners for listening. As always, send me your topics! « Z at Seven Months - A look back | Blog Home | Time Saver - Using Watir as a Startup Pr... » About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. About Newsletter Sponsored By Hosting By