More and more these days I find just surfing the Internet to be a little dull on it’s own, I’m sure this is another symptom of the Attention Defecit Disorder that modern technology provides but I always find myself needing to do something else beyond just surfing. So what do I do? If I can get hold of one of my friends on Skype I’ll do that but sometimes if noone’s available or it’s too late at night to be talking I’ll just fire up TWiT Live and listen to Leo.
For those of you that don’t know, Leo Laporte is a broadcast journalist who has had a long career in radio and television (see his Wikipedia page for more info) and who now runs a succesful network of podcasts spearheaded by This Week in Tech (other podcasts available here). A while ago Leo started moving from podcasts to doing live video with his TWiT Live initiative allowing viewers to watch Leo live as he records his podcasts. The clever part is that it goes way beyond just watching a guy wearing headphones talking into a mic, Leo has the equipment to have double-screen video showing guests both in and out of the studio as well as graphics, lower thirds, screen casting and so on. All of this adds an extremely interesting dimension to the video and give me something else to do, although I will admit that I don’t always watch the video (and Stickam provide a facility to pause the video to save bandwidth).
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Do you listen to podcasts? Are there any you’d recommend?
Inspired by Alex.
I love podcasts, they’re the best thing to happen to broadcast media since the web became popular back in the 90s. On average, I’m quite confident that I spend more hours per week listening to podcasts than I do watching television.
I’m not sure where I come down on the podcast vs netcast debate but I agree that a new name is needed. One thing that I’d love to be more widely known is that you don’t need an iPod to play podcasts!
My favourites are definitely the TWiT netcasts from Leo Laporte and the gang, they’re professional and informative. I love the discussion from the panel of This Week in Tech but I really think that awards should be give to Security Now, that show has taught me so much about IT security that I’m somewhat of an expert amongst my peers (and I do work in IT).
Other favourites are the Video Game Show from the guys at Gamercast Network, it’s informal but the guys really know their stuff and the last episode was so funny I was practically in tears. Another hilarous but informative show is the MeanDawg Top 5, each week the guys pick their Top 5 movies in a given category and debate eachother’s choices.
Oh, and as a final word – you can’t forget Ask a Ninja.
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For me this was quite a big news item, I got into the DreamStation.cc Video Game Show podcast earlier in the year and have been an avid listener since. The podcast basically covers news, opinion and humour from the world of videogaming and was very well produced/edited compared to many other podcasts – basically think TWiT for gamers.
Well, now the host of the show Chris Paladino has secured a job working for Microsoft’s gaming community site Gamerscore Blog working in the community – a dream come true more-or-less. The rest of the crew have created a new podcasting network Gamercast Network to bring together a range of independent gaming podcasts, this could be good for gamers in general so watch this space.
As for DreamStation.cc, they’re continuing to podcast and will grow into their own style once more, I will definitely keep on listening and using the forums, if you’ve never tried I reccommend you have a look.
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So, after months of deliberating I’ve finally started a blog and welcome to it! I’m still not 100% sure what content I’m going to put out, it may be focused on IT, technology and gaming (as these are my specialist subjects), but may expand to include my other interests (music, movies, life in general).
Either way, I hope that if you read my blog that you take away something interesting – if not, feel free to get in touch and suggest how I could do better!
I heard about Vox from one of the fantastic TWiT podcasts hosted by Leo Laporte, and was kindly invited to join this service by JonHirt, a fellow member of the forums at DreamStation.cc. I look forward to exploring what is a relatively new facet of the Internet for me. I’m not a proper ‘old-school’ web user but I’ve been on for roughly a decade and the changes I’ve seen in such a short space of time have been staggering – I definitely buy-into the whole user-created-content idea and shall try to put something interesting back out there.
Cheers, thirtyfootscrew.
P.S. My name on Vox is also my Xbox Live gamertag so feel free to add me to your friends list.
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