Exercise 21: Podcasts and podcasting

Podcast.net is a tool that offers 18 broad categories and a modest interface. There is no way to request a particular time period or to request a podcast that occurs after a particular date. I did find some public domain podcasts by Jermaine Grigg’s on the topic “Secrets to playing piano by ear.” There are 21 lessons.

Podcast Alley offered the same series of podcasts by Mr. Grigg. The tool Podcast Alley was put together in an expeditious manner. The podcast titles come up in a numbered list. Is it consecutively numbered or is it some kind of undefined ranking? Is my vote going to affect the numbered list? After clicking on vote I did find out that “Rankings on this site is determined by the number of votes.” I found some ESOL podcast some for pay and some free. There were many, many grammatical or careless editing errors on this site.

Yahoo podcast beta is certainly aquamarine. “Sign in, sign up, help” this was a very welcoming invitation. “Find ’em” and “listen to ‘em” were the two categories we were offered. One begins to question which population demographic is Yahoo trying to target.

Podcasts or vodcasts or screencasts would be an ideal way to inform our user public. Buy me the hardware. I’m ready to rock and roll.