{"id":849,"date":"2015-07-18T06:54:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T06:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/77.104.180.154\/~andrewdo\/blog\/?p=849"},"modified":"2020-04-13T20:58:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T20:58:55","slug":"podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/18\/podcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’ve been listening to podcasts for what must be ten years or so, mainly on my hour-long commute to and from work. Although sometimes I listen to music on my journey, this is rare\u2014I usually reach for podcasts instead as there is so much knowledge to be gained from the recordings and it feels like a better use of time. Recently I’ve found myself in lots of conversations where I’ve been recommending specific podcasts and episodes to people and this made me think that it would be a good idea to jot some thoughts down here and share them more widely.<\/p>\n

I’m old-school in that I use iTunes to download my podcasts and then sync them on an irregular basis to my 160Gb iPod Classic. I assume that most Apple users today are using modern applications on their iPhone or iPod Touch such as Overcast<\/a>, Downcast<\/a>, Instacast<\/a> etc., however I have no idea how they manage to regularly get through more than a small handful of podcasts each week. I have nearly 1,000 unplayed episodes (20Gb worth!) and a lot of these I don’t want to skip\u2014I’ll just get to them when I get to them.<\/p>\n

My general listening process is to cycle through the different podcasts one episode at a time, i.e. listen to the oldest unplayed episode for podcast 1 and then going to the oldest unplayed episode for podcast 2 etc. This stops things getting ‘samey’ and makes sure that I’m covering all of the different feeds I want to hear. However, there are some podcasts that are either such good quality (e.g. Dan Carlin\u2019s Common Sense) or so time-sensitive (e.g. FT Banking Weekly) that it is better to catch up with all outstanding episodes before moving on.<\/p>\n

In the list below I have used a couple of tags:<\/p>\n