Vanderbrew

I received a new iPod for Christmas as my old 2nd gen device had a sketchy battery life and a tendency to forget where I was in an audiobook. Going from 10 gigs to 80 gigs is really a neat experience and it let me feel like I could branch out into more material than just carefully selected music and a smattering of audiobooks.

In the last few days I’ve been really listening to podcasts a lot. Any time I’m driving or washing dishes or doing some other monotonous task without my family around (since it’s rude to listen while there are others in the room) I tend to listen to an audio book. I’m trying to expand my tech horizons this year and tech podcasts seem like a good avenue to support that.

I’m currently subscribed to several of them including:

• Audible Ajax
• FLOSS Weekly
• No Fluff Just Stuff Podcast
• Thoughtworks - IT Matters Podcast

There’s been some great stuff from each of them and I’ve got plenty of listening material as I work through back catalogs.

Far and away, though, my favorite has been FLOSS Weekly. Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte have put together some really interesting and engaging sessions that discuss both technologies and languages that I’m familiar with as well as those that are knew to me. Each and every session I learn something new and I’ve started keeping a tech journal where I keep track of bits of info that caught my interest.

If you’re interested in tech podcasts with more of a Unix/WebDev/Open Source flavor check out FLOSS Weekly (not that it’s really weekly, that was just the original intent) or any of the others listed above and I think that you’ll find something interesting to listen to.

Any other tech (or other) podcasts that you listen to? I’d love to hear about them.

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