Thing #22 -- Podcasts

Akin to video hosting sites such as YouTube, Podcasts enable people to share their views and/or expertise with the online world. It was difficult for me to find a podcast that worked on my computer, likely because I'm missing some linking software but I was able to find some interesting sites. 'Great Books' is a site that reads a chapter a day of a classic or famous novel. I linked to the reading of Chapter 2 of 'The Scarlet Letter.' It did work, and was very clear. The SirsiDynix Institute has a podcast for library professional development. It will be easy to keep up with these as they are now in my list of rss feeds on bloglines. The directories are not all that well indexed; I had to scroll a lot and do a lot of rabbit trails to find anything that interested me. The Podcast.net worked a little better for me than the PodcastAlley.com site. And again I tried Yahoo and found it too busy with advertising to bother with. But I found the Great Books site under Arts, then Books and Poetry, then scrolling down to # 26 on the list in Podcasts. What's nice is I don't actually have to download anything, I can click on the button to 'listen now' and it works.