Podcasting Is Just Really Cool
I am making a habit of catching on late on cool things…first the blog, now I caught on with podcasting. The idea of podcasting (by a fellow dutchmen, Adam Curry) is really cool, better than I thought it would be. Sure it was intended first for music and shows and stuff, but last week I stumbled on a random weblog entry (through the excellent Tao of Mac blog) about handing out CDs of Paul Graham’s speech about Great Hackers.
Being able to hear Paul Graham live is good, even though I had already read most of the transcript and he is not such a great public speaker. But still, it is nice to hear it told as it was meant to be told.
Then I went on and search ITConversations.com for some more interesting interviews and speeches. So far I’ve been listening to Kent Beck on Developer Testing (and accountability), an interview with Joel Spolsky and most inspiring so far is this two hour long speech by Steve Wozniak.
Hearing him talk about just what he’s wants to talk about is very inspiring and makes trainrides a lot more interesting. I can really recommend podcasts to everyone, it’s really worth all the money you pay for a small MP3 player.