I keep talking to Becky about stuff I heard on various podcasts I listen to and she can’t keep them all straight. Here’s the rundown as of now:
| Podcast | Categories | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Accidental Tech Podcast | Tech | Marco Arment (Instapaper, The Magazine), John Siracusa (OS X reviews, all the podcasts), each had shows on 5by5 with Dan Benjamin, then they both quit and started a show about cars with their friend Casey Liss (Programmer dude everyone likes to say they’ve never heard of). The car shows kept devolving into tech wank, so they started this. Come for Siracusa, stay for Siracusa. End theme is a vicious earworm. |
| Ad hoc | Media | Tech people talk about media stuff. Infrequent show with a varying panel, but chaired by Guy English and Rene Ritchie. |
| Alan Watts Podcast | Philosophy | Bits from the infamous Buddhist’s lectures podcastified. |
| Back to Work | Tech | Dan Benjamin and Merlin Mann jawbone about comics, kids, movies, tech, and, oh yeah, productivity. So many private jokes. |
| Beneath Ceaseless Skies | Fiction | Weekly SF short story. |
| Bitsplitting | Tech, Interview | Developer Daniel Jalkut in long-form interviews with various tech notables. Currently on hiatus. |
| Bruno and the Professor | Politics | Two guys in Seattle chat about politics. The audio quality is frequently dreadful, but the content makes up for it. |
| CMD+Space | Tech, Interview | Brit Myke Hurley interviews various notable tech people |
| Core Intuition | Tech | Daniel Jalkut and Manton Reece discuss the news in tech-land and thier experience as developers. |
| Debug | Tech | Guy English and Rene Ritchie chat with tech folks individually and in groups about topics of interest. |
| Decode DC | Politics | Former NPR comentator Andrea Seabrook digs into the background behind political issues trying to explain why it is the way it is. |
| Developing Perspective | Tech | Underscore David Smith (FeedWrangler) dispenses 15 minutes of insight about Mac app development. |
| eco-logical | Sustainability, Interview | Seems to be on hiatus. Host architect Terry Phelan interviews folks about topics around sustainable building. |
| Escape Pod | Fiction, SF | Weekly SF short story. |
| Hanselminutes | Tech, Interview | Scott Hanselman interviews tech people. Leans more towards web and Windows than most of my other techy stuff which trends towards Mac and iOS. |
| The Hidden Almanac | Fiction, SF | Ursula Vernon makes up crazy shit and her hubby Kevin Sonney (as Reverend Mord) reads it. It’s a cross between Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac and Welcome to Night Vale filtered through Ursula’s quirky brain. |
| In Beta | Tech | In flux now, but was a conversation between programmer Gina Trapani and tech journalist Kevin Purdy about various techy topics. This one trends towards Android and open source. Gina and Kevin’s run on this show was one of my very favorite podcasts. Great interactions, and Kevin always cracks me up. |
| The Incomparable | Media | A neverending cast of random techie people (all connected through show host (and MacWorld editor (and denizen of my home town)) Jason Snell), talk about nerdy media, play D&D, enact radio plays, and generally have a good time. |
| IRL Talk | Media, Tech | Used to be Geek Friday but left 5by5 for reasons never explained and is now this. Jason Seifer and Faith Korpi talk about geeky stuff. |
| Just The Tip | Comedy | Lawyer (and tech spouse) Amy Jane Gruber and programmer Paul Kafasis snark entertainingly about stuff for 30 minutes. |
| Let's Make Mistakes | Design, Tech, Interview | Mule Design Studio pater familias and all around net curmudgeon Mike Monteiro and chirpy cheerful Jessie Char, both designers, chat with folks who have something to say about tech, design, San Francisco, and other things. |
| 99% Invisible | Design, Radio | Roman Mars hosts this wonderful examination of the design of our built environment. I love this show so much. |
| Planet Money | Radio | I subscribed to this because Roman Mars told me to and because their joint show about the commodities trading at the end of Trading Places was quite good. |
| PodCastle | Fiction, SF | Weekly Fantasy short story. |
| Radiolab from WNYC | Radio | Come for the production value, stay for having your mind blown repeatedly. Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich host this show that’s hard to describe, but is usually about science. |
| Screen Time | Media, Interview | Moisés Chiullan interviews notables and talks about screen-based media from movies to tv to games. |
| SF Crossing the Gulf | Media | SF people and physicists, Karen Burnham and Karen Lord have deep conversations about SF books. |
| SF Squeecast | Media, Interview | A pack of SF writers (often including Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan Maquire, and Cat Valente) convene with an SF writer guest to recommend stuff and torment their guest. |
| StarShipSofa | Interview, Fiction, SF | An SF story or two plus the occasional interview, science fact bit, or other related work. |
| Systematic | Tech, Interview | Brett Terpstra interviews a variety of people on tech and non-tech topics. Sometimes super nerdy, sometimes not. |
| The Talk Show With John Gruber | Tech, Interview | John Gruber (of uber Mac news blog Daring Fireball) has long rambling conversations with other Mac people. |
| Tea and Jeopardy | SF, Interview | Adorable-voiced Brit, Emma Newman has perilous conversations with science fiction folks. |
| TechHive's Clockwise | Tech | Jason Snell and Dan Moren host other TechHive editors in this 30-minute tech news opinion show. |
| Technical Difficulties | Tech | Gabe Weatherhead and Erik Hess. This used to be (and occasionally reverts to) an interview show called “Generational”. But in its current incarnation it’s a discussion of how to navigate some arena where the solution isn’t immediately obvious. They’ve talked about home network wiring and home music distribution, so stuff like that. |
| This American Life | Radio | The prototypical radio magazine show. It’s just consistently good. |
| Unprofessional | Language, Interview | Silver-tongued goofball Lex Friedman (formerly of Mac World (and now formerly of this podcast!)) and ascerbic yet strangely charming designer musician Dave Wiskus (Vesper, Airplane Mode) have inappropriate conversations with surprisingly well-known people. |
| Welcome to Night Vale | Fiction, SF | Lovecraftian horror through the eyes of a fictional (I hope!) community radio station in the town of Night Vale. |
| WTF with Marc Maron | Language, Interview | Comedian Marc Maron interviews everyone. I skip some episodes when the interviewee isn’t interesting to me, but when this show is good it’s very very good. |