Four of My Favorite Podcasts

Here are some of my favorite podcast:

Is CIS106, We had the opportunity to create our own podcasts using Garage Band.

Here are some podcasts that I enjoy and follow on the web:

The Michael Baisden show at the www.baisden live.com carries an audio cast of the Michael Baisden Radio show as featured on the radio, without the commercial advertisements. The podcast includes snippets of old school R&B and “grown folks” music and conversation.  Various current controversial topics are discussed with interaction from the audience through call-ins and participation through commenting on facebook and his websites.   Regular guest appear periodically, who talk about health issues such as nutritional healing and sexually transmitted diseases.  He is also a promoter of entrepreneurs and small business.

I like this podcast for the same reasons that I like the radio show.  If I become interested in a topic that is being discussed, but do not get a chance to finish listening to it, because I usually listen in the car, I am able to look up the show and listen to the rest of it.  If there is information that I am interested in, it is still accessible at another time.  I find the show informative; I am interested in the topics and what the audience thinks about them. The presentation is light and often humorous and the guests are provocative. Some of these podcasts are available on i-tunes.

 American radio works is part of America Public radio is another of my favorite podcasts.  Podcasts may be accessed through their web site: http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/documentaries.php  and through i-tunes.  American public radio works, which airs on the radio features full length radio documentaries, of about 50 minutes in four areas: Economy, War and Conflict, Climate Change, and History. They also do a very good job of taking a purely audio medium “radio” and converting it into a visual form that will draw you in on its website.  The visuals promise an interesting podcast to listen to and the podcasts live up to the advertising.

I enjoy the American Radio works because of the breadth and depth of the coverage of the chosen topic during each podcast. The documentaries thoroughly cover the subject matter. Although they are quite long in length, they are broken up by music related to the topic.  Audio montages and archival audio is added to podcasts that are exploring historic topics for instance.

A third podcast favorite is “Goodie Bag” by Kirby Ferguson, available through i-tunes: http://itunes.apple.com/lk/podcast/goodie-bag/id268723028 and through vimeo: http://vimeo.com/1905874 . Kirby Ferguson is a filmmaker who does high quality (much better than youtube) video podcasts.  He speaks on several IT, graphic arts, social issue and film topics. His podcasts include a very creative yet gory battle of Macs versus PCs, and a missive on Trajan Roman fonts.

 

         I like  Kirby Ferguson’s podcasts because I find them fun, creative, insightful and enjoyable.  He has an irrelevant attitude but often makes some pretty relevant points.  I love his “everything is a remix” series.  He has the first  two parts  out that deal with music and film. This series is particularly relevant to the topics we are covering in class. 

 

 

          My fourth favorite is News and Notes, from npr radio. www.npr.org  .  My favorite show covered politics, analysis, interviews  with celebrities and politicians, sports, a feature about African current events, a “digital life” feature that analyzed current events concerning computers and technology, reporters’ and  blogger’s round tables.  News and Notes covered current events that African Americans were interested in from an African American perspective.

 

          I like the podcasts for the same reason why I liked the radio show.  It discussed issues that I am interested in, in a thorough intelligent manner. I am big fan of Fariya Chidea, Tony Cox and Tavis Smiley. Different perspectives were given; the topics such as reviews of the arts are still relevant, even now, though the show is no longer broadcasted. Classic interviews of people who I admire such as Alice Coltrane, Gordon Parks and other heroes both sung and unsung can be found in the archives.  Events that were current then give a historical perspective on what is happening now and it is also interesting to listen to speculation and predictions while knowing the outcome.