23 Things Assignment #7

Podcasting

I finally had a reason to get around to listening to Mugglecast. When you go to the recommended list site for podcasts, on the right sidebar is a list of the TopTen Podcasts, and, sure enough, Mugglecast was there. It's broadcast by the people behind Mugglenet.com, one of the top Harry Potter fan websites out there.

So I sat at my desk for a little listen... 90 minutes! The podcast is 90 minutes long. So, basically, I listened to the intro, the ads and the opening theme and a few bits of the commentators gasping over the Dumbledore Revelation. I will go back to this.

I tried a few more of the podcast recommendations.
Cinema Slave was rather interesting. I did love the ad for a Doctor Who podcast. It was a good intro to the kinds of special effects this media supports. This podcaster had sound clips of the movie he was reviewing and promised trailers and news updates. Again, it was quite long so I only listened for a short while.

Anime World Order's description sounded good but features far too many obscure movies and rather amatuerish interviews with creators to be too interesting.

When I was adding the podcasts to the Bloglines Feeds, I looked into my ComiPress Manga News RSS to discover there was a brand new MangaCast. I subscribed but that cast was not supported by our networks, needing more DIVx decoding and such or subscriptions to i-Tunes or its ilk.

One thing I discovered on this blocked podcast was that podcasts post text scripts of the contents, maybe to help people reviewing, quoting or just having a had time understanding the dialogue.