Sunday Podcasts 2

James Newton-King — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:17:21 GMT

This American Life - Classifieds

This American Life is a fantastic weekly podcast about everyday aspects of life. Each week’s show has a theme and then a number of stories around that theme.

This episode is based on stories gathered from classified ads, all found from a single single newspaper on a single day. A man who posted an ad about a missing dog, a personnel ad to win back a lost love, and my favourite: assembling a disparate group of musicians from classified ads to form a band for one day only and record a song – Rocket Man.

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Hanselminutes – Visiting Fog Creek Software and Joel Spolsky

Scott Hanselman interviews Joel Spolsky about technology, business, blogging and shark jumping. I can’t say I agree with many of Spolsky’s opinions on programming (eww) but he has a good head for business and marketing.

While Fog Creek is most known for a project management tool called Fogbuz they also have created a remote desktop service called Copilot. A DVD I brought not long after I started my first software development job is a documentary about Copilot called Aardvark'd: Twelve Weeks with Geeks. Aardvark is a fun little movie about the software and the small group of interns who made it. Recommended.

Sunday Podcasts

James Newton-King — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:32:36 GMT

Hanselminutes - Mo Interviews Scott Hanselman

One of my highlights of TechEd NZ 2008 was meeting Scott Hanselman. Chatting about random techie things in the speakers room and working side by side to prepare our presentations was a lot of fun. Here Mo, Scott’s wife, interviews him about what it is like being The HanselMan.

Econtalk - Wales on Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a fantastic example of harnessing the cloud to collaboratively create something amazing. Jimmy Wales talks about what has made Wikipedia successful, dealing with conflict and how Wikipedia is a self managing entity.

Dungeons & Dragons Podcast – Penny Arcade Episode 1

The Penny Arcade guys are always funny and listening to them play D&D is hilarious. The first of episode of many.

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Sunday Podcasts 2

Sunday Podcasts