Note to accompany this post: the following may loosely be defined as "satire", depending on your location and level of inebriation. Your mileage may vary. It is not intended as a slight to those family members, friends and colleagues currently in, or preparing to join, the podcast community. It was developed in my head during an attempt to understand project risk evaluation formulae for my next Open University essay, and reflects nothing but my state of mind during that exercise. Really. I think podcasting’s the shiznit. Honestly.

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1/ Winer’s on line 1
A regular series in which “the blogfather” Dave Winer harangues a minor technology figure for a perceived slight, all via the miracle of voice-over-IP service Skype.

This episode: Dave calls up Adam Curry to argue about who really invented podcasting. Presented to the backbeat of Adam’s latest banging “podsafe” mashup: Jamiroquai’s Feels Just Like It Should vs The Gourds’ hilarious country version of Snoop Dogg’s Gangsta rap classic, Gin and Juice.
Download (67 minutes)

2/ BMW driving songs
Open road, mighty engine throbbing under the bonnet of your 3 Series? Or – fuck it – jam packed motorway filled with struggling, dog-tired commuters going too slow for your taste? Here’s the ultimate music collection to get your motor running, interspersed with advice from self-appointed advanced driver Will “madman” Cole, 23, who’s just left home and got his first company car. It’s Tailgate Tips to the mighty sounds of Meatloaf’s Bat out of Hell! Finger Technique Training so you can flash your headlamps aggressively to the building drum-led passion of Phil Collins’ In The Air Tonight! Fist Clenching Fun as you pump pump PUMP the horn of your Ultimate Driving Machine™  the microsecond after lights turn green, your senses honed by the soaring vocals of Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On. You utter, utter twat.
Download (120 minutes)

3/ Winer’s on line 2
In the latest part of this powerful series, “blogfather” Dave Winer harangues another minor technology figure for a perceived slight, via the miracle of voice-over IP service Skype.

This episode, Dave rings Register tech journalist Andrew Orlowski to take him to task over a semantic point in one of his stories. In a gripping fight from which no netizen really wants to see a victor, Orlowski unleashes a devastating – yet massively flawed when you consider the facts – argument in his defence! How will Dave react?
Download (23 minutes)

4/ Getting things done – my way!
Getting Things Done™ guru David Allen advocates a carefully researched system of folders, idea repositories and regular reviews to make sure you’re productive, unstressed and happy. In this groundbreaking podcast, part-time Nebraska IT developer Tyler Heffingtall reveals “all that stuff is a bit complex” and tells you how to organise your life using nothing more than two self-programmed Lotus Notes databases and layman’s knowledge of Fortran.
Download (15hrs 10mins – shareware - contains strong language)

5/ The blog show, with Bob Rafill
In our top-rated Podcast – yes, even before it’s been made available – uninspired podcaster your host Bob Rafill reads some of his favourite weblogs out loud. It’s a podcast that’s moved dozens, and brought praise from some of the biggest and brightest in the blogosphere. “Really amazing” – BoingBoing. “Badabing!” – Scripting.com. “This is the future of podcasting” – the New York Times. And don’t miss next week’s edition, where Bob reads the trackbacks and comments to all the posts he airs today!
Download (2hrs 45 minutes)

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