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		<title>Support your friendly neighborhood podcast.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love podcasts. Lately, I&#8217;ve been listening to more podcasts on my iPod than anything, and I find it&#8217;s a great way to keep up with new tech stories (not to mention a nice way to drown out the noise at work when I&#8217;m trying to concentrate). Some of my favorites are in the TWIT stable: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img align="left" src="http://www.scartech.net/wp-content/uploads/podcast-icon.jpg" alt="podcast-icon.jpg" />I love <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting">podcasts</a>. Lately, I&#8217;ve been listening to more podcasts on my iPod than anything, and I find it&#8217;s a great way to keep up with new tech stories (not to mention a nice way to drown out the noise at work when I&#8217;m trying to concentrate). Some of my favorites are in the <a href="http://twit.tv/">TWIT</a> stable: <a href="http://twit.tv/ww">Windows Weekly</a>, <a href="http://twit.tv/sn">Security Now</a> and <a href="http://twit.tv/mbw">MacBreak Weekly</a>. None are development centric, but that&#8217;s how I like it when I&#8217;m writing code. I want to listen to something that doesn&#8217;t require too much attention, but is still informative and entertaining. More than that though the primary reason I listen to the TWIT podcasts is Leo Laporte. I&#8217;ve been a big Leo fan since the days of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZDTV">ZDTV</a> and The Screen Savers. He always has a great take on tech issues. If you don&#8217;t currently listen to any of his podcasts, I strongly suggest checking them out. I don&#8217;t even own a Mac (as long as you don&#8217;t count that OSX VM I got downloaded off <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent">BitTorrent</a>), but I probably enjoy MBW most of all simply because it&#8217;s a fun show.</p>
<p>I bring all this up because as a fan of the shows, I think it&#8217;s important to give them support whenever possible. That can be done a couple different ways. Either by purchasing the products of their advertisers (and making sure they know that&#8217;s how you found them), buying TWIT gear, or by helping them directly. It seems like the big advertiser on the TWIT network is <a href="http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/homepage/AnonHome.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes">Audible</a>, but I&#8217;m not a huge fan of audio books. Instead, I&#8217;m going to make a donation to them this month. I&#8217;m not loaded, so it won&#8217;t anything spectacular. The great thing is that it doesn&#8217;t have to be. That&#8217;s where the online community comes in. Lots of people doing just a little can make a huge difference.</p>
<p>Some other podcasts that deserve some love are <a href="http://www.dotnetrocks.com/">.NET Rocks!</a> and <a href="http://www.hanselminutes.com/">Hanselminutes</a>. Both are excellent and cover developer related topics. I highly recommend both. I&#8217;m always looking for the next great podcast to subscribe to, so I would love some suggestions.</p>
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