I am on the lookout for the best tech news podcast which makes my life complete and takes me for good walks either in Budapest or Mountain View or anywhere I go. Not only that, but I want to get minimum the same intelligence as I get from Last.fm / Pandora. If any of you know such a service, share it here and add your reviews too.
Mefeedia.com tech podcast network
Tech news podcast: learn from me
Yep, here goes the data, dive into the data with great analytics tools and learn from me and learn from other people with similar preferences as me (no, not my friends, I need like-minded people as a base). This minimal AI is such a natural expectation these days - I wonder why I still haven’t stumbled upon such a service – am I flying blind?
Ars Technica, according to E-consultancy, will add an Ars Technica premier package to subscribers (really cheap fee – $50/year or $30/bi-annually).
But will it let me listen to articles? (currently I can print, share, leave a comment, and that’s it – why not listen to it?). What about the big tech news blogs, like TechCrunch, Reddit, RWW, Engadget, GigaOM, Search Engine Land, Diggnation etc.? Let’s be more demanding. Why not add a top notch customizable daily tech news podcast? I feel that I avoid more and more pdfs, and pixels – my eyes are glued to some kind of monitor almost all day long. But it’s so good to get away from the laptop for a walk and listen to great podcasts (like Chris Anderson’s FREE) and stay in the loop without feeling lagging behind. (Needless to say, there are some posts that do not easily lend themselves turned into mere audio content – like product demos, visual focused info, etc.). The starting point is have a vast number of tech podcasts available to choose from – from David Pogue’s video podcasts through Jeffrey Powers’ Geekazine to the Daily Search podcast.
I would definitely pay for the best tech news podcast, which for me means that it could
a, granularly learn from my ratings like pandora or last.fm – and from fellow listeners’ ratings (rating is behavioral based, i.e. counted by partial and complete listenings too, not just clicking on a star)
b, offer a summary of the article turned into podcast, and let me decide if I wish to listen to the whole article or just the intro (see: feed reader)
c, share instantly (email, digg, tweet, linkedin what have you, separately or in bulk)
d, bookmark instantly (make my saved podcasts available for later use, delayed sharing, both as a podcast and as an article)
e, socialize – I wish to know other guys who are overlapping with my listening history so much that it would be a shame not to get to know them
f, check out my listening history – I want to follow what I listened to and when, like a diary, dear diary. Just like I have the option and freedom to check my personal web search history (never mind that I hardly ever check my search history, it makes me FEEL good that I can check it anytime. Plus I wish to use my own data for cognitive search studies, so it will evidently make this feature more visited)
g, monetization – option for getting the podcast without ads at a higher price and making a more affordable package with ‘radio’ ads. Let me choose from various models.
h, if I want to loosen up the tech news with some of my favorite songs, let me do that. Or with other news. :) (yeah, I need a radio, I hear you)
i, google: message to googleplex – please make the audio contents more searchable and featured in the search results pages
etc.
If this is included in the new Ars Technica, the premier site optimization with an off-online feature, I will be paying for the premier content – it is not the ‘paid content’ that is driving people away, but not getting what you need.
Tech Podcasts: read more about the best tech podcasts
- Top 40 tech podcasts list on netmag.co.uk (2007)
- 10 best technology podcasts by techrepublic (2008)
- Techpodcasts.com: Tech Podcast Network is a community supported web site