My (Podcasting) Life is Complete

May 15th, 2007 | Filed under Blog, Podcasts

All of the NPR radio shows that I love are now officially podcasting including This American Life, On the Media, Car Talk and my personal fav for daily news NPR Shuffle. Some of these feeds have been around forever but in the last couple of weeks Car Talk jumped on board and This American Life started podcasting in the last 6 months or so and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it. Previously, I had Radiolover set up to record both of those shows off of the Chicago Public Radio stream, but now I can just add the NPR content to the many shows I subscribe to in NetNewsWire (or iTunes) and have them fall right into iTunes.

I love that all the great programming on NPR has finally embraced podcasting, and not looking at it as competition for their great local affiliate stations. It makes me want to become a member of Kansas Public Radio even more, if for no other reason than to support my local affiliate as a means of supporting the podcasts. Maybe on my next paycheck I’ll have to sign up?

Also Mike’s recent post about reading stuff reminds me that I need to update my consuming page with all the great blogs and podcasts I’m absorbing along with the music, movies and books that update automatically. I guess it is time for some spring cleaning in the ol’ RSS reader in order to sift out the greats feeds and to post them online. I’ll be posting that stuff sooner rather than later…I hope.