Podcasts

Today I worked on the podcast things as I was listening to "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" on NPR, so I decided to start looking for podcats there. I've always thought there website was easy to naviagte, as is finding the information you're searching for. They have a geat page that organizes their many podcasts by subject. You can also create custom podcasts by searching the library by keyword. They've developed a an advanced keyword search query API that searches over 250,000 broadcast segments you can incorporate into a custom podcast.

But so many are readily available to sign up for through an RSS feed, that I chose these two: NPR: Books Podcast that has NPR book reviews, news and author interviews --"for people who love to read" from the best of Morning Edition, All Things Considered and other NPR programs. It updates on Mondays and Thursdays and runs for about 20 minutes.

The other is the Nancy Pearl Book Reviews Podcast from member station KUOW. Here is their description of the podcast: Nancy Pearl is a librarian with a love of books so strong it has been officially classified as lust. No matter the mood, moment or reason, she can recommend the perfect literary companion. Author of two books, Book Lust and More Book Lust, Nancy joins us every Monday on Sound Focus to share the most recent books to tickle her fancy. From thrillers to memoirs, international fiction to overlooked authors and even young adult novels, she plays matchmaker for the bibliophile in all of us.

Here is the link to NPR's podcast page: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php

(Thing #10)