Comments on: F1 Podcasts: Do You Listen To Them?

By: Where do we go from Here? | Sidepodcast : Your Weekly F1 Podcast

Where do we go from Here? | Sidepodcast : Your Weekly F1 Podcast — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:26:52 +0000

[...] and live shows. Last year we picked up some excellent constructive feedback from both doctorvee and BlogF1 on ways in which we could improve in 2008, and the result of those suggestions led to the creation [...]

By: Podcast Perspective | Sidepodcast : Your Weekly F1 Podcast

Podcast Perspective | Sidepodcast : Your Weekly F1 Podcast — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:22:17 +0000

[...] up was a post entitled ‘F1 Podcasts: Do You Listen To Them?‘ from BlogF1, which detailed Ollie’s thoughts about Formula 1 podcasting this year. He [...]

By: doctorvee » F1 season review: podcasts

doctorvee » F1 season review: podcasts — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:02:30 +0000

[...] next post was going to look at F1 websites. But this week Ollie White wrote a post about podcasts, so I thought I would move my post on podcasts to this [...]

By: F1 blogs review: Alonso vs Piquet and McLaren vs Renault — F1 blog from F1Fanatic

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:01:17 +0000

[...] F1 podcasts – do you listen to them? – A look at some of the top F1 MP3 shows. [...]

By: F1Punter

F1Punter — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:43:33 +0000

Rarely miss an episode of Sidepodcast, often listen to F1Minute, sometimes listen to NC & Grace and mean to listen to the 5Live one more than I actually do.

By: Oliver White

Oliver White — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:16:02 +0000

Thanks for the additions guys. Links added below.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:59:56 +0000

I listen to the excellent Sidepodcast while I do the washing up…

I did listen to the Guardian’s but wasn’t very keen, and I listen to Radio 5’s and Autosport, the latter being excellent but infrequent.

By: Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:41:27 +0000

The word-by-word search method for podcasts, while still not usable, is being researched. The main problem is teaching the software enough vocabulary for it to be practical, and getting to recognise the same word in different circumstances (particularly when the podcast itself is of bad quality).

I don’t listen to podcasts often, because I find it much easier to read than to listen to information. If I’m listening to a conversation, I have to make sure I’m not doing anything with words (including reading books, which I do a lot!) if I want to absorb what is being said. That said, people who are less strongly orientated towards reading would enjoy podcasts a lot – there are some very good ones out there.

I listen to some of Sidepodcast’s posts, but other than the only other one I listen to is F1 Reject’s podcast. They do have some strong opinions, but they are very funny.

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:36:39 +0000

Two of my favourites are Podcasting News which doesn't look that pretty but has some interesting podcasts in there, and also PodcastBlaster which is much better looking with plenty to choose from. But type "podcast directory" into Google and there are loads to have a browse through.

By: Oliver White

Oliver White — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:11:29 +0000

Thanks for dropping by Christine. Good to hear that the phone-line-message-thingy is free from a computer. And I didn’t realise podcasts utilised chapters; listening to your podcast on the site I never got to see that functionality.

I’ve grown to quite enjoy podcasts, but knowledge of them is, perhaps, not as readily available as it is for blogs and websites. I feel that if people knew more about them then the internet would be forever the richer. So thank you for amending my preconceived thoughts and false truths.

Care to drop in a few links to these directories you speak of?

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:05:46 +0000

Like some of your points here, Ollie, but I’d just like to clear up a few things.

A podcast doesn’t have to be an audio recording, we have a video podcast, and we also have a transcript feed with the pdfs on. Anything released on a regular basis with a feed attached is generally considered a podcast.

Finding podcasts isn’t always easy if you’re looking for a particular topic, such as F1, but there are heaps of podcast directories out there, and any astute podcast producer will be submitting their ‘cast to as many of them as possible. It’s worth checking out some of them, even if you’re avoiding the big one – iTunes.

The phone-line-message-thingy IS free if you call it from Skype, either via your computer or a Skype phone.

Lastly, chapters are absolutely possible in a podcast and we’ve been putting them in ours pretty much forever. We have two different versions of the show – mp3 and aac – with the AAC feed being the enhanced one, pictures and chapters included. Unfortunately, at the moment, iTunes and iPods are the only ways to see the chapters but the technology is out there, so it shouldn’t be long before everyone else catches up.