Podcasts R Us

I love podcasts. Podcasts with video are even better. Language learning, photoshop techniques, travel tips, audiobooks in the public domain, my favorite bands. Oh yeah, and all for just a little bit of memory on my computer. Everyone should join the podcast generation. Especially because you can control the content you listen to. It's great---flipping the channels on your t.v. and realizing there are 78 channels and nothing you want to watch? Perhaps there's a video podcast for free that will be up your alley...
I've found podcasts for a bunch of my friends, tailored to their personal interests in just a few minutes of scroll through the iTunes list, and yes, there are many more podcasts that exist than those indexed there. Go ye and multiply your casts. ;)

BTW, I know there's been a lot of disgruntled talk over Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2006. Well, you can probably guess where I fall on that list. As a beginning professional in the field of librarianship, I see this trend every day. Social software and tagging, blogging, user-centered design, it all revolves around the consumer of the resources folks. That consumer is all of us. I think the cover probably cost them more to print than just opting for a photo of their "famous" person year to year. I'd bet that reflective surface bumped up the printing costs a bit. So, in short, cut Time a break, I'm sure by the end of aught seven, they'll have had enough time to weigh candidates and as Steven Colbert pointed out maybe they'll pick "Us" or "We" or "the World".