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Pretty much my sole use for Yahoo Pipes these days is filtering out any mentions of "episode" or "podcast" from tech RSS feeds. Why does anyone spend 30+ minute

by bonaldi 14y ago

Pretty much my sole use for Yahoo Pipes these days is filtering out any mentions of "episode" or "podcast" from tech RSS feeds. Why does anyone spend 30+ minutes listening to a) recaps of a previous episode, b) padding and filler, just to get c) the bad delivery of a central idea that takes 4x as long as reading it? If these things had the production values or compelling continuous narratives of something like This American Life, I could see the point. But every time I listen to one, it's a blog post plus inane comments section, being read out by people with voices for typing. Such a waste of time when there is a sea of quality radio out there.

GuiA 14y ago
There are some good insights wrt iOS app development given on B&A that are elicited through the conversation that the hosts have.
pooriaazimi 14y ago
Some people commute, and find listening to podcasts is a better use of their time than listening to music. Some, like me, gain value from some episodes of some podcasts - for me, B&A wasn't one of them, but the early (1-20) and mid (40-50) episodes of Hypercritical[1] (by John Siracusa) were really educating. I learned a lot from those episodes. However I don't like it when they talk about next Apple event or iPhone, or endless discussions about app.net/twitter/... and wish Hypercritical was a more technical show (after weeks, the last episode in Intel chips was a bit satisfactory, so I hope they put twitter/iPhone discussions to rest). [1]: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical http://5by5.tv/hypercritical
m0nastic 14y ago
I listen to ~ 40 hours of podcasts per week, so I'm probably on the opposite end of the spectrum from you. If you don't understand the appeal of listening to audio podcasts, I don't think there's anything I could say to convince you otherwise. The experience is exactly how you describe it, so I don't think you're missing anything. I find myself similarly confused whenever someone posts a link here to some video and there's a raft of comments complaining about how video is so inefficient, and how people should just post everything as transcripts.
LVB 14y ago
You can also read the TAL transcripts and get through them 4x faster...

by bonaldi 14y ago

GuiA 14y ago

There are some good insights wrt iOS app development given on B&A that are elicited through the conversation that the hosts have.

pooriaazimi 14y ago

Some people commute, and find listening to podcasts is a better use of their time than listening to music. Some, like me, gain value from some episodes of some podcasts - for me, B&A wasn't one of them, but the early (1-20) and mid (40-50) episodes of Hypercritical[1] (by John Siracusa) were really educating. I learned a lot from those episodes. However I don't like it when they talk about next Apple event or iPhone, or endless discussions about app.net/twitter/... and wish Hypercritical was a more technical show (after weeks, the last episode in Intel chips was a bit satisfactory, so I hope they put twitter/iPhone discussions to rest). [1]: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical http://5by5.tv/hypercritical

m0nastic 14y ago

I listen to ~ 40 hours of podcasts per week, so I'm probably on the opposite end of the spectrum from you. If you don't understand the appeal of listening to audio podcasts, I don't think there's anything I could say to convince you otherwise. The experience is exactly how you describe it, so I don't think you're missing anything. I find myself similarly confused whenever someone posts a link here to some video and there's a raft of comments complaining about how video is so inefficient, and how people should just post everything as transcripts.

LVB 14y ago

You can also read the TAL transcripts and get through them 4x faster...