Podcasts

This week’s exercise focused on locating podcasts. We were instructed to review a couple of the suggested podcast directory tools (Yahoo Podcasts, Podcast.net & Podcastalley.com). Of those three, only Yahoo could be accessed via staff computers. Both Podcastalley.com & Podcast.net were both blocked by Websense. We were told we could access them using the public computers; however, I opted not to. Instead, I listened to a delightful book review I found while exploring Yahoo Podcasts. The critique was of the Walter Lord book, about the sinking of the Titanic called, A Night to Remember, and the reviewer was a young man, (possibly 9 or 10 years of age) named Ken.
Next, after a brief Google search, I went to Audiopolis, a website that reviews audiobooks, and listened to a podcast of the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. The reviewer was Leslie Fine, and the podcast included an excerpt read by the actress Sissy Spacek. I then added an RSS feed to Audiopolis to my Google Reader account.