Like this:

I discovered the joy of podcasts last Spring when I was desperate for any extra hockey content I could get during the NHL Stanley Cup Finals. I was never a big sports radio listener because my local stations never talked about the sports and teams I care about. Then I discovered a lot of the hockey sites I was visiting had podcast interviews or regular talk shows about the stuff I wanted to be hearing. I could then subscribe to them with the click of a button in iTunes, and listen to them while driving. I didn’t have to hope that my favorite show would be on while I was driving, or hope that said show would talk about something interesting. I was in control of my own sports talk radio! How freeing!

I have to admit I like iTunes better than any other podcast aggregator. I find Odeo and Podbean and some of these other places a little confusing. I did find this one on Odeo:

Kukla’s Korner Interviews Pierre McGuire

It’s a major hockey blogger interviewing a hockey television personality. It’s like value added content to the games I watch, which is wonderful! Anyway, iTunes is exceptionally easy to use for podcasts; you don’t need an iPod to use it, either. I can’t recommend it enough. I think finding podcasts still seems to be easier, at least to me, by visiting websites and blogs about the subjects you like, as they will sometimes have podcasts or reviews of other people’s podcasts. I have yet to see a podcast directory that seemed comprehensive enough to me.

This year I also started podcasting on my own (no-work) blog. It was shockingly  easy to do. There is no reason why the library couldn’t be offering podcast story hours, podcasts or programs, podcasts of What’s Happening At OCL, podcats of computer classes, etc.

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