Really recent bits in blue
First of all thanks to all those creative
people making the podcasts listed below.
However good or bad I claim the podcasts reviewed
below to be, their creators are doing something I couldn't do; which is to make
a podcast.
The 361 Degrees Podcast
http://feed.361podcast.com/361Degrees?format=xml
Ben
Smith, Ewan MacLeod, Rafe Blandford
This podcast is having a short break, well a rather
long short break, all right then a very long break. It used to be one of the
best podcasts about tech and I realize now how I long for all those news
flashes that it’s getting dark in Copenhagen.
Please come back. We didn’t mean it. Honestly.
All About Windows Phone
http://rss.allaboutwindowsphone.com/media-feed.xml
Steve
Litchfield and Rafe Blandford and others
Hats off to Steve Litchfield for his dogged defence
of the indefensible (Microsoft). I admire his forbearance in treating Microsoft
as if they cared tuppence about the Windows Phone platform and not like a
company whose mobile phone policy has looked for years as if it was
designed by its competitors. There are only ever scraps to talk about but Steve
and his guests make the most of the tiny crumbs that can be found.
The Phones Show Chat
http://stevelitchfield.com/sshow/sshowchat.rss
Steve
Litchfield and Ted Salmon
Still going strong and deservedly so. Two
good-natured and authoritative presenters with the occasional guest. Apple is
given its just deserves with praise for the good things it does and disapproval
for the bad things it does. Apple fanboys won’t enjoy this podcast much.
CNET UK Podcast
http://feeds.feedburner.com/CnetUkPodcastmp3?format=xml
On the up these days I think. A nice mixture of
urbane and informed tech chat. There is the occasional welcome visit from the
knowledgeable Katie Collins, a bonus for any podcast.
Tech Talk UK podcast
http://techtalkuk.com/ttukpodcast.rss
Kevin
Wright and others (sometimes)
Wow. By the time you read this what I am writing
will be already out of date. I do not understand why I still listen to every
podcast. But I do listen to every podcast. Steve Litchfield commented
once that its chief and now sometimes only presenter has a good voice for radio
and I couldn’t agree more. It’s a compelling listen which is all the stranger
because I do not agree with most of what is said. Apple always seems to get a
good press but Android phones or more particularly Samsung phones yo-yo in and
out of favour at a truly bewildering rate and one can only admire the valiant
attempt by the presenter to set a some kind of personal record for the number
of phones he has bought and returned. This podcast died briefly then came back
and remains a good listen.
Wired.co.uk podcast
James
Temperton and others
http://www.wired.co.uk/rss/podcast
Really, very good these days. Its themes are a
little more varied than in days gone by so you can hear forecasts for inter
alia the Premier League, er, bits about Game of Thrones and items about UK
porn blocks and, well, all sorts really. The bubbly and brilliant Liat Clarke
is sometimes a presenter, which is a real bonus.
Tech Tent
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01plr2p/episodes/downloads
Rory
Cellan-Jones
I have tried and tried to listen to this. It
remains the BBC’s idea of what a tech podcast should sound like and sad to say
it feels like a tech podcast made by the team who made Blue Peter. Not for them
the rumours about the new iPhone; at time of writing its depressingly
ever-worthy main subject is “Diversity Row Hits Google”.
Android Central Podcast
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AndroidCentralPodcast?format=xml
Yes, yes, I know it's Canadian?-American (but
it does have occasionally a knowledgeable Brit on) and the usual presenters
have the extraordinary ability to talk engagingly for more than an hour about
the tiniest, microscopic details of mobile phone technology. If you want to
listen to people talking impossibly entertainingly about say a mobile phone button
for 35 minutes at a time give it a whirl; it’s worth a listen.
The Tech Addicts Podcast
http://mobiletechaddicts.libsyn.com/rss
Gareth
Myles, Jay Garrett, Gavin Fabiani-Laymond and Ricky West
Oh, I can’t listen to this anymore. The problem is
not with its content which is variably good to very good but with the sound
which fades out THEN
COMES BACK then fades out again THEN COMES BACK then suddenly it is as if
someone appears to be wrapping the microphone in crinkly paper and...
then I give up.
If ever they sort this out I’ll be back.
They did sort the sound out this week and, it’s a very good
listen. It can be a little more acerbic than some of the other podcasts here
but it has good content.
The PC Pro Podcast
Darien
Graham-Smith, Tim Danton and Barry Collins
https://soundcloud.com/pc-pro?feed=rss2
As you might expect from the name you hear a lot
more about PCs and desktop stuff than on some of the other tech podcasts. The
presenters should imho not take so much notice of the live commentary
stuff, whatever it is, from listeners and go with their own opinions more. This
is one of the podcasts that deserves a wider audience for its genial presenters
alone. The Phone Show Chat, Tech Talk UK, All About Windows Phone, the TechBox
are more interconnected and share guests from time to time but this stands
apart. Perhaps it would benefit from the occasional guest? I don’t know. It
would certainly benefit from having a better recording system. The recording is
never as bad as that of The Tech Addicts Podcast but there are still
ethereal squeaks and judders.
Tech's Message
http://rss.acast.com/techsmessage
Nate
Lanxon, Ian Morris
Been on holiday since 3rd July.
The TechBox
https://www.thetechbox.net/podcasts?format=rss
David
Rich, Richard Yates, James Honeyball and Andy Hagon.
The new kid on the block and it’s great. They are
still finding their feet, so to speak, but this has an engaging panel of
presenters and is good.