Sunday, January 20, 2013

How podcasts saved my sanity

Audio podcasts diffuse the monotony of many household tasks like washing the dishes, cutting up a whole chicken, hanging laundry, etc.  They are ideal for tasks where you have to pay attention to the task visually but you can still expand your mind via your ear.  I want to experiment listening to podcasts while shoveling snow and vacuuming (i.e. with a more enclosing set of headphones) and determining if I can still follow the words being spoken. 

There are many podcasts out there but the best are the ones produced by people with a professional background in broadcasting.  Many other podcasts have lousy, difficult-to-hear audio, as if everyone was calling in on VIOP via a 14.4K modem.  My favorite sources of podcasts are TWiT and CBC because the topics are interesting AND the quality in production and information is second-to-none.

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