Chapter 18
Ten Types of Podcasts to Check Out
IN THIS CHAPTER
Checking out tech and science podcasts
Growing through self-development podcasts
Having fun with comedy and gaming podcasts
Ah yes, narrowing down the thousands upon thousands upon thousands of podcasts out there to an elite ten: The Top Ten Podcasts You Should Be Listening To. The Best of the Best. The Select Few to Follow.
No pressure.
Where to begin? Where to begin? With each edition of Podcasting For Dummies, your humble authors sat down and put together our own top ten lists of podcasts, and here’s what we have noticed: There are a lot of podcasts out there. While some of our listening habits have remained steady and constant as the Northern Star, our taste can sometimes shift into unexpected offerings … which, if you listen to Astronomy Cast (http://www.astronomycast.com), you would know Polaris is not that constant. We have found, over our years of podcasting, that we listen to a solid cross-section of types of podcasts, not just in the way of genres but in production values. So with a quick edit of the outline and a change of mindset, we present Ten Types of Podcasts to Check Out.
There are other kinds of podcasts ...
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