View from the Ivory Tower

Since I’ve gotten the Zune HD, I love keeping up with podcasts for those long drives or commutes in the morning or afternoon.  Sometimes I do get asked what am I listening to, so here’s my list of podcasts that I attempt to stay current with.

These are all available in the Zune Marketplace – and probably in iTunes store, but I don’t go there much/ever.

• .NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard cover new topics in development, .NET, and other Microsoft technologies.
• APM: Sound Opinions – Jim and Greg are music Critics out of Chicago that review music / bands as well as keep updated on the happenings in the music industry.
• EconTalk – Russ Roberts, the host, is a professor of economics at George Mason University.  He’s a Chicago-School/Hayak follower for the most part, but he’s an excellent host that extracts some great economic opinions out of his guests regardless of theirs or his positions.
• Mad Money (Full Episode) – Jim Cramer is the stock picking guy at CNBC – his full show in video is available.
• NPR: Planet Money – This show started out focusing exclusively on the financial crisis of 2008, but now covers all sorts of issues that are in the news from a financial/economic perspective.  They go into way more depth than anything else I’ve seen on the news.
• Radio TFS – Paul, Martin, and Mickey talk about the latest in Visual Studio on a semi-regular basis.
• Security Now! – Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte talk about the latest news in computer security as well as go into depth on issues of interest.
• The Ric Edelman Show – Ric is a financial advisor with a syndicated radio show that is podcasted.  He provides financial news.
• This American Life – Weekly show from NPR which takes a theme and has several stories about that theme.  It’s neither necessarily technology or economics, but feels like an audio documentary.
• Windows Weekly – Weekly show (hence the title) about Microsoft and Windows hosted by Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte.

I guess someone’s podcast list can say a lot about them.  In my case – technology and economics/finance.  I think it would be interesting to see what others are listening to as well.