iTunes and podcasts

I have been looking more closely at podcasts in the last few days. First I added some podcasts subscriptions to my Google Reader. These were from the BBC and very easy to do- after that I tried to add some interesting book related podcasts to Google Reader but found that Google reader wouldn’t support them so got frustrated. With the time available for me to search- I could not find podcasts with content that I wanted to add to Google Reader. At the same time I picked up to read the July-Dec edition of UCL People which had an article on UCL lectures on iTunesU. Since we had just had our nice talk by John about the way lectures and teaching material are being presented now I wanted to go have a look- and ended up downloading iTunes and subscribing to The Library Channel podcasts from ASU Libraries. This kind of content was much better and actually worth spending a bit of time to sort through. I am also looking at the language and history podcasts from various universities. This could be good!