I found this session extremely frustrating. I tried all 3 directories that were suggested we look at. Of the three only Podcast.net gave anything remotely resembling interesting podcasts. They were varied and easy to find with the site having a search box as well as an alphabetical index. Contrary to what was said on the Learning 2.0 Activities blog, you did need to download some software to use the podcasts on Podcast.net. It didn't take long though and worked fine after that. I must say that I feel sorry for anyone attempting this exercise with a dial-up Internet connection though as I found it annoyingly slow and I have fairly decent broadband access.
I can see that podcasts would be good for training purposes. I guess the podcasts we've all been listening to over past weeks while doing this Learning 2.0 are a good case in point. I'm not sure I'd bother too much for recreational reasons as I found them tedious and more than a little boring and that was for subjects that I was interested in so I shudder to think what they'd be like for a subject I wasn't interested in!! I also found that the sound quality left a bit to be desired. The diction on quite a few that I listened to was very ordinary rendering the podcast almost unintelligible at times. I hesitate to mention which ones in particular but they were library related sites. On the whole I was rather disappointed with this lesson.
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