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The warmer seasons mean, amongst other things, lots of time outside cutting the grass (about 4 hours each mow) and my weapons of choice are a riding mower, Droid packed with podcasts, and earbuds that attenuate ambient noise.

The mower is a John Deere because I watched my dad go through multiple brands before settling on a “Deere”. I put the blades and transmission through high-speed hell every time with gumballs, branches, pine cones, and the occasional exposed root. I always brake for critters. I’m allergic to the local grass and am physically miserable every time I mow. The only payoff, is listening to podcasts.

I windup looking forward to mowing because of the podcasts. It becomes a little uninterrupted “me time” where I can get into numerous amazing productions. I don’t use iTunes anymore to get podcasts. I use Google’s “Listen” app which works wonderfully on my Android phone (Droid).

The playlist from the last two weeks:

• DishyMix Episode 144: Cory Trefiletti of Catalyst S+F on Rethinking Agency Inefficiencies, Digital Influentials and The Pyramids of Egypt
• DishyMix Episode 145: James Andrews, BeEverywhere.tv on Monetizing Passionistas, Hashtag Streams and In-Flight DJing
• DishyMix Episode 146: John Federico on 7 Habits, iPad Gamechanger and Mob Seen Generators
• DishyMix Episode 147: Wil Reynolds on Universal Search, Keyword Research and Gangsta Rap
• Inside HP Software Social Media from Albert Maruggi
• The El Show Episode 28: Social Media’s Ills | Geoff Livingston’s Blog
• The El Show Episode 27: Embedded Journalism
• Edge Theory Conversation 8: Twitter breaks into iPhone and Blackberry market, Risks developer relations
• FIR Interview: Christian Gunning, Boingo
• FIR goes weekly, introduces format changes
• The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #542: April 12, 2010
• The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #541: April 8, 2010
• Engadget Podcast 191 – 04.11.2010

To boil all that down to a few items is a huge injustice, but here’s what sticks out in my mind: Geoff Livingston, iPad, and James Andrews.  Each deserving of their own post in the coming days.

As I type this, the list looks insanely long. However, we’re talking about 8 hours worth of mowing the grass here. I don’t understand the roots of my appreciation for podcasts. Maybe it stems from a passion my dad shared for radio shows, or the few years we spent in Japan when I was in middle school where Armed Forces radio was a principle source of entertainment. What I do know is that there is a wealth of information and perspectives on said information available via great and poor podcasts.

Podcasts are still on the obscure fringes of popularity and likely always will be.  Most people I speak to about podcasts won’t engage them (even knowing the wealth of knowledge obtainable).  I enjoy the fact that I can multitask physical, or other sense occupying activity with podcasts.  I seldom (like most people) have time to sit down and just listen to a podcast. I’m compelled to still tout the awesomeness of podcasts and maybe affect someone in a very positive way.

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