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The whole podcast phenomenon has taken off and there is a level of ‘maturity’ in many of the audio ‘narrowcasts’ out there.

But briefly, for those who haven’t caught up on this trend yet:

What is a Podcast?
It’s basically an MP3 audio file added to an RSS feed that can be easily downloaded and accessed by your computers media player and/or your portable MP3/audio player.

What do I need to download a Podcast?
You’ll need a Podcast client, or software application. There’s a few to choose from, but to make things easy I’ll recommend iPodder It’s available for Windows, Linux and Apple operating systems.
Alternatively, if you already have and use iTunes, that will allow you to subscribe to a podcast and have it downloaded automatically to your system.

If you need to know more, ask via the Contact form.

There are, of course, a number of podcasts dedicated to the subject of coffee.
Two of the best known are:

Coffeegeek.com
This is Mark Prince’s audio addition to his well known coffeegeek web site. You can subscribe to his usually weekly podcast at the URL above.

Portafilter.net
Nick and Chris run this site and it’s podcast. Both are involved in the retail side of the coffee industry, and in the various barista competitions around the world.

Comment: I’ve listened to a number of these podcasts from both sources. I find that while there are nuggets of good info and interviews to be found, those nuggets are swimming in a sea of mediocrity.
If these people were doing what they do on radio, they wouldn’t last five minutes. There is a lot of rambling, and self-indulgent chatter that becomes mind numbing after a short period. Some of pf.net’s podcasts are two and a half hours long. It takes some exceptional content to engage me for even half that time!

There are other coffee podcasts out there too – just Google for ‘coffee podcast’.

As always, take a listen for yourself and see what you think…