by Tadej Gregorcic on July 1, 2008
How many books do you read per month nowadays?
Two? One? Half a book?
If you’re a busy professional, perhaps not even that?
I’ve always found reading to be an essential part of personal development. Not blogs - I mean the normal, in-depth, catch every word - not just the headlines - reading ;).
Over the past couple of years, I’ve noticed how my shelves started getting full of books I had no idea when I’d come around to read. Business books, fiction, language books, you name it …
Looming over me like a very pronounced shadow of outdated aspirations.
But why do I read less?
I suppose partly due to the standard reasons that we all face - apart from the apparent busyness, it’s ever-shifting interests and professional pressures that are making it increasingly hard to sit down and dive into one of the classics that you’ve always felt bad about not having read.
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by Tadej Gregorcic on May 31, 2008
Of course there is more to a podcast than just words turned into audio (as you can clearly discover by listening to these fine examples) -
but Odiogo does a very good job of creating MP3 versions of your blog posts and posting them for your readers to play - either on the website itself or as a podcast on their iPods (or similar devices).
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by Tadej Gregorcic on October 7, 2007
In the past couple of years, I have stumbled upon a series of useful podcasts I listen to more or less regularly.
Below is a list of the ones I have found most useful.
1. Technology
- Hanselminutes - a great software development podcast by Scott Hanselman (focusing on MS technologies)
- TWiT - This Week In Tech - fun and informative weekly updates on what’s new in the tech world (by Leo Laporte & co.)
- Net@Nite - web tech updates by Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte
- SecurityNow - IT security by Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
- Ruby on Rails Podcast
2. Entrepreneurship
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