# 0033 - Two podcasts to go up the drain

Not that they actually have the massive success [at the least the one of them]. But should you be curious about how a podcast sounds like you may want to try these two out:

1. ABC Lost Official Podcast [sometimes a videocast!]
2. HBR Idea Cast [brought to you by Harvard Business Review]

After having tried a couple of podcasts on you may have a hint into why the whole idea failed: who is in the mood of listening some guys talking for what could be even half an hour or more when you can just as easily grasp the gist out of some text?

Podcasts down the drain

Do you know podcasts? Yeap, they are these radio-show-like audio clips that you can find via iTunes or within their author's website and listen at your ease. The thing is that these things still can not get off the ground. No one likes them, only one person in eight has even given them a try? So, why bother? Read this article on probably one of the greatest computer industry failures ever.

Musicovery [90/100]

Yet another internet radio [I see it coming... in the end we will end up as the best source for internet radios]! BTW I have added one extra label for all those radio reviews.

Its name is Musicovery and what is new is that you do not specify an artist or a music genre of your preference but your mood! You choose whether you would like to listen to something happy, dark or otherwise and the playlist changes accordingly. And if you cannot bear some kind of music you can always exclude it or, in the other hand specify one or two genres and combine them with the mood you are in.

Blogmusik [92/100]

Blogmusik claims to be a virtual ipod to you. It works pretty much the same as all customisable internet radios. You enter an artist and it is supposed to give you suggestions. But!!! Here, the program returns suggestions by the very artist you searched for!

Plus, it has an iPod like interface. Give it a try by clicking here.

Pandora Internet Radio [77/100]

Blogging around lately I checked out a link by a lady's blog's links, reading "The Best Internet Radio". The only thing I can tell you is that it is indeed the best. I have tried several of them [not to say all of them] since their very first days back in 1999 and all I can say is give it a try.

What I especially like is the really great automatic personalization and the really cool feature of mix stations, i.e. you can create as many stations as you like and choose some of them and listen at a mix of their songs.

Mentioning should go as well to the exceptional sound quality which comes to your PC without all the "What's your connection speed?" hassle.

Yet, I think that their gizmos for connecting Pandora to your home stereo selling for $249 is not a great idea.

On the downside, there is the common found limitation of track skipping [not more that 7 per hour] but you can always switch to another station of yours or create a new one and bypass it.

Also note that [at least for now] variety is limited compared to, say, Yahoo! Radio.