I’m somewhat occupied with some lingering projects, some new projects, and the impending holidays. One little personal project I’ve been up to is enriching my work listening experience with podcasts. I realize I am incredibly, incredibly late to the podcast love train, but I’m not an early-adopter of anything that doesn’t have an immediate place in my life and I just haven’t had much use for them until now. I listen to Marketing Experiments for job-related education, and several others just for personal enrichment.

I ran across Stuff You Missed In History on a co-worker’s shared iTunes library. I fell in love, downloaded the entire multi-year history and blasted through it in just a couple months. They really make history come to life and share all sorts of fun and interesting stuff that actually was probably never taught in your history class in the first place. When I caught up on the old episodes, I was hungry for more, but too lazy to go out and start test-driving a bunch of random podcasts.

I started listening to Marketing Experiments when the president mentioned them to me. It’s extremely informative about this new field of mine and I enjoy parts of it a lot, but the main guy’s delivery is just so bad I can’t listen to multiple episodes in a row (I think it’s because it’s a webclinic at heart that happens to be podcasted, rather than a podcast at heart that causes the biggest disconnect).

Then Stuff You Missed in History won the PodCast Awards and I realized that the award winners would probably also be good podcasts to listen to as well. So now I am working through a slightly larger list of podcasts that I may review later on if I feel strongly about them. One definite winner so far is FilmSack. They’re a bit of a boy’s club, but they are funny as all get out. I’ve gone back in their history a little bit, and this coming week, I will make my first attempt to watch the movie they plan to review, just for fun.

I highly recommend all of these podcasts for their respective categories! I am pleased to have these to entertain and educate me at work, because that means I can use my trusty old iPod in my car when I let my Sirius XM subscription lapse in March.