What’s been in my ears

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I’ve been listening to some pretty good podcasts lately and thought I’d point readers here to some of them and the resources around them.

  • Who’s the #1 blogger amongst people who have identified their favorite reads in the new Technorati Favorites system? Steve Rubel, a prolific blogger who covers the new PR at MicroPersuasion. He did a great interview with Brian Oberkirch of Weblogs Work, just posted today. He talks about blogging his brains out and the emerging roll of blogs in PR. About 30 minutes long, it’s a good listen.
  • After being told by Dave Winer in comments here to stop worrying and listen to his most recent podcast on OPML 2.0 explained in an understandable way – I admit that I do feel a lot better. I don’t think his explanation is as accessible as he thinks it is (I’m going to try and write up an even more straight forward one here asap) but if you are interested in OPML it’s a great thing to listen to. It’s at this link: OPML 2.0 Podcast

  • Also worth listening to is Dave’s conversation with John Palfrey, founder of toptensources.com, and director of Berkman Center at Harvard Law School (very cool group). If you’ve never checked out Top Ten Sources, you really should it’s really neat. That’s what this podcast is all about. The fascinating Irina Slutsky of GeekEntertainmentTV is the west coast editor there. That interview with Palfry is here: Palfrey Podcast file.
  • Marnie Webb just posted a short but info-packed podcast interview she did with Chris Law about Net Squared, its parent organization Tech Soup and her work personally. Law was one of the founders of the very hip social networking site Tribe.net and now blogs about tech startups at 1000 Flowers Bloom. Tech Soup and its parent Compumentor are huge organizations that move a staggering amount of resources to the nonprofit sector. (Disclosure: I work for them right now, in case you didn’t know that.) This is all good stuff to learn about and Marnie’s interview will give you a pretty fast intro to it. That file is at: Webb interview podcast.

Ok, enough about all the great interviews other people have done that I’ve been listening to! I have to sign off here and go write up interviews of Gloria Pan from MediaCenter.org, Jesse Salinas from the Hands on Network and Chris Blow from Progressive ICT Review. Those will be posted over at Net Squared interviews as soon as I can get them up.