Thing 21 - Finding Podcasts

At first glance, I did not find the tools for locating podcasts much more useful than Technorati. The few book review podcasts I was able to find using podcast.net and podcastalley seemed rather new and, therefore, lacking in content. Librarian podcasts were mostly system-centric (is that a word?). I did not bother much with Yahoo Podcasts as there is a message explaining that this is a site they are discontinuing as of October 31, 2007. I finally just went to NPR and added their podcast feed to my blogroll.
What I did like about Podcastalley was their own podcast interviews. One of the first I saw was an interview with Marcus Couch, host of The Scene Zine. I began listening to The Scene Zine, not the interview. The show plays rock/heavy metal music that one cannot hear on the radio. I really enjoyed most of the music on the two shows I heard.
I do not believe there is much use for these sites in the library; however, visiting them from time to time and playing around with them might reveal the occasional worthwhile podcast.