Okay, so it isn’t the revolution. But it’s a big step forward for Mother Corporation as the CBC unleashes a whole bunch of new podcasts on an unsuspecting public.
Every day will bring a new edition of a particular podcast:
- Monday – The Best of Ideas
- Tuesday – Dispatches
- Wednesday – The Best of Outfront
- Thursday – The Best of The Current
- Friday – The Best of As It Happens
- Saturday – Quirks & Quarks
- Sunday – The Best of DNTO
That enough for you? Wait, don’t answer – there’s more, updated with varying frequency:
- CBC Radio 3
- Sounds Like Canada: The Digital Extra
- CBC Radio Editor’s Choice
- Words at Large
- Word of the Week
Still got some room on that iPod? There’s also a weekly roundup of stories from every region of Canada.
The upshot is a dramatic multiplication of the CBC’s podcast offerings, with a promise of more to come. This has to be pretty gratifying for the broadcaster’s in-house tech visionary and podcast evangelist, Tod Maffin, who’s done a lot to make this happen. Online communities around each podcast would be a natural next step, but this is terrific progress.
What?
No best of Cluffie and Jenna?
I’m shocked I tell you.
Shocked.
Now if they had the best of anything Nora Young (DNTOing it or otherwise)….that I might even pay to download.
Or even better – Jack Farr.
And where the hell is George Singum Quimby these days anyway?
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Is CBC doing any video podcasts yet?
I’ve been stranded on the other side of the Atlantic and have been missing Canadian TV since iCraveTV got sued out of existence. I understand you’ve changed the map since I left (Nunavut) and elected a cannibal for a prime minister. How time flies…
What ever happened to that brilliant CaNet4 idea to create a publicly owned national fibre network connecting every home by 2005? Did you build it? Do you now have a vibrant, world-leading digital economy? Or is it the same as everywhere else. (Don’t worry, business *can* provide essential infrastructure, it just takes longer and costs more.)
I miss snow. And I miss the social provisions I took for granted, like unemployment insurance, maternity/paternity leave, and community recreation facilities. I now pay the same tax rate – but without the same level of deliverable social services. Who knew that a vaguely socialist parliamentary democracy was capable of delivering such a good standard of living? Is it wrong to suspect you’ve botched it all up since I left?
I look forward to CBC video podcasts, whenever they arrive.