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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

#21 Podcast directories

Interesting. I have just done a search on Podcast.net using the keyword search terms "australia and politics and national" and came up with zero as a search result. "australia ad politics and labour" had one hit, likewise "australia ad politics and liberal". Having had such a poor result in my searching I had another look at the home page, which was not informative at all. Since the search "australia and abc" had only two results, Local radio and the Science show, it would be interesting to know how the directory locates and adds podcasts apart from volunteers.

Podcast alley had much better coverage and structure and did provide more information about who was behind the directory. Its rather alarming that the directory is maintained by just one person. Hopefully he doesn't suffer from an attack of the flu.

1 comment:

The Learning 2.0 Program said...

I too can never seem to locate anything much from podcast directories. Is it us or perhaps the way people use social tagging instead of defined rules and subject headings like libraries do