NY Times Podcasts without iTunes
I wanted to subscribe to some podcasts by New York Times, in particular Your Money by Ron Lieber. To my surprise, they only publish the podcast links for iTunes. Hello? What about people who don't use iTunes or iPod?
Luckily I have their Weekend Business podcast in my open-source Juice podcast receiver from some time ago. New York Times must have published the plain podcast RSS links back then. I don't know why they only give iTues links now. Is Apple paying NY Times for only showing iTunes links? It will not surprise me if that's the case. All monopolies behave the same way: Microsoft, Apple, Google, in their respective world. They want to make it difficult to use anything except their product.
Using the Weekend Business link, and some trial-and-error in guessing the file names for the other podcasts, I got the plain podcast RSS links for these NY Times podcasts.
Radio Programs On Demand with Podcasts
I mentioned in my Netflix vs. Blockbuster post that I don't subscribe to cable TV. I use Netflix for entertainment and podcasts for keeping up with the news. Podcasts for radio programs are like TiVo for television or RSS feeds for blogs. You download the programs' podcasts, load them onto a mp3 player, and listen to them whenever you want. I listen to them during commute.
You need a podcast receiving software. I use the free open source software Juice. Here are the podcasts I subscribe to:
Personal Finance: Marketplace Money by American Public Media. Weekly, 1-hour program on personal finance. Hosts also answer listener's questions.
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