I came across a new website that is a different kind of podcast directory called Podango. It is not only a collection of individual podcasts but its uniqueness is in its use of what they call Stations. This is how they describe them:
What is a Podcast Station? 
Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a place that consolidated all the best podcasts into one show?
There is. It’s Podango. And it is nice.
There are more podcasts on the web every day. And to be honest, a lot of them aren’t very good. This begs the question, How can I find the best podcasts for my area of interest?
The answer: Podango’s podcast stations. A Station Director does the legwork (earwork?) for you, sifting through roughly seven zillion podcast feeds to find the rare jewel that they know listeners will enjoy. This podcast can then become part of their station, and you, the listener, don’t need to wade through the muck.
You only need one subscription — to the station itself — to get updates from all the best on the net.
It’s like comparing broadcast television to an infinite collection of strangers’ home movies. But then, maybe you like shaky-cam videos of some grandmother’s 90th birthday. If that’s your thing, you have no need for stations that bring together the world’s best podcasts. (No offense, somebody’s grandma.)
One subscription. One station. All the best content for your area of interest.
Register today, or face the consequences. One of which is wasting a whole lot of your own time.
One of the first stations I came upon was Podcast Mastery. It is currently made up of six podcasts (one is not actually in production yet). I started with the Podcast Tools Weekly Update. It has 50 shows in its catalogue. The host is Paul Colligan, who does an excellent job in both producing the show and hosting it. He has a strong voice that conveys great conviction.
If you look at the URL of Podcast master you will see that it is http://podcastmastery.podango.com/ which means that the station is actually a subdomain of the podango. Each station has a ‘Station Director’. So it is going after a ‘terrestrial radio’ paradigm while remaining true to the time-shifted draw of podcasting. You can subscribe to the entire Station via iTunes, or you can listen to individual programs via click-and-listen or direct download. You cannot, however, subscribe to individual shows via iTunes. There is an RSS link, but this only worked with my blog aggregator and not with iTunes. This makes sense, since the point of the site is to aggregate the Station rather than individual casts. Still, the show’s page in Podango does provide a link to the show’s website.
After looking around, I did a search on the word ‘catholic’. Currently the only hit is nutjob Kathleen Keating and her show ‘The World View’. I got thinking that it would be great to have a Catholic channel. Anyone want to take this on? It could be a great place to feature the best in Catholic podcasts.
Any takers?
Podango is an interesting addition to the ‘podosphere’. The site is well designed and therefor easy to navigate. I especially liked how most of the shows I checked out contained transcripts of the shows. This makes information easier to find and much friendlier to search engines.
Head on over and let me know what you think.
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