on podcasts (and deleting my entire itunes library)
three days ago i accidentally deleted my entire music collection. no backups. no restoring. no excuses. just sheer stupidity. perfect.
it took me 5 years to compile that collection. when i realised i had deleted everything, i felt one good boost of anxiety. and then i realised i had just freed up 50gb+ on my harddrive. perfect. 80% of the songs had a play count of 1 or 0. i rarely used itunes in the first place. spotify has a much wider collection. empty itunes library restored my focus. perfect. one thing i did use itunes for regularly: podcasts. those were also all gone. but some twitter friends quickly filled that library with recommendations. perfect. here's a quick overview of awesome podcasts. mostly politics, culture and current affairs. - The Economist- Freakonomics Radio
- BBC World Service Documentaries
- Monocle
- The Moth
- New Yorker: Out Loud
- New Yorker: Political Scene
- NPR: Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
- NPR: World Story of the Day
- PRI: Selected Shorts
- PRI's The World
- Sinica
- Slate: Culture gabfest
- Slate Political gabfest
- Stuff You Should Know
- Thomas Crampton
- WNYC Radiolab all available from the itunes store. updated regularly, to function as my personal radio station. perfect. (massive thanks to @kaiserkuo for supplying the majority of this list!)
