Ignore this post: it’s for class.
Do you use podcasts? They’re usually free, and you can take an audio recording of literally anything in the world on-the-go, to listen to on your computer, iPod, or whatever you’re using to jam out to your tunes these days.
Podcasts can be pretty convenient:
Duke started using podcasts for classes a while ago. Some teachers record and post their lectures on the Duke section of iTunes U — if you miss a class, not only can you hear it exactly as it went down, you can make up your class while you’re on the C-1 bus, or even while you’re puttin up LB’s in the Wilson gym.
If you are good at planning ahead, you can have free entertainment on-the-go if you search online for downloadable podcasts. I have to admit, I don’t usually download podcast shows. I don’t even listen to shows when they’re on the radio. However, I just poked around and found some pretty funny ones, like The Awful Show (click the listen button), that talks about (and only about) pretty much everything you can’t hear about on normal radio (sex, drugs, etc).
Personally, music podcasts are more appealing. You GOTTA check out The Mixtape Show, run by a black guy from Japan (called dex digital) who samples low-key hip-hop and soultronica and posts his new mixes every time he finishes them. As of now, he’s got 125 of them. His most recent mix repped all 90′s rap including Hieroglyphics, Geto Boyz, Ice Cube, and more.

He includes a short introduction with an anecdote at the beginning of each podcast before he bumps his new mix, and on his blog site, he lists all the songs he sampled from for each mix. If you click here, each of his new podcast mixes will be downloaded directly into your iTunes.
In a post coming soon, two homies from my journalism 2.0 class (Adam Spi-whack and J-ro aka Jerome B) and I will give you our own recorded one-time podcast. Get pumped like a tire.
Posted in Duke, Journalism 2.0, Music
Tags: podcasts, the mixtape show