Technology and computing podcasts

So as a spin off of a project I'm doing on my other blog I've started listening to technology and computing podcasts which I've been reviewing there.

So some brief notes/reviews of what I've listened to so far, all of which are free podcasts:

GRC has the Security Now podcast which is produced in collaboration with This Week in Tech, this is a regular weekly show with approximately half as Q&A episodes and the others discussing various topics about security and IT. There is a lot of interesting content that is not purely security based in there and it is worthwhile listening. I recommend this podcast highly.

SE Radio is a well established podcast on Software Engineering and development, that covers a wide range of ground including different languages, methodologies and approaches and usually takes the form of interviews with a subject matter expert or a discussion between some of the regular hosts. Each podcast has a useful set of links provided in the show notes and this is a good site for someone looking to stay in touch with a broad range of technologies.

This Week in Tech has the eponymous podcast which features a discussion between Leo Laporte and a number of different technology journalists each week, the contributors tend to reappear fairly often and though biased towards the North American media there are British and other contributors appearing. There are a huge number of specifically targeted podcasts at TWiT, but I only really listen to Security Now, TWiT and Triangulation. Triangulation is an interview show with Leo and Tom Merrit speaking to a figure from technology history like Dan Bricklin, John Draper and so on which is interesting for someone like me who has a certain fascination with the development of technology.

The BBC Podcasts include Click (or Digital Planet as it was called) which is a weekly magazine show presented by Gareth Mitchell with Bill Thompson as the usual technology expert. It is a features based show so covers a broad range of content but lacks the depth of dedicated podcasts like SE Radio or Security Now. It is an entertaining listen and does cover some things that do not get picked up by the more in depth podcasts.

Tech Weekly at the Grauniad* is a regular weekly podcast with Aleks Krotoski as the main presenter, but most of the other regular journalists from the technology section appear regularly. This is pretty useful on a regular basis with a mixture of content, but like most magazine style shows can't provide in depth coverage of topics.

*Normal British joke about theGuardian's notorious spelling errors in the past.

In the future I'll return to this topic as there are large numbers that I have ignored but there is a limited amount of hours in the day