Some 12 or 13 years ago, I worked at a company that had a great developer library. Before the advent of the web, this was a great resource for coming up to speed on a variety of topics. Within this library, the company had purchased video tapes of training sessions, sessions at conferences, etc. I systematically checked out every video tape. I would watch them while I exercised on the treadmill. It was a great way to be exposed to new topics (and it made exercising something I looked forward to…)

With the advent of podcasts, I am getting many of the same benefits I received from watching those tapes. In addition to listening to podcasts while I exercise, I also listen to them while riding the bus and doing errands around the house and the yard. Even when the podcasts do not directly apply to what I am working on, they are a great resource. I often find myself pondering a comment or a topic mentioned — which at the time seemed to have no relevance to what I am working on — only to find that it is spurring my rethinking of some aspect of my current project.

With that in mind, I thought I would list the various business and technical podcasts that I listen to on a regular basis. I am excluding those general interest, science, news and hobby podcasts — which I enjoy immensely — but are outside of the topic of this blog.

Business Related Podcasts
APM: Marketplace Conversations from the Corner Office http://marketplace.publicradio.org/RSS/corneroffice.xml
MBA Podcasts http://podcast.timesonline.co.uk/rss/mba.rss
NPR Business Story of the Day http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=1095

General Technology News
Buzz Out Loud from CNET http://www.cnet.com/i/pod/cnet_buzz.xml

CNET News.com daily tech news podcast http://news.com.com/2325-11424_3-0.xml
eWeek News and Views http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/audioblogs/eweek.xml
InfoWorld Daily Podcast http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/podcast.xml
this Week in Tech http://leo.am/podcasts/twit

Open Source
FLOSS Weekly http://leo.am/podcasts/floss

Quality Assurance & Software Engineering
Gray Matters Podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/GrayMattersPodcast
Quality 101 http://feeds.feedburner.com/quality101
Software Engineering Radio http://se-radio.net/rss
The StickyMinds SoundByte Podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/StickyMindsSoundByte

Security Related Podcasts
CNET News.com: Security Bites http://news.com.com/2325-12640_3-0.xml
Security Now! http://leo.am/podcasts/sn

Microsoft Technologies
Hanselminutes http://www.hanselminutes.com/hanselminutes_MP3Direct.xml
Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrott http://leoville.tv/podcasts/ww.xml