China By Podcast
Go ahead and call me a Luddite, but I generally am not a big fan of podcasts because they take too long. We lawyers can read (or skim) documents at a much faster speed than mere mortals. Podcasts take away that edge.
But for those who like podcasts....
Rick Martin over at The Little Red Blog just compiled a great list on the top China podcasting sites, entitled, "China in your ear."
Rick's list consists of the following:
The Cool Aid, which describes itself as being about "surprising personal experiences in China business." Cool Aid is part of BizCult, which is a very good blog.
CBC Search Engine. CBC is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and this show is about "how technology is affecting society, and understandably, the conversation often includes a discussion of China."
The China Business Network. This one is excellent.
Danwei.fm. This one is part of the rightfully venerated Danwei blogging empire.
MarketPlace Public Radio. Rick advises us to "see its Asia category, which is dominated by stories on China." Scott Teng, npr's lead guy in Shanghai does always keep it interesting.
China Business Blog and Podcast. This is done by Kent Kedl of Technomic Asia and I too am a huge fan.
Any others deserving mention?
Comments
i enjoy the 'casts' on china radio international. then again i am not sure what's the difference between a 'podcast' and a 'webcast'. (http://english.cri.cn/webcast/) do you know?
Posted by: GCB | April 29, 2008 6:07 AM
I agree that podcasts generally are not as effective as the written word unless something about the content demands audio (or video) (eg language learning).
Which is why Mandarin language podcasts are so useful. BBC and Deutshe-Welle both produce decent Mandarin language podcasts. And, of course, there's Chinesepod.
There's a more extensive list of Chinese language podcasts here: http://nanfengoranges.com/?page_id=84.
Posted by: mooney47 | April 29, 2008 6:12 AM