ok I get geek podcasts
I’ve always got podcasts: prerecorded "radio" shows, usually in mp3 format, advertised by RSS, client software to check for updates and download to the relevant place (for some being an iPod, hence the misleading term podcast). Since I learned and understood that, i’ve always avoided the techie ones, reasoning that I wouldn’t want to listen to people talking at length about techie issues, when I would rather read the information.
that was until I stumbled across this podcast of an interview with Rob Miller talking about the use of Plone for the extranet used for the organisation of the Burning Man festival in Nevada. It made sense because I only found it because I was googling for something else plone related, stumbled across it, and started playing it in the background whilst I carried on searching for what I was originally looking for*, and let it play in the background, absorbing the content. The content was in the form of a telephone interview (probably actually a skype conversation or similar - must try to find out), and made sense because of the radio format and the "in the background" style, rather than taking time out specifically to listen to one person talking about one subject.
*I was trying to find a product to let standard members in a standard plone site to be able to sign-up to standard events via a simple one click process (i.e attach members to events or vice versa)- all enquiries on #plone and plone-users were met with radio silence 