@5by5 podcasts are way more fun than #NRK - the Norwegian National broadcast

12.14.2011

I love listening to radio. Even more than listening to podcasts. But Dan Benjamin in 5by5.tv has managed capture my listening hours for four weekly excellent and fun podcasts. All of them with a bias in favor of Apple:


  1. The Critical Path with Horace Dediu. Horace tend to mainly cover disruption theory and mobile statistics and economy.
  2. The Talk Show with John Gruber. Gruber is an excellent columnist in his Daring Fireball.
  3. Build and Analyze with Marco Arment. Marco is the sole developer of Instapaper, a "read later" app which make mobile effective for reading websites.
  4. Hypercritical with Jon Siracusa. Jon is also a developer, but caught my mind when he was the first to question the new Steve Jobs bio. And did it really well.

I use Instacast for iPhone to grab the podcasts I subscribe to.

Each of the shows has a duration of more than 60 minutes, so Dan Benjamin's shows are effectively stealing time from my longtime listening to the Norwegian National broadcaster (NRK). And that's impressive. 5by5.tv is a quite lean operation in comparison to NRK radio!