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Spread The Word About Podwatch

Podwatch has gone straight into my “must listen” category of podcasts. Full disclosure – Podwatch was kind enough to give LITOPIA AFTER DARK a near-perfect 9.5 marks out of 10 in their recent review – so I suppose I’m not totally disinterested! However, since first learning about this review site/podcast (our podcast officer, Ruby Tuesday, first alerted me that they’d mentioned us) I’ve subscribed to their feed in iTunes, and now find it absolutely essential listening.

Podwatch is based around a very simple premise. It rates and reviews significant podcasts. That’s it. Sounds an obvious idea, but if you’ve ever trawled fruitlessly through iTunes trying to find something that’s both original and worth listening to, you’ll understand just how useful a review site /’cast like this is, and how badly it’s needed, too.

The host, Tom Longo, is droll, intelligent and perceptive, and his taste is always on the money. He highlights the strengths and weaknesses of each show very clearly, in a way that helps you decide whether it’s worth investing your own time and effort in subscribing to the feed. He plays representative extracts from each show, then gives you a succinct summary of the pluses and minuses. It’s just what this new medium needs. My only complaint is that it’s currently weekly, not daily – I’d happily sign up for a daily cast if Tom could keep this standard up.

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