Flutterby™! : podcasting

Since I'm working at home, and since much of what I've been doing recently hasn't been heads-down coding, I've been getting into audio from the net to provide a little background chatter for the voices in my head. The gems so far are MarkV's dispatches from Brainwagon, good geeky stuff, Russell Holliman over at mobilepodcast.org, with his dry sense of humor, and for music I like Coverville, actually licensed music, and as the name implies lots of covers, both great and so bad they're good, and The Rock and Roll Geek Show.

So as I've been poking about, I noticed that Susie Bright mentioned having some stuff over at Audible.com. And even though I've found her more recent books thin at best, I figured I'd see what the deal was. $5.95 for 23 minutes.

I'm not averse to spending a little money here and there, and the aforementioned gems are going to get some support from me (I think I owe MarkV dinner anyway), but... dayumn, that's a lot of money for 23 minutes. And it's hard to tell from Audible.com's subscription options what the long-term costs of subscribing are. I think I'll stick with donations to the aforementioned gems and keep looking.