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The Java Posse podcast

After I wrote about the JavaCast being discontinued, Dick Wall got in contact to tell me about a new Java podcast that he was putting together with a couple of other people - Tor Norbye and Carl Quinn. This is excellent news and an initial podcast has been released, featuring an interview with Rob Hardwood from JetBrains.

As of today, I noticed that you can subscribe to The Java Posse via iTunes. Sounds like Dick and posse have some great things in store for the new podcast so time to get subscribed and stay tuned!

The JavaCast

Having just come back from holiday, I fired up iTunes hoping to get a new JavaCast that I could listen to on the way to work. If you've not heard of it before, the JavaCast was a podcast dedicated to news and views within the Java industry. I say "was" because after only a few episodes, the JavaCast has been discontinued. On the whole the JavaCast was pretty good. Released on a weekly basis, it had a good overview of the major news stories for the week, some of which I'd read about and some which I hadn't. The interviews were good too, with the Bruce Tate one providing some interesting insight into lightweight development techniques. My only real negatives are that it was sometimes a bit ranty and the podcasts tended to be on the long side - I think an hour is too long for a podcast.

Anyway, hopefully something similar will be revived soon, but this got me thinking. Putting together a podcast is a lot of work for one or two people and I wonder whether an open source contributor style model could be applied successfully here, helping to share out the load. A podcast by the community for the community. Perhaps a java.net podcast?

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