Longtime readers may know that in my bio in the sidebar I used to say that I “hope to start a podcast or two someday.” Well, that “someday” is here! I have a few podcast projects I’ve been working on lately that I’d like to share with you: the Catholic Geek Podcast and the Tech News Podcast.

Okay, so this first one isn’t “new” because I’ve been running it for some time. However, I’m just now starting to promote it now that I feel it is of high enough quality. It’s my personal podcast known as the Catholic Geek Podcast, with the subtitle “An Eclectic Podcast by a Catholic Teenage Programmer.”

Of course, when I said “high enough quality” in the above paragraph, I didn’t mean top-notch quality, but high enough to the point that it isn’t a pain to listen to (except for the first three episodes; those weren’t very good). In my opinion it isn’t as high-quality as this blog; I’m good at writing, but I don’t have a very good radio voice (I’m hoping it’ll come with practice).

Although this blog has my name as its title, it seems that the podcast is the more personal of the two; I suppose it’s the nature of the podcasting medium.

The second podcast just started; it’s so new, in fact, that there’s only one episode up (ooh, aah). It’s called the Tech News Podcast, and I co-host it along with a friend of mine named Paul. What makes it particularly interesting, in my opinion, is that I’m a Windows person, and Paul happens to be a Mac person. And as many of you may know, when you mix together Windows and Mac people you’ll get quite interesting results indeed.

The first episode went quite well. (Well, the first public episode, that is. We tried another episode some time ago but didn’t publish it because of audio quality issues.) Here’s the shownotes for episode one:

In the premiere episode, John and Paul discuss Microsoft’s Zune player vs. the iPod, Mac security vs. Windows security, Firefox vs. Internet Explorer 7, Firefox add-ons, webcams that track your sleep patterns, phishing as a job, paper-based storage systems, and Wingdings codes.

Anyone interested in technology is probably drooling by now. I mean, who can resist a podcast about Wingdings codes? Joking aside, I highly recommend that you check it out. We’re planning to do episode 2 tomorrow; I’ll let you know when that’s up.

And as a side note, I’d also recommend you check out Paul’s blog. Paul and I are alike in many areas (except operating system allegiance), so if you like my blog, you’ll probably like his too (though Paul tends to talk more about politics whereas I tend to talk more about technology).

Please let me know what you think of the Catholic Geek Podcast, and please let Paul and me know what you think about the Tech News Podcast. We’d love to hear your feedback!