August 9, 2005

(Very) Beta Podcast Directory Live

I wanted to invite all of you to check out the beta version of our new podcast directory. Here’s the link:

https://www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-Directory

We’re planning to go “public” with this next week so please feel free to give us your feedback. It’s definitely a bit rough around the edge but you should see some major improvements in the next week.

What’s different about our podcast directory that separates it from the numerous other podcast directories on the Net? I’ll offer a few things:

1. We only list educational and self-development podcasts. Like I blogged about last week, we’re not trying to be everything to everybody. Rather we’re trying to find the cream of the crop in terms of podcasts that are not only interesting to listen to but also informative and fulfilling. I don’t know of anyone else doing this.

2. We’ve hand-selected all of these podcasts. We’re not just listing anything everybody sends us. We’ve literally listened to hundreds (is it up to thousands yet?) of podcasts to find the “best of the best.” So the total number of podcasts is a good deal lower than most of the directories. That’s by design. As one of our current ads states “We cut through the crap so you don’t have to.”

3. We’re the first people (that I’m aware of) who are tying together podcasts and audiobooks. We figure this makes sense since a person interested in a podcast about wine is probably also interested in an audiobook about wine. At LearnOutLoud.com that’s only a click away.

So that’s our secret sauce. We hope you enjoy. So here’s the link again:

https://www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-Directory

Please give us some feedback by posting in the forum link below. Thanks!