Podcasts…

Robert Scoble , ex- strategist of Microsoft retired last month. I heard on BBC. He has joined podtech.

Scobleizer has been one of the most sticky blogs. He thinks Podcasting as a Media for mobile workforce. I can imagine thousands on tube and train stations and bogies busy listening to their favourite podcasts. I dont want to be left behind to know what it is for too long.

Yes! though I had heard enough about podcasts so far, i had not troubled myself to google ‘podcast’ and ‘podcast+XYZ’.

I have come across some expected podcasts (thought not as many of them YET) and some not-so-usual ones.

Expected ones from usual suspects-
Chieftains of TCS,Infy and Wipro talk about Future of IT Services Outsourcing (i didnt expect their first podcast on anything else). It is obvious to see each one of them focussing on the shift from ‘India Centric Delivery’ to ‘Global Mesh of Delivery Centers’. There are facts on market size and thoughts on extending the logic of offshoring from ‘IT Services’ to ‘Consulting’.

1. TCS MD on Global network of IT Services
2. Wipro Chairman’s interview on Offshoring

3. Infy Mentor on Outsourcing Boom

* McKinsey on Demand and Supply of Global Labour [You may not call it a podcast but then you wont regret to listen this 22 minutes of the audio clip that makes it relevant for you if you come from one of the top 8 rich countries or top 22 developing econopmies]

The best part of the podcasts is to listen to those who do not necessarily appear on TV/conferences as often as the above mentioned. Here are two of them here.

4. Prof. Richard Scase on Globalisation: Positions of UK and India

5. Bombay Dreams: Suketu Mehata on ‘Maximum City’

Suketu’s one hour is full of numbers to give you the perspective of Aamchi Mumbai but his lucid style makes it more like a poetry reading. It needs no convincing that 30 months of his research on ‘mumbai’ and his style of articulation makes the book a ‘Must Buy

It will be great to hear the feedback if one of you blog readers have read the book.

Note: I am surprised to see Yahoo ahead of Google on the Podcast search.