Not in code

I’ve missed my weekly dose of pre-packaged knowledge since finishing my Masters degree so I was pleased when I discovered that several universities now offer free podcasts.

In particular I enjoyed listening to the first episode of the Marketing Podcast by Peter Wagstaff. It appears to be designed to accompany MKF1120 a marketing subject taught at Monash University in Melbourne. The first episode is arranged as a conversation between Peter and a guy called Julian Cole (the “good looking” one apparently). They discuss product placement as an alternative to traditional advertising which they say consumers have lost interest in for the most part. They use Big Brother Australia as a case study as it seems almost entirely a product placement or advertising exercise.

If you’d like to learn a little about marketing and share my propensity for laziness I suggest you give this podcast a whirl. All in all I think it’s pretty well made and I will probably continue listening to the remaining and any future episodes.

Finally, a few universities with free podcasts are:

• University of Sydney
• University of Melbourne
• Stanford University
• University of California, Berkley (one isn’t enough!)

If you know of any other good, university podcasts please let me know by emailing me. Comments are still broken, sorry.