CBC dips the whole foot in the podcasting waters | Social Signal

Okay, so it isn't the revolution. But it's a big step forward for the CBC as Radio One unleashes a whole bunch of new podcasts on an unsuspecting public.

Every day will bring a new edition of a particular podcast:

• Monday - The Best of Ideas
• Tuesday - Dispatches
• Wednesday - The Best of Outfront
• Thursday - The Best of The Current
• Friday - The Best of As It Happens
• Saturday - Quirks & Quarks
• Sunday - The Best of DNTO

That enough for you? Wait, don't answer – there's more, updated with varying frequency:

• CBC Radio 3
• Sounds Like Canada: The Digital Extra
• CBC Radio Editor's Choice
• Words at Large
• Word of the Week

Still got some room on that iPod? There's also a weekly roundup of stories from every region of Canada.

The upshot is a dramatic multiplication of the CBC's podcast offerings, with a promise of more to come. This has to be pretty gratifying for the broadcaster's in-house tech visionary and podcast evangelist, Tod Maffin, who's done a lot to make this happen. Online communities around each podcast would be a natural next step, but this is terrific progress.