Apparently, appearing on Jeopardy makes you podcast-popular. I appeared on seemingly endless podcasts from October to December.Here are a few highlights:

• The Incomparable: All about my Jeopardy run, along with discussions of the game-show genre, especially Andy Ihnatko's favorite, The Amazing Race.
• The Talk Show with John Gruber: we talked Jeopardy, my job at The Magazine, Microsoft's Surface, Apple job shuffles, and more.
• Horace Dediu, the smartest mobile industry analyst, runs Asymco, but has a podcast called Critical Path. He launched a second one with interviews called High Density starting with yours truly. I explained some of the economic issues with Jeopardy, told him what I know about how The Economist works, and discussed modern journalism.
• Marketplace Tech Report had me on to talk about algebraic data packet oversampling (seriously), but they also quizzed me about my game show experience.
• David Sparks and Katie Floyd invited me on to

Hey, I was on public radio's Talk of the Nation: Science Friday. I spoke with host Ira Flatow about Google's purchase of Motorola and the competitive landscape of smartphones and tablets. What a treat. Great interviewer, smart guy, and it is fun to be on national radio.If you prefer your radio in written form, there's a transcript available (free, not like the olden days) on the Web.

The Incomparable! A regular media critique podcast by geeks, for geeks, about geeky stuff. Jason Snell, Macworld magazine's editorial director, is the evil genius behind it. A rotating cast of Igors, van Heslings, Doctor's companions, and red shirts killed late in the episode will fill out the cast.Our first discussion: sci-fi novels. Yeah, I say sigh-fie. I don't care who says skiffy. From the show notes for episode 1: The Incomparable Participants: Glenn Fleishman, Scott McNulty, Dan Moren, and Jason Snell. The Incomparable Theme Song composed by Christopher Breen. Prominently mentioned in this Incomparable episode:

• "The City & The City" by China Miéville
• "The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi
• "For the Win" by Cory Doctorow

Oh, we're going to talk about the Doctor in a future episode. Don't you worry. Ah ha ha ha ha mwah ha ha.

Public radio has this thing they call a driveway moment. (Oh, Mary, mother of God, it's not just something they call a driveway moment, it's something they have obtained a service mark for--so it's a Driveway Moment[sm].)

Anyway, the idea is that you are listening to a story so compelling that when you arrive at your destination, like your home driveway, instead of turning off the radio (how quaint, listening to a live broadcast but that's the demographic), you sit in your car and listen to the rest of the piece.

There are a lot of implications in that which have to do with the driveway. You drive a car. You have a driveway. You have the time (or will make the time) to sit in the car instead of going instead. You got it: 40-60 year old Caucasians living in suburbs.

Anyway, again, the modern driveway moment

Howdy, loyal listeners! (If you don't know what I'm talking about, visit KUOW's Web page for Sound Focus--a show on which I appear weekly--listen to streaming media or subscribe to the podcast, and donate! It's fundraisin' season.)

This week, we talked about the Starbucks/Apple deal for iTunes access and what's playing in the stores; Amazon.com's protection-free MP3 beta store; and coffee mugs that have Pantone colors printed on them, coffee colors printed inside, or, in one I didn't mention, typefaces on the mug combined with coffee colors.

KUOW has set up a podcast feed (or rather continued an existing one) for The Works, the segment in which I'm a guest every Wednesday at 2.07 pm on The Beat. You can also subscribe via iTunes. This week, I talked about Link Love, or why Google loves some sites more than others. I also mention splogs, comment spam, and even mention blam!