Podcast Quickies

Boston Public Garden Gets Audio Tour

Aug 22nd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Corporate Podcasts, Podcast Quickies

Want to see a great example of a podcast audio tour?
The Friends of the Public Garden in Boston have launched a Public Garden Audio Tour podcast, a self-guided audio walking tour. The audio tour is available as a free download at the Friends of the Public Garden website, and as a podcast on iTunes. Visitors [...]



18 Park Service Podcasts

Jul 29th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Podcast Quickies

The US National Parks Service is getting into podcasting in a big way, and now offers 18 park service podcasts and virtual tours, offering hundreds of audio and video programs that you can get from park websites or iTunes.
The podcasts include:

Acadia NP
Antietam National Battlefield
Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP
Canyonlands NP
Clara Barton National Historic Site
Curecanti National [...]



Get Steve Jobs Keynote Videos With Apple Keynotes Podcast

Jun 9th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcast Quickies, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

The Apple Keynotes podcast offers video of the company’s most important announcements, including CEO Steve Jobs keynotes.
It hasn’t been updated with today’s keynote yet, but it has the last two Macworld keynotes & the March 6 iPhone Software Roadmap event.



Usher Launches Video Podcast; Take That And Rewind It Back

May 30th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Corporate Podcasts, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcast Quickies, Video Podcasts

R&B star Usher has launched a video podcast, Ucast, to coincide with the release of his latest CD, Here I Stand
10 initial video podcast episodes are planned, offering viewers a behind the scenes view of launching an album, producing a video and preparing for a tour.
“The entertainment business is much more than the red carpets [...]



Official Blade Runner Podcast

May 10th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcast Quickies, Video Podcasts

The official Blade Runner podcast may be a promo tie-in for the 25th Anniversary DVD of the classic sci-fi film, but it’s also the official Blade Runner podcast.
Queue the Love Theme.
To subscribe, add this podcast URL to your podcast software:
http://wired.uk.com/BladeRunnerDVDUKPodcast.xml



Podcast Explains History Of “Take Me Out To The Ballgame”

May 2nd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Corporate Podcasts, Podcast Quickies

The latest episode of NYT’s Only In New York podcast celebrates the history of Take Me Out To The Ballgame.
The lyricist was Jack Norworth, a 29-year-old actor and monologist, who was performing that spring at Hammerstein’s in Midtown, and who had already written another classic, “Shine On Harvest Moon.�
Supposedly, Norworth was riding the old Ninth [...]

 
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Cory Doctorow Releases New Book As Podcast

Mar 13th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Podcast Quickies

Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow is releasing his latest book, True Names, as a free audio podcast.
The book, a novella co-authored with Benjamin Rosenbaum, involves galactic wars between vast, post-Singularity intelligences that are competing to corner the universe’s supply of computation before the heat-death of the universe.
Here’s what Doctorow has to say about the new podcast:
Ben [...]

 
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Will It Blend Takes On The Writers’ Strike

Jan 28th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcast Quickies

Tom Dickson of the Will It Blend video podcast isn’t letting the Writers’ Strike slow him down.
One more reason why a video podcast about a kitchen gadget is one of the top twenty channels on YouTube.



New Podcast Published From The High Seas

Dec 26th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Podcast Quickies

Messing About In Ships is a new weekly maritime podcast. The podcast is unique in that it is recorded and published from the high seas.
‚ÄúI was lucky to be assigned a ship with satellite technology that allows me to record our podcast ‘Messing About In Ships’ regardless of my location,‚Äů explains Captain John Konrad.
The podcast [...]

 
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They Might Be Giants Intro Kids Podcast

Dec 17th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Podcast Quickies, Video, Video Podcasts

They Might Be Giants have introduced a new podcast for kids, TMBG’s Friday Night Video Podcast For Kids.
You can preview the podcast below.
To subscribe, add this feed URL to your podcast client:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/theymightbegiants/
via Wired

 
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