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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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.

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,‚Äù explains Captain John Konrad.
The podcast [...]

 

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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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Hayden Black, video podcaster and creator of Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Diary tells us:
“A couple of weeks ago, on Thanksgiving, we were contacted by a Marine Sergeant stationed in Iraq who, along with his unit, are big fans of the show and wanted a special video dedication. We were so surprised and pleased to hear that [...]

 

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Hayden Black, creator of the wry video podcast “Goodnight Burbank,” has launched a new video podcast that is completely different and even more irreverent.
“Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Diary is about a 13 year old girl’s videoblog and her unique take on life,”¬† explains Hayden, “school, friends, parents and living with Bloomberger’s Disease. That’s a genetic condition [...]

 

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LA DJ Steve Boyett, aka DJ Steveboy, sends word that his Podrunner workout-music podcast has crossed the five-million mark, less than 15 months after its debut. Podrunner is a free weekly music mix for runners, power walkers, spinners, or anyone who needs a tempo-based workout.
Boyett originally made the running mixes for his wife, a former [...]

It looks like the good people at Soundtrack.net have figured out one of the tried and true ways to get covered by Podcasting News: do something that involves pirates and podcasting.
Their latest podcast looks at the music for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.
In our longest podcast to date, SoundtrackNet talks with Academy Award-winning [...]

 

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PennSound, a project of the University of Pennsylvania, is a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet. PennSound offers a large variety of digital recordings of poems — currently 1,500 and fast growing — mostly as song-length singles.
“This has never been done before,” said Al Filreis, [...]

Google has introduced a new podcast, the Google Developer Podcast. The podcast is hosted by Dick Wall and Carl Quinn, two Googlers that are part of the Java Posse podcast.
Topics covered will include:

Interviews with Google engineers, discussing areas of their expertise
New features, applications, and APIs that matter to developers
Open source projects that they work on [...]

 

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