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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Actor Stephen Fry, beloved at our house for his early 1990’s stint as P.G. Wodehouse’s butler/hero Jeeves, has turned his creative attention to podcasting. Calling his subscribeable, downloadable audio a “podgram,” the first episode details the story of breaking arm on a movie-making trip to the Amazon.
The enhanced podcast is available via his site, StephenFry.com, [...]

Open Source nerds, rejoice: This week, The Linux Foundation is launching a podcast series, Open Voices, featuring conversations with “the leaders of open source.”
The series kicks off with the first of a two-part conversation with with Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux Operating System, and fellow at the Linux Foundation. Part II will be [...]

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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Actor, writer, and former Python John Cleese has published an enhanced podcast, his own unique interpretation (parody, really) of Clement Moore’s famous poem, The Night Before Christmas.
Quoth the John Cleese podcast blog:

“Assembled around a blazing fire, families eat themselves sick, drink themselves silly, and fight for their entertainment options with unaccustomed ferocity. So, in order [...]

 

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The Culinary Institute of America (the other CIA) has a podcast series, entitled, “Insight From The Inside.” The program gives listeners a glimpse inside the prestigious culinary college through the eyes and personal testimonials of its students.
“Insight From The Inside” also includes interviews with some of the CIA’s celebrity chef alumni. The current episode features [...]

UNICEF has published the first in a series of podcast discussions on education in emergencies and post-crisis transition countries, with the participation of leading figures from the academic, development, media and humanitarian communities. Entitled ‘Beyond School Books’, the podcast series highlights the important role of education in countries affected by conflicts or natural disasters or [...]

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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