≡ Category: Podcast Articles and Resources, Technology | ≅ Comments
With all the recent talk about podcasts, you may have wondered how you can create your own. How can you record and distribute via podcast whatever valauble things you have to say? We have recently come across some helpful material that seemed worth highlighting for you.
Podcast Academy
At Boston University, Podcast Academy recently held a two-day [...]
≡ Category: Books, Literature | ≅ Comments
Courtesy of the radio program Open Source, we get an intriguing and wideranging interview with Philip
Roth, where he talks candidly about his latest and 27th novel Everyman, a work that takes an existentially anguishing look at the end of life. We also get Roth reading from other past novels, talking about the day-to-day practice [...]
≡ Category: Technology | ≅ Comments
If you’re a savvy technologist, you’ve heard a lot about the debate over "net neutrality." If you’re not, then you should get up to speed on the issue because it could change the face of the web as you know it.
Bill Moyers recently put together an excellent program looking at the Faustian bargain that Congress [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ Comments
Since we’re talking a lot about podcasts these days, it seemed reasonable to mention that our foreign language lesson podcasts got a little mention on the latest episode (#77) of Diggnation, the weekly podcast put out by Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, and Alex Albrecht. Our podcast collection now has 1877 "diggs," and so [...]
≡ Category: Philosophy, Religion | ≅ Comments
It’s not quite “Car Talk,” but it’s not terribly far away. Philosophy Talk, a weekly public radio program presented by two Stanford philosophy professors, offers a “down-to-earth and no-nonsense approach” to philosophy that’s engaging, if not entertaining. The show, which can be streamed from the web site, tends to range widely. In recent weeks, they’ve [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ Comments
This is just a quick heads up that we have added audiobook podcasts to our larger podcast collection. You’ll find here 40+ major literary and philosophical works. Mark Twain, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allen Poe – they are all here, and the list will continue to grow. In [...]
≡ Category: Books, Literature | ≅ Comments
Let’s go into Christmas on the right note, with a free podcast of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. (Find it here on iTunes.) Written in 1843, Dicken’s tale remains one of the most popular Christmas stories of all time. It gave us the indelible characters of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ Comments
The Abu Ghraib prison scandal first exploded into public light in April 2004 when reports and photographs of torture were revealed in a daring New Yorker article written by Seymour Hersh. At a conference recently held at Stanford, entitled Thinking Humanity After Abu Ghraib, Hersh and a panel of experts came together to think through [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ Comments
If you want to know what the world’s leading thinkers are saying, you’ll want to check out the University Channel. Organized by Princeton, but accessing materials from other major academic institutions across the world, the University Channel puts online important speeches made by prominent figures, often coming from the world of public and international affairs. [...]
≡ Category: Media | ≅ Comments
This past week, TIME Magazine named "you" — the one of many millions of web users — the person of the year. TIME’s current cover story
explains why the story of 2006 wasn’t one shaped by a "great man," as
it usually is, but by a community of web users "on a scale never seen
before." It’s a [...]
≡ Category: Books | ≅ Comments
Here is a quick tidbit for the reader who doesn’t like buying books sight unseen. Each week, The New York Times posts on its web site the full text of the first chapter of books reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, or which otherwise appear on the NYT bestseller lists. You can find [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ Comments
As the celebration of Mozart’s 250th birthday winds down, the International Mozart Foundation has
offered up a nice gift to Mozart enthusiasts by putting online the master’s full body of work. This web site, called the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, lets visitors explore over 600 individual works, or 24,000 pages of music, which were formerly available only [...]
≡ Category: Stanford | ≅ Comments
Yes, we’re on a little bit of an iTunes roll here this week. But no one
seems to be complaining. Next up from Stanford, it’s The Historical Jesus. Like the Modern Theoretical Physics course that we previewed earlier, this class was originally taught in Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program, and it’s also aimed at the general [...]
≡ Category: Science, Stanford | ≅ Comments
This is hot off the press, so to speak. Today, Stanford posted a new podcast of a course called Modern Theoretical Physics: Quantum Entanglement. It’s intriguing on several different levels. First, it’s in video. Second, the course is presented by Leonard Susskind, who is generally considered the father of string theory, a controversial innovation [...]
≡ Category: Apple, History, Most Popular | ≅ Comments
What’s the most popular podcast in the Higher Education section of iTunes? Ahead of all the podcasts from Princeton, and all of those from Yale, and ahead of the Understanding Computers course from Harvard, and even the psychology course from UC Berkeley, is an unexpected podcast called Twelve Byzantine Rulers: The History of the Byzantine [...]
≡ Category: UC Berkeley | ≅ Comments
Not long ago, we talked about UC Berkeley’s ambitious podcasting initiative, about how the university is currently distributing a large number of courses over iTunes. But there is nothing like giving users some options, and so the university has also decided to make some courses, campus events, and conferences available over Google Video as well. [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ Comments
Our directory of arts & culture podcasts is now 50 programs strong. Here you’ll find smart cultural programs
from NPR, The New York Times, MoMA, Salon, Slate and the BBC. And you’ll find programming originating from the US, the UK, Canada and Australia and even France.
The podcasts are all high-quality, allowing you to spend your [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ Comments
As a follow-up to the Iraqi Experience in Digital, we simply wanted to put alongside one another two excellent podcasts that speak directly to the mounting Iraqi refugee crisis. Taken together they give you an excellent view of this problem.
First, a recent podcast from Open Source, which features interivews with Iraqis who have had to [...]
≡ Category: Foreign Language | ≅ Comments
Because our foreign language lesson podcasts have generated a lot of interest this week, we wanted to mention another intriguing foreign language resource: The Mixxer.
An excellent way to learn a language is to participate in a language exchange. Years ago, when I set out to learn French, I went to Paris and found someone (a [...]
Five years ago, MIT launched an ambitious initiative with its OpenCourseWare project. The concept was fairly simple. It involved putting online the materials from MIT courses — the syllabi, reading lists, course notes, assignments, etc. — and making them available online to the world at large. Benefiting from this initiative were students and faculty across [...]
≡ Category: Books, Literature | ≅ Comments
Google has always shied away from the content creation business. While Yahoo spent precious resources developing expensive content, the Google folks contented themselves with developing technology that organized the rest of the world’s information. And it paid off well. Given this approach, it was somewhat strange to stumble upon an editorialized part of their web [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ Comments
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≡ Category: Politics | ≅ Comments
The vast majority of Americans have only a remote sense of what Iraqis
are experiencing these days. We hear about people dying daily — 10 in a market here, 30 in a mosque attack there — but it comes across as statistics, as numbers divorced from a reality that we can empathize with. In past [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ Comments
Pretty amazing for a blog less than 2 months old. On Friday, Open Culture got its second mention on
The Unofficial Apple Weblog, which gave it some momentum going into the weekend. Saturday was good, but then Sunday was spectacular. By the afternoon, our collection of foreign language podcasts got so many "diggs" on Digg.com
[...]
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Today (Sunday, December 10), the Nobel Prizes will be awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. The Peace Prize
gets awarded early in the day (1:50 pm Central European Time), and then, several hours later, come the rest (starting at 4:30 CET). By clicking on these links, you can watch the ceremonies live over the Net. Stockholm is [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ Comments
If you’re a news junkie, you might want to pretend that you never laid eyes on this … because you might not be sleeping for a while. As promised, we’ve put together a big collection of news podcasts, all available on iTunes. Here, you’ll find over 80 different news programs from major news organizations, starting [...]
≡ Category: Media | ≅ Comments
Here’s a quick little tip for you. Salon.com has a nice collection of audio conversations with figures from the higher echelons of the pop culture world. David Lynch, Pedro Almodóvar, Amy Sedaris, the list goes on. You can access these talks from the Salon.com site, and, along the way, be forced to look at umpteen [...]
≡ Category: Media | ≅ Comments
It may sound a bit strange, but you can now listen to the front page of The New York Times. America’s finest daily paper now offers a series of 22 podcasts on iTunes, which come in daily and weekly flavors. Most are direct spin-offs of popular sections/features of the paper. Here’s a sample of what [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ Comments
Nope, we’re not talking about U2. We’re talking about
John Brockman.
And just who is he? He’s the literary agent of the
intellectual stars. He is to the thinking world what Scott Boras is to baseball.
If you’re a major scientific thinker, and if you can write for the
general public, you’ll likely find yourself in the Brockman stable, and
he’ll [...]
≡ Category: Books | ≅ Comments
The long-awaited Iraq Study Group Report came out today, and, by evening, the book version was already #32 on Amazon.com’s top 100 book list. The book runs about 160 pages, but the substance of the report runs only about 60, and you can spare yourself the $10.95 retail price and simply download it in PDF [...]
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