Firaxis Games, home of legendary game designer Sid Meier and the creators of Civilization IV and other games, has introduced a podcast that provides a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to make video games. In the first episode of The Official Firaxis Games Podcast, host Steve Ogden talks to the company’s Quality Assurance manager […]

St. John Ambulance, a UK charity organization, is using podcasting to help distribute first aid information. The First Aid Advice podcasts provide information on situations ranging from treating shock (MP3) to dealing with severe wounds (MP3). The organization plans to releast new podcasts every Wednesday throughout the summer, covering treatment for a wide range of […]

Coolgorilla has introduced its first iPod Translator, a German guide. The Translator has a user-friendly menu system to provide access of over 750 MP3s of German words and phrases. You simply select the phrase you require in English and play the German translation. “We are proud to be partnering with internet legends lastminute.com who have […]

Anystream has announced Apreso Podcast, an enterprise podcasting solution that lets institutions of higher education make any lecture, anywhere on campus, available for playback on Apple iPods, iTunes or any MP3 player. Available as a campus-wide license, Apreso Podcast lets universities offer lecture review by automating the many tasks required to capture, encode, manage and […]

A Purdue University professor is taking podcasting beyond the typical course lecture audio by using a variety of movie making techniques – and comedy borrowed from South Park, Will Ferrell and Jeff Foxworthy – to increase students’ ability to learn in the classroom. Laurie Iten, an associate professor of biology, produces 5-10 minute online video […]

American University Washington College of Law introduced podcasts with the arrival of the 2005 class, and after a school year of podcasting, the College is considers the program a success. To date, the 200+ episodes have been downloaded almost 65,000 times. ‚ÄúThe primary goal of WCL‚Äôs Office of Technology,‚Äù says Dean Claudio Grossman, ‚Äúis to […]

Electronica artist Ryuichi Sakamoto has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the risks of nuclear energy, featuring a podcast featuring free music tracks and videos by Sakamoto, Thomas Dolby and others. The Rokkasho-mura reprocessing plant in Japan‚Äôs Aomori Prefecture opened for testing on March 31st, 2006. Less than two weeks later, 40 liters of […]

Popular Science is podcasting. The podcast features Jonathan Coulton, talking to the movers and shakers of sci-tech….and singing.

Actress and environmental advocate Daryl Hannah is looking outside of traditional media to connect with an audience that she feels that mainstream media ignoring. She’s using a video blog (Daryl Hannah’s Love Life) and indie documentaries to cover what’s happening in the area of green lifestyles and “extreme activism.” “The fact that there’s not any […]

GetGoingTraining.com has released Get Going with GarageBand 3¬ù, a DVD and QuickTime download offering in-depth training and tutorials for Apple’s GarageBand 3. The tutorials include: GarageBand Studio Setup, Recording Audio & Midi, Editing Audio & Midi, Creating a Podcast and a Movie Score for iDVD and QuickTime Video. A video preview is available.