Podcast Quickies

Video Podcast Reveals Secrets Of Spore

Sep 25th, 2008 | By | Category: Podcast Quickies, Video Podcasts

SporeTV (iTunes link) is a new video podcast from Electronic Arts that looks at the hugely hyped video game Spore.  The first episode is a discussion of the development of Spore with creator Will Wright.



Free Podcast Features Classical Guitar Music

Aug 29th, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Music, Podcast Quickies, Podcast-Legal Music

The University of Utah’s Classical Guitar Podcast (iTunes link) features classical guitar audio and video podcasts. The podcasts feature performances of works by Tárrega, Torroba, Berkeley and others, as well as original compositions by Tully Cathey, a classical and jazz guitarist who teaches at the College of Fine Arts. Image: ycguitar814



Boston Public Garden Gets Audio Tour

Aug 22nd, 2008 | By | 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. […]



18 Park Service Podcasts

Jul 29th, 2008 | By | 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 […]



Get Steve Jobs Keynote Videos With Apple Keynotes Podcast

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

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 | 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 […]



Official Blade Runner Podcast

May 10th, 2008 | By | 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 | 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 […]



Cory Doctorow Releases New Book As Podcast

Mar 13th, 2008 | By | 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‚Äôs supply of computation before the heat-death of the universe. Here’s what Doctorow has to say about the […]



Will It Blend Takes On The Writers’ Strike

Jan 28th, 2008 | By | 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.