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Podcast: The Future of the Internet (from 1993)

November 28th, 2010 · No Comments · podcast

The NPR show Science Friday pulled one an old show from their archive this week. It dates from 1993, and the topic is the Internet. Normally a show this old wouldn’t be all that interesting, but this is NPR’s first podcast. Also, one of the participants was using VOIP (more likely a pre-VOIP protocol). How [...]

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Vintage launches new monthly podcast

October 5th, 2010 · No Comments · podcast, press release

This looks interesting. Vintage, The Random House Group imprint, announces the launch of the ‘Vintage Podcast’, a thirty-minute monthly arts programme, available to download free from the Vintage Books website, www.vintage-podcast.co.uk , and to subscribe to through iTunes. Download

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Podcast: TKC Ep. #112: James McQuivey

September 10th, 2010 · No Comments · podcast

Len Edgerly has posted another edition of The Kindle Chronicles podcast. This week he covers a tech tip on finding other Kindle owners, interviews James McQuivey (vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research), and leads a discussion session on the recently fixed frozen Kindle bug. Play Download (MP3)

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Podcast – Lewis Hyde interviewed on his book about IP

August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · podcast

Lewis Lapham of Bloomberg interviewed Lewis Hyde, and they discussed Hyde’s book, Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership. They also discussed: Creating Intellectual Property 1710 Statute of Anne The Cultural Commons Corporeal vs. Incorporeal Goods U.S. Piracy I haven’t listened to the podcast, but it looks interesting. You can download it here. via Bloomberg

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Kovid Goyal (creator of calibre) interviewed on a podcast

August 20th, 2010 · No Comments · interview, podcast

UK Ubuntu just posted a podcast yesterday where they interviewed Kovid Goyal.  It was interesting. I was under the impression that he was a  physics professor (now that he had his PhD). No, he works on calibre full time. You can listen to or download the podcast in multiple formats. I selected Play in a [...]

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New Podcast: Kindle Gives Amazon More Bang for Less Bucks

August 9th, 2010 · No Comments · podcast

One of the podcasts I follow a weekly series from PBS Media Shift called 4 Minute Roundup. This week’s podcast is on the Kindle obviously. (Actually, it’s last week’s podcast. I missed it the first time around.) In this week’s 4MR podcast I look at the surprising success of the Amazon Kindle e-reader in the [...]

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New Alex hands on video (by The Reading Edge Podcast)

May 5th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware reviews

Len Edgerly just posted another video over on his blog. He’s pretty good. Click here to download this episode.

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Why Cory Doctorow won’t buy an iPad, pt 2 (podcast)

April 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · opinion

Cory just posted this over on Boing Boing: Last week while I was stranded by the volcano, I did an interview with the TVOntario Search Engine podcast about the iPad and why I thought that its policy and infrastructure should make it a no-go zone for publishers, users and authors. MP3 Link I still disagree [...]

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