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- Chronicle Podcasts : Street preacher delivers food for souls stomachs
- Hay podcast: Craftsmen whores and Tinariwen | Books | guardian.co.uk
- Female Singer Songwriter To Pioneer Ad-Supported Live Music Videos…
- Pupils on right wavelength
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Chronicle Podcasts : Street preacher delivers food for souls stomachs
San Francisco Chronicle – May 24, 2008
The street people only know him as The Preacherman. Every night after 10 p. he comes to a bullet-riddled corner of the Fruitvale District in East Oakland to read from a Bible to up to 50 homeless people. Then he hands out a few dollars apiece some blankets and food.
Hay podcast: Craftsmen whores and Tinariwen | Books | guardian.co.uk
Guardian Unlimited – May 24, 2008
First up is Richard Sennett and his absorbing new book The Craftsman which challenges the idea that being a craftsmen must necessarily involve manual labour. So could an estate agent be a craftsman? You can hear his reply on the Haycast. Next up is Elizabeth Pisani whose book The Wisdom of Whores has a thesis every bit as eye-catching as its title. Pisani used to be part of what she calls the “Aids mafia” and admits to being involved in the mid-90s in the campaign to talk up the fear of Aids.
Female Singer Songwriter To Pioneer Ad-Supported Live Music Videos…
PR Web – PR Web (press release) – May 24, 2008
According to the Manchester Evening News:"It is a hi-tech showcase for up-and-coming bands designed to give people the chance to experience new bands in bite-sized chunks. "This is the first time an independent content producer is adding adverts to video content distributed over broadband in the UK but the idea is gaining popularity in the United States. Rocketboom the cult US videoblog (or video podcast) which pioneered the idea recently featured advertising for Earthlink a US internet services provider at the end of its videos. The widely popular videoblog currently enjoys a daily viewership of 300000. More recently Napster the online music destination introduced an ad-supported model for its music subscription services which allows US-based customers to listen to every track in their two million song catalogue up to five times for free. Chi-chi Ekweozor the singer songwriter behind the 3 Minute Gig recently left a job as a software engineer to turn her "labour of love" into a fully fledged business. She aims to attract advertisers keen to reach the live music fans that the 3 Minute Gig videos are attracting worldwide.
Pupils on right wavelength
Hartlepool Today – May 24, 2008
The Northern Grid for Learning awards will be held on Wednesday June 18 at the Ramside Hall Hotel Durham. It supports education through ICT in schools across the region. The schoolchildren were taught to use the podcast technology by a team of specialists from Radio Anywhere and the clips can be downloaded from the school’s website. Acting headteacher Mark Atkinson said: “The school is nominated in the Surprise Me category which aims to reward innovation and new ideas in schools. Star FM has helped raise the profile of the school and has helped people outside the school keep up to date with what is happening inside. “The radio station helps to improve the children’s ICT skills enhance their confidence and improve their speech and listening skills. Above all else the children really enjoy doing it.
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Yankton Daily Press – May 24, 2008
Denise Trine PrairieLand RC&D will check into making buttons. Podcasting class information should be better explained. Podcasting can be used to make videos or slide shows for web pages. Members were encouraged to learn how to podcast. A total of 12 geocachers have participated in the treasure hunt. One geocacher was from Colorado. They were checking out the Sandhill Cranes and found the geocache in Aurora.