I’ve been listening to podcasts for about five years now, as well as producing more than a couple of my own, and over that time my tastes have changed quite a bit. Looking back over the shows I’ve enjoyed in the past, I note much less podfade than I might have imagined. More often I’ve simply grown tired of a given shows format (which tends, as with radio programmes, to remain extremely static once a successful approach has been developed). Here’s a list of what I’m currently listening to. I …

I’ve launched a new podcast called ‘The Invisible Tour Guide’. It’s my first foray into the medium since Technoloics, the humorous technology and politics vidcast I co-presented with Jason McCandless and Francis McGillicuddy, shut it’s doors way back in 2006. I’ve wanted to get back into podcasting for quite a while now. Technolotics was an ungodly amount of work to get edited on a weekly basis, but enormously satisfying. There’s something deeply cleansing about about a net producer, rather than consumer of entertainment.
I’ve kept involved in audio production, producing …

Over the past year, I’ve contributed a handful of readings to the wonderful Starship Sofa science fiction podcast. Ciaran O’Carroll and Tony C. Smith began the show in 2006, as an in depth discussion of the life and works of a variety of New Wave and Golden Age Science Fiction authors. Ciaran left the show last year, but far from this being the harbinger of podfade, it spurred Tony on to new heights of fevered podcasting activity. The Sofa began to acquire the audio rights to a host of science …

I spent about eight hours yesterday working out how to do this. A working method was surprisingly hard to come by, so hopefully this will be of use to someone. Luckily it’s really easy once you know how. This technique should work not just for YouTube, but any other flash video site, like Google Video, DailyMotion etc.

This weeks award winning episode of radio show and podcast ‘This American Life‘, addresses the issue of Habeas Corpus. Broadly speaking, Habeas Corpus is the right of a prisoner to apply to be brought before a court to have the legality of their detention adjudicated. ‘This American Life’ examines how it’s suspension for detainees of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, and in secret extraterritorial prisons run by the CIA, has effected their treatment. The episode includes eye opening interviews with two former inmates of ‘Gitmo’.
In addition to providing a predictably terrifying …

Just back from Barcamp Ireland 3. What a day, so packed I couldn’t possibly get to half the talks (which ran concurrently), but I managed three lectures and the panel discussion. The event was held in the beautiful Digital Hub, off Thomas St in Dublin. The building is fantastic, with bare brick walls and natural lighting throughout, and would make a fantastic billionaires studio apartment.
I’ve posted some wikified notes. I grabbed several mini interviews, on TFM‘s sweet but pricey Roland wav recorder (check out the uber cheesy website), not enough …

I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts lately, and one of the things I’ve noticed is that with podcasts – as with many areas of search where the desired result is loosely defined – it’s difficult to find new things to your taste. I’ve put together a short podcast outlining the stuff I’m listening to at the moment. Hope it’s of use to some of you.
Download: Podcasting Eats Itself – 17.9megs

Here are links to the shows I recommend in the podcast..
This American Life
1 Up Yours
Two Irish Geeks and a …

Seems like Technolotics has been nominated (not by me, I’d have picked a better episode!) for a Vidcast Award at this years Irish blog awards. If you liked the show, you can vote for it here. We were nominated for two episodes, clearly in a sly attempt to split the hordes of eager voters, so just select Episode #44 – Flying Naked if you don’t have a preference.
While you’re at it, if you’re short on recommendations you could do worse than throw in a vote for..
Two Irish Geeks for best …

Just came across this article, via the swearing lady. Apparently Technolotics was mentioned in ye olde paper blog, The Irish Times.

If many young students are not yet using modern technology to express themselves, three have done so successfully. Technolotics.com is billed as an irreverent look at technology, politics and the media by three Irish students and for a year it stood as one of the few Irish videoblogs.
Technolotics is cheap and cheerful and it proves an important point. Viewers don’t need RTE-grade production values to engage with new personalities. …

Finally got around to editing my audiolog from America. Doesn’t quite make sense as a podcast, but what the hey!

Listen:
Download:
High Quality – East Coast, West Coast 128k, 44.8megs
Low Quality – East Coast, West Coast 64k, 22.4megs
While I was at the anti DRM demonstration at Apples 5th avenue store, I also interviewed a member of New Yorker’s for Fair Use, Jay Sulzberger. The interview was too long to include in the program, but if you’re interested in issues surrounding DRM, net neutrality or wiretapping, check it out below.
Interview …