If you haven't listened to The Daily Source Code [subscribe via the link or through iTunes] you're missing something. This is the podcast produced daily by podcast pioneer Adam Curry. First, he's wonderful to listen to. Smart, funny, self-deprecating, utterly relaxed - and thoroughly professional. A combination we're not seeing enough of - yet - in podcasting.
Oh, and he plays great music, although no longer - unfortunately - cool mashups combining licensed songs. Podsafe means music that is not royalty-protected. This is a big issue in podcasting that I won't go into here.
Second, Adam is behind Podsafe for Peace whose first effort is If Every Day Were Christmas [listen here], a collaborative song by 32 singers in 9 countries. You can purchase (and download) the song for a mere 99 cents (U.S.). All proceeds go to UNICEF to help needy children around the world.
Hope you'll click here to purchase the song and take part!
Useful link
Wikipedia definition of podcasting
[via NevOn]
Previous Comments
Ken Carroll said on December 29, 2005 at 04:53 AM
Hi Debbie,
You may be interested in the podcasting business model that we’ve put together. If you check out http://www.ChinesePod.com, you’ll see that we use podcasting to teach Mandarin. We supplement the podcasts with online support for a paid subscription.
Mandarin is a niche kind of thing to study but wev’e had 500,000 lesson downloads in 3 months, so I think this points to how podcasting and language teaching go together.
I’m also very interested in how podcasting will change the the language training industry - language schools, audio books, distance learning etc. I think the answer is ‘radically’. I write on how the new web tools (blogs, podcasting, IM, wikis, etc) are all essentially tools for communication. My belief is that these will radically transform our industry - and many others. My blog: http://www.suixuan.com/blog
As an English teacher of many years I appreciate effective writing when I see it. Good work
Elaine said on December 25, 2006 at 10:06 PM
Hi,Debbie,
Podcasting in language studing seems very popular these days. Here is one website use flash animation to teaching Chinese. It’s really of fun and use.
Check it out!
http://www.activechinese.com
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