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POPSA “Podcast Paradise” at Second Life Podcast Island is the SL home of PodcastPickle.com community - and it's one of the best places at Second Life I've ever seen by now. A great example of a functional and fun presence of a web site & community in Second Life. If you are interested, read the whole review on my blog.
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POPSPalestine Peace Not Apartheid Carter is doing his best to help fight terrorism by trying to ease the tensions between Israel and Palestine. He says that allowing Israel to oppress the Palestinians is the source of much of the Arab antipathy toward America. I've always admired Carter. Now I respect him even more.
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POPSWeb2.0 and more web2.0 I just clipped a tiny tiny portion of this site. Go to the source for more than enough to make the geekiest geek's head spin. Just kidding I think. This is really a treasure trove of web 2.0 resources. Even the might Clipmarks is proudly listed.
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POPSBest way to embed a Flash-based MP3 player in your page A highly customizable Flash player that you can easily embed in your website or blog. Plays MP3 files or RSS/XSPF playlists. This is the player used in the excellent Grazr.com OPML browser. For a quick, easy howto on using these scripts, see this blog post .
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POPSGoogle Top Searches 2006 Simple people have voted their persons and their concerns for people of the year 2006. It is remarkable to see that issues such as cancer, bankruptcy and autism are included in the top 10 of news searches amongst others not so .. serious searches!
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POPSThe last, best day for newspapers I used to work at the Post and it was exciting to walk by the office yesterday and see a line of people clamoring for the paper. But I think it's the last, best day for the printed paper. I wonder if the Post will ever sell so many copies again? People like souvenirs of history, but how often does history happen? Before deadline? And able to get on the front page of the paper? It's just not that often. When it happens again in 10, 15, 20 years, will the lines be as long? I'm optimistic about the future of journalism. But I think the physical printed project, though probably not destined to go away completely, is still set to decline in numbers for very many years.
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POPSHelp us wish Derek K. Miller a Happy Birthday Derek has recently been diagnosed with a very lethal cancer. I've been a fan of his music for a while and used it in quite a few podcasts - Derek's an amazing example of someone who puts good work out there for others to use just for the joy of doing it. The podcasting community is rallying to send him some good wishes today.
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POPSPodCamp "UnConference" in Boston I listen to a lot of podcasts, read a ton of blogs and participate in several social communities and I have heard so many great things about PodCamp.
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POPSChinesePod Free Language Learning I have been using this site for a while now, the ChinesePod, which they do free podcasts with useful real life Chinese. This helps me augment my other Chinese language lessons. Download to your iPod or listen on your desktop system, etc. Pretty cool deal.
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POPSWhat do we Google? The nr 5 top 'how to' query was 'how to scream'. Do so many folks really honestly not know how to do this?? Amazing... Well, you take a hammer with your right hand and then aim at your thumb on your left hand and then.....*bang*.... end of lesson! Go the site and check the tabs too. (Alternative lesson: Check Bush's resumé...chuckle chuckle)
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POPSAmazing Academic Podcasting Resource Jeffrey Daniel Fey's blog is a treasure chest of insight and information in the area of academic podcasting. The headlines above are all articles I can't wait to sit down and study. If your institution is considering podcasting for staff or faculty, do yourself a favor and read Jeffrey's blog.