Casting the Net Podcast #002 - 20th of April 2006

with Sean FitzGerald & Stephan Ridgway

An extra long one this week. We added a few new segments and we had our first guest.

The next podcast will be delayed by a week, so maybe you can break this one up into two listenings.


  Download the MP3 file (34.2 MB, 1hr 15 mins)

Show Notes

Podcast News

• Our new CTN podcast theme music is by "Synth Light" by Chaser. Sourced from Flash Kit
• Wikipedia definition of Podsafe Music
• We've added a new Odeo audio comments feature (see the end of this post).
• Let us know if you think our file-hosting solution - Ourmedia - is too slow
• The goal of the Internet Archive is to provide "Universal Access to All Human Knowledge."
• Wayback Machine
• PodOmatic

General News

• Steph was involved in a successsful LearnScope 2006 project and Sean was involved in a successful submission for a 2006 E-learning Networks project
• Online Mentoring Network
• Building Online Mentoring Networks and Communities of Practice
• Talking VTE Podcasts

Web 2.0 Watch & Steph's Rant

• Foxylicious - Firefox extension for del.icio.us
• Channel 9 - Microsoft Developers' Network "insider" videoblog
• Sean Alexander (and others) - Windows Vista Sidebar and Gadgets
• Robert Scoble - "Microsoft's" blogger
• Gadgets and widgets - Microsoft Gadgets, Yahoo! Widgets (formerly Konfabulator) , Apple's Dashboard Widgets.
• Personal Start Pages - Microsoft's Start.com, Windows Live, Netvibes, Pageflakes, Google Homepage & Protopage
• Steph's Protopage
• Firefox 1.5 & Firefox Extensions
• Citizen journalism - OhMyNews International, digg & Newsvine

Sean's Rant

• Yahoo!7 - Yahoo! & Channel 7
• Funeral in World of Warcraft - the video at Youtube & Google Video (you may want to fast forward to the action). Discussion at Shoutwire, HFBoards.com & In4mador!
• Rape in Cyberspace - Wikipedia entry & original article by Julian Dibbell

Special Guest - Dianna Khabbaz

• Cory Doctorow's website
• The 'Craphound' and Digital Guru - CORY DOCTOROW - Debates the Digital Future @ PopcornTaxi - event details
• Audio recording of Doctorow's presentation at Talking VTE
• 11th ANNUAL TCC Worldwide Online Conference - TECHNOLOGY REMIX: WHAT DO STUDENTS SAY?
• Learning Times
• Elluminate
• Second Life

Listener Feedback/Questions

• Audio comment left by Delia Bradshaw on her podcast.
• Article on News.com interviewing Dr. Edward Hallowell on Attention Deficit Trait - Why can't you pay attention anymore?

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