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Austrialian IT has an article on podcasting. Nothing new if you have been following the whole podcasting thing, but if you haven’t … check it out.

Ex-Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett said he expects to return to Parliament Tuesday following a weekend health scare.
A British woman was arrested for breaking in to George Michael’s house in London and is undergoing psychiatric evaluation at a London hospital. This is the second time that this wack job has broken into his house.
According to [...]

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British singer Marc Almond, who suffered severe head injuries in a motorcycle crash last month, says he is recovering well and that the “darker days of the ordeal” are hopefully behind him.
Almond, who had a worldwide hit in 1981 with “Tainted Love” as part of the duo Soft Cell, was the passenger on a bike [...]

Following a week spent at home in bed early last month suffering from exhaustion, guitarist Andy Taylor has been taken ill again and won’t be able to resume work with Duran Duran until the New Year, when the band plan to embark on a 2005 world tour, that will kick off in Japan in late [...]

U2’s new album “How to Dismantle an Atom Bomb” is available on iTunes for $9.99. You also get a “digital” booklet with it.

Also available from iTunes is a Digital Boxset of 446 tracks from U2 consisting of their albums, some single and eps with some unreleased stuff. The set goes for $149.00 and is available [...]

Duran Duran will appear on an episode of the NBC Television show Las Vegas. They will tape their appearance in December, air date TBA. [via DuranDuran.com]

Life is good!

Tod Maffin in his “I Love Radio” blog has his 5 point roadmap for the future of podcasting.

From all Apple:
iPod Updater 2004-11-15 includes iPod mini Software 1.2 for iPod mini and iPod Software 3.0.2 for Click Wheel iPod. iPod Updater 2004-11-15 also contains the same iPod software included in iPod Updater 2004-10-20 for all other iPod models.
Download and install the iPod Updater 2004-11-15 then connect your iPod, iPod photo or iPod mini [...]

Duran Duran will be on The Tony Danza Show on December 10th!

Goth rockers The Cure are enjoying an unexpected revival, but frontman Robert Smith isn’t letting it go to his head …. [Reuters via Yahoo]

ABC Radio is starting a new service for the fans of Sean Hannity’s radio show. For $5.95 a month they can download the entire show (or past shows from the archive) without commercials and play it back on their computer or MP3 player (iPod). They will also get their own messenger service so they interact [...]

Creative Technology Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Sim Wong Hoo told reporters in Singapore his company plans to spend US$100 million in 2005 in a marketing war aimed squarely at Apple Computer Inc.’s iPod. “The MP3 war has started and I am the one who has declared war,” Hoo said…. [Reuters]

The NBA has banned iPods from pre game warm-ups.

Former Van Halen frontman is training to become a paramedic in New York.

The new version of the Band Aid single “Do They Know It’s Christmas” had it’s world premiere on BBC radio. [BBC]

Duran Duran’s new album Astronaut is available on iTunes for $9.99. It comes with the bonus track Virus which isn’t on the U.S. release, though it is on the Japanese release. You can get it here. (you have to have iTunes installed)

BBC is maintaining a blog on the Band Aid 20 recording today.

The N.Y. Times (free registration required) has an article about Apple vs. Microsoft in the digital music arena. It’s a good read and will see if Apple will maintain it’s dominance in the online music and MP3 player arena, given the resources that Microsoft can bring to the table. Though I might add that [...]