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Podcasting frees up content from the home, and from big companies Nasa is doing it, 14-year-old boys in bedrooms are doing it, couples are doing it, gadget lovers – male and female – are definitely doing it.
It is podcasting – DIY radio in the form of downloadable MP3 audio files.
They can done by anyone who [...]

Not into “Godcasts” but there is a podcast out of Holland -it’s in english- called the Catholic Insider by Father Roderick Vonhögenand and it’s worth a listen. I was listening to Adam Curry’s podcast when he mentioned this podcast and I decided to give it a listen and it’s great.

We announced it already a while back, but now it is official, Morten, Magne and Paul have been recording on new songs for the forthcoming A-ha album. All three of them are contributing to the songwriting, and they seem to have at least 20 – 30 songs to pick from so far. The recordings have [...]

Released last year as a US-only album, Peter Murphy’s “Unshattered” album has been available as expensive import only and has been unavailable since December due to the fact that the US-label Viastar went bust. Finally there is now a European re-release announced for early May via Artful. “Unshattered” reunites Peter with Paul Statham (Dido), producer [...]

Duran Duran: From excesses to restraint
Review
By Dan Nailen
The Salt Lake Tribune
During its first rush of success in the early ’80s, Duran Duran came to represent all the excesses associated with pop music of that era.
    Over-produced, synthesizer-heavy tunes filled the band’s albums, ridiculous wardrobe choices and incoherent plotlines filled their videos and supermodels and [...]

From Billboard via Reuters:
When Billy Idol hits the stage at Stubb’s at the South by Southwest Music Conference March 16 in Austin, he is sure to show some of those young whippersnappers how it’s done.
Idol’s performance is to promote his first album of original material since 1993’s “Cyberpunk.” On March 22, Sanctuary releases “Devil’s Playground.” [...]

CNET News.com
The Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency, or Utopia, has begun construction to lace homes in 14 cities with fiber optic lines. Speeds will begin at a minimum of 100mbps downstream and upstream.
Paul Morris, Utopia’s executive director, compared the infrastructure development to a municipally funded airport. Cities pay for the airport’s construction, private airlines lease [...]

Top 10 iTunes AppleScriptsiTunes on both the Mac and PC is a terrific application, but it has a singular advantage on the Mac—its support of Apple’s scripting language, AppleScript. Don’t know AppleScript? No worries, AppleScript guru, Doug Adams, of Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes offers a list of his favorite iTunes scripts.
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If you are have ‘Pod indecision the following article may help.
Picking Your ‘PodNot terribly long ago, making an iPod buying decision boiled down to exactly one factor: Whether you had the money to pay for it. Now that Apple offers four versions of its diminutive music player, there’s far more to consider than budget.
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Just keeps chugging along ……
CUPERTINO, Calif., March 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 300 million songs from the iTunes® Music Store. Additionally, the benefit single “Across the Universe,” available exclusively on the iTunes Music Store, debuted as number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart [...]