Catshanghai » netcasts http://www.catshanghai.com/blog Shanghai Blog about Culture, Arts and Technology Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:36:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 © shanghaimat@yahoo.co.uk () shanghaimat@yahoo.co.uk() Shanghai Blog about Culture, Arts and Technology shanghaimat@yahoo.co.uk No no http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Catshanghai http://www.catshanghai.com/blog 144 144 Shanghai Taxi Conversations 2 http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/05/25/shanghai-taxi-conversations-2/ http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/05/25/shanghai-taxi-conversations-2/#comments Fri, 25 May 2007 08:47:16 +0000 shanghaimat http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/05/25/shanghai-taxi-conversations-2/ Shanghai TaxiClick here to listen or download Shanghai Taxi Conversation 2
In this second mini podcast, Clyde reviews two important cultural events that he did not attend. Let’s call this podcast Clyde’s non-review of jazz at JZ and Freaklub’s swansong party.

Photo courtesy of julien.delerue.fr

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Download or stream this podcast by clicking here
This is an experiment to get into podcasting again by recording simple, short and unedited conversations with Clyde and Rowena who have been living and working in Shanghai for the last few years. In addition to teaching English, they have become what Malcolm Gladwell would call connectors getting to know all sorts of people from many different friendship groups and backgrounds. They have some great stories, observations and anecdotes about their travels in Shanghai and China.

This chat was recorded in a taxi using a mobile phone and it may some future tweaking to get the sound levels right.

Photo courtesy of Wangjianshuo

]]> http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/05/17/shanghai-taxi-conversations-1/feed/ 0 Netcasts To Go http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/03/05/netcasts-to-go/ http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/03/05/netcasts-to-go/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:37:04 +0000 shanghaimat http://www.catshanghai.com/blog/2007/03/05/netcasts-to-go/ Podcasts or netcasts are wonderful and are totally free. If you download enough of them, it becomes like having your own personal talk radio station. I subscribe to a whole slew of RSS feeds pushing audio and video downloads into my computer that keep me informed about the world of technology and the world in general. I have never been so well informed and I listen to them in the bathroom when I get up, in the evening when I walk home and at night when I’m getting ready to go to bed. I also play them from time to time during my lessons as a learning resource.

You need to be a little nerdy to get netcasts on to your MP3 player, although Itunes users can easily find netcasts on the Itunes store and sync them onto their Ipods. Otherwise, you need to find the RSS feed, which is an XML file containing details about all the files that need to be downloaded. Then you need to copy the downloaded file onto your portable media player. I have been happily using Ipodder on my Ubuntu computer to do this, but it is not quite as user friendly as Itunes.

Here are some of my favourite netcasts. The http addresses are the RSS feeds you need to subscribe to each netcast. Please note the technology bias and all the video files are in the mp4 format for Ipods. You will also need a media player or computer that can display this type of video file.

BBC Newsnight Video Podcast
Video extracts from late night BBC news programme.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/bbc2/newsnightvideopodcast/rss.xml

BBC Radio Newspod
Daily summary of BBC audio radio news stories from Radio 1,2,4,5
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radionews/bbcradionewspod/rss.xml

BBC Ten O’Clock News
Weekly video summary of BBC Ten O’Clock News.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/bbc1/tenoclocknews/rss.xml

Boag World
Weekly audio netcast about web design with a touch of sarcastic humour
http://feeds.feedburner.com/boagworldpodcast

CNET Buzz Out Loud
Daily light hearted American discussion show about technology news.
http://www.cnet.com/i/pod/cnet_buzz.xml

CNET News
Daily news bulletin from CNET about technology issues.
http://news.com.com/html/ne/podcasts/daily_podcast.xml?tag=txt

Command N
Amber MacArthur’s weekly video podcast about cool websites, technology tips and news
http://feeds.feedburner.com/command-n/mpeg4

Cranky Geeks
Weekly video panel show hosted by infmaous cynical blogger, John C Dvorak. With a range of guests, he discusses a range of technology news stories and generally berates the state of the modern world.
http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/audioblogs/crankygeeks/cg.ipod.xml

Digital Life TV
Twice a week geek video podcast covering the latest in hardware, gadgets, software and Internet issues.
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/audioblogs/DLTVvidcast.xml

BBC Digital Planet
Weekly audio podcast from BBC World Service about global technology trends and issues.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/worldservice/digitalplanet/rss.xml

Geek Brief TV
Daily video podcast about gadgets and technology news.
http://geekbrief.podshow.com/feed.xml

Lab Rats
Weekly video podcast introducing geeky technology topics such as replacing a hard drive in an entertaining and accessible manner
http://www.labrats.tv/feed.xml

Mark Kermode Weekly Film Reviews
He is the Jimi Hendrix of film reviews.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/fivelive/markkermodesfilmreviews/rss.xml

PRI The World
Joint weekly audio production between the BBC and American PBS covering technology, science and environmental issues
http://www.theworld.org/rss/tech.xml

Radio Leo
Selection of excellent technology audio netcasts from Leo Laporte’s TWIT network.
http://leoville.tv/podcasts/leo.xml

SlashDot Review
Daily ten minute review of Digg, Reddit and SlashDot technology stories.
http://content.downloadradio.org/sdr-rss.xml

This Week In Media
Weekly review of media stories and issues with a technology spin.
http://thisweekinmedia.libsyn.com/rss

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The British Humanist Association is horrified about this teaching pack, because they see it is overlooking an evidence based approach in favour of promoting religion in science education. Jeremy Paxman oversaw this debate. You can download it this week using Itunes or another netcast subscription program. Search for Newsnight.

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