Archive for June, 2006

Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

Blurring the lines even further, we present an interesting angle on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, read to us from Some Guy from New York. Some guy from New York, who has been ordered to remain anonymous, has been instructed by the courts to conduct a line by line discussion of each of the sonnets. Despite his lack [...]

Summer help!

Monday, June 12th, 2006

Faithful Readers and Diligent Authors – A note of appreciation to everyone. This summer has presented an interesting set of challenges, all of them stemming from the fact that we at Podiobooks.com are simply too busy for our own  good and have a hard time saying “no” to anything. Hutch and Rich are doing a  [...]

Great Moments In History

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

Great Moments in History is a collection of ten momentous events in World and American history, covered by live, on-the-spot newscasters. These are “first-hand” dramatizations enhanced by full-range, professional sound effects. Experience real historic events as they happen: – Charge with the Athenians at Marathon; die with the Spartan 300 at the tragedy of Thermopylae; [...]

Issues with the last updates?

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

If you had a problem downloading new chapters from the past weekend, try again.  My wonderous computer (which is dying and will soon be replaced by my new Macbook), crapped out when uploading some of the file, but reported that everything uploaded fine. The bastard.  So, he’s been sacked, and the new chapters have been [...]

Podiobooks.com and Escape Pod at the PME

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

Last year’s Portable Media Expo was a blast. Not only did I get to hold Podcasting for Dummies in my hand for the first time, I also got to meet a bunch of very nice people in the podosphere. Within hours of arriving, it was obvious that I would be going back. This year, I’m [...]

An Irregular Miscellany: A selection of essays and lectures from the Common University

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Throughout the 1920s the Common University provided a free and ready source of education to the working classes of England through various lecture series and the distribution of educative pamphlets in the East End. At the time it renowned as a philanthropic exercise noted more for its good intentions than its practice of asking for [...]