Say goodbye to Imus and radio

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
I won't miss Imus, I gave up listening to radio long ago. Regular radio was far too crude, especially before my morning coffee and NPR was always begging for money. Luckily a few years back podcasts started showing up. Some are classes, some are serialized novels, some are radio type shows. Almost all are free. The easiest way to manage them is to subscribe through iTunes ( which is free from Apple if you don't already have it ) iTunes will automatically check for new episodes and download them for you. You can listen to them on your computer or any portable mp3 player. Here's some of my favorites: Scott… Read More

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Other search engines and Yahoo’s new search engine

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Every one knows Google It's tough to beat Google's search results. But Yahoo has a nice new search engine it is testing. You get the usual results along with wiki, you tube, flickr and other results all together in an easy to use format. This one might put Yahoo back in the competition. If you are having trouble finding something also try: Look Smart Vivisimo dmoz Snap Gigablast There are… Read More

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Online Classes and Education

Monday, January 8th, 2007

It has been a while since I looked at this stuff but OpenCulture (sidebar link ) had an article today on iTunes university courses. Many of the sites I had bookmarked with open courses are gone or suffering from link rot. Here are places you can take classes via mp3, or class notes, or videos of the lectures online.

Might be a good time to learn something new or take a refresher course while we all wait for spring.

Classes

Open Culture's University Podcast Collection

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