Interview with Michael Cheney

Hi everyone! Today's podcast is an interview with Prof. Michael Cheney, of the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS). Michael is a professor of Communication at UIS, and also a Senior Fellow at the University-wide Institute for Government and Public Affairs. In this interview, Michael talks about his experiences podcasting in his online class this past fall, as well as his plans to use podcasting in the future.

As always, the orange title at the top of this posting is a direct link to the mp3 file with the podcast. Remember that you can subscribe to these podcasts using the link on the orange POD button at the lower right.

The transcript of this podcast is at:

http://www.online.uillinois.edu/oakley/podcasts/Cheney_Transcript.html

The music in today's podcast is Haydn's Violin and Keyboard Concerto in F - Hob:XVIII.6 - Presto, recorded by the Goldberg Ensemble - see:

http://www.peoplesound.com/artist/thegoldbergensemble/

I wish everyone a happy, healthy, and peaceful new year!

Best regards,

Burks

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Technorati Tags: Michael Cheney, podcast, online learning

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Technorati and the Blogosphere

Hi everyone! Today's podcast is about Technorati - which is primarily a search engine for searching blogs. But you will see that Technorati is much more than just a search engine - it reaches far into the blogosphere.



As always, the orange title at the top of this posting is a direct link to the mp3 file with the podcast. Remember that you can subscribe to these podcasts using the link on the orange POD button at the lower right.

The transcript of this podcast is at:

http://www.online.uillinois.edu/oakley/podcasts/Technorati_Transcript.html

The music in today's podcast is Haydn's Trio in G - Hob. XV:15 - Finale Allegro Moderato, recorded by Badinage - see:

http://www.peoplesound.com/artist/badinage/

Best regards,

Burks

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Here are links to some sites mentioned in the podcast:

Technorati:
http://www.technorati.com/

Burks' profile in Technorati:
http://www.technorati.com/profile/burkso2

Blogs doubling every 5 months:
http://www.dijest.com/bc/2005/03/technorati-view-of-blogosphere-doubles.html

Why blog?
http://www.josschuurmans.com/josschuurmans/2005/06/wwwjosschuurman.html

Technorati Magical Sheep Bookmarklet--Baaaaaaa!
http://consumingexperience.blogspot.com/2005/07/technorati-tag-creator-for-multiple.html

Plug-ins for Technorati:
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=technorati&submitform=Find+search+plugins

Blogger:
http://www.blogger.com/

David Sifry, CEO of Technorati:
http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000343.html
http://www.technorati.com/weblog/2005/10/53.html

Steve Rubel:
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/11/ten_technorati_.html

Prof. Barbara Ganley:
http://mt.middlebury.edu/middblogs/ganley/bgblogging/

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Technorati Tags: Technorati, blogosphere, blogs, Blogger

Helpful Software

Hi everyone! Today's podcast is about helpful software - free software that I regularly use on my Windows computer. I highly recommend that you check out this software and install it on your PC - I'm sure that you will find it to be very useful!

Links to all of the software mentioned in the podcast are at:

http://online.uis.edu/oakley/sp06/pac442b/HelpfulSoftware.html

As always, the orange title at the top of this posting is a direct link to the mp3 file with the podcast. Remember that you can subscribe to these podcasts using the link on the orange POD button at the lower right.

The transcript of this podcast is at:

http://www.online.uillinois.edu/oakley/podcasts/HelpfulSoftware_Transcript.html

The music in today's podcast is Telemann's Parisian Quartet in A minor - Vivace, recorded by The Academy Ensemble - see:

http://www.peoplesound.com/artist/theacademyensemble/

Best regards,

Burks

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Technorati Tags: software, Firefox, spyware, Picasa, iTunes

All about Google

Hi everyone! Today's podcast is about Google - the company that is best known for its Internet search engine. But there is MUCH more to Google, as I discuss in this podcast.



As always, the orange title at the top of this posting is a direct link to the mp3 file with the podcast. Remember that you can subscribe to these podcasts using the link on the orange POD button at the lower right.

The transcript of this podcast is at:

http://www.online.uillinois.edu/oakley/podcasts/Google_Transcript.html

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Websites mentioned in podcast:

David Vise's article in the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111100674.html

Google:
http://www.google.com/

Kevin Kelleher's article in Wired News:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.12/google_pr.html

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The music in today's podcast is "Mucho Grecia", by Phil Little.
http://www.peoplesound.com/artist/phillittle/

Best regards,

Burks

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Technorati Tags: Google, podcast, search engine