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Here’s a quick recap of January’s reader favorites in case you missed them.
Digital MBA: America’s Best Business Schools on Your iPod
45 Free Cutting-Edge Books … Courtesy of Creative Commons
10 Excellent University Podcasts
50+ Free Courses from UC Berkeley on iTunes
Free Beethoven and Mozart Recordings via Podcast
The Hottest Course on iTunes (and [...]
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See our complete collection of foreign language lesson podcasts.
Here is a quick “lifehack” for you. You can now learn foreign languages and stay current on politics all at once. How so? By taking advantage of a smart podcast concept being used by French and German broadcasters. Radio France Internationale (RFI) issues a daily [...]
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It was only a question of when, not if. Harvard has finally carved out a space, albeit a rather small one,
on iTunes. (See yesterday’s press release.) Established by the Harvard Extension School, the iTunes site currently features one free, full-fledged course called Understanding Computers and the Internet, which had previously been issued in other [...]
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Yesterday, we alerted you to the free audio and text versions of Lawrence’s Lessig’s book, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Today, we’re pointing you to a larger collection of high-quality books (45 in total) that you can download legally thanks to Lessig’s Creative [...]
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Norman Mailer, now 84 years old, has just published his first novel in a decade. And what becomes immediately clear is that age has done little to stop Mailer from taking his trademark literary risks. Just as he felt free to inhabit the mind of Jesus in The Gospel According to the Son (1997), he [...]
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Is it something of an oddity to see the words of famous philosophers and historians getting digitized
and downloaded to iPods everywhere? Sure it is, and that’s why we generally like talking about humanities podcasts. But is it strange to think of America’s leading business schools carving out a space on iTunes and bringing their ideas [...]
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It’s old news that the Sundance Film Festival has gone corporate. Some still protest that fact.
Others accept it, seeing it as an unavoidable reality in an era when even our sports stadiums bear corporate names. And yet still others choose to focus on the good that comes along with the bad. One upside to the [...]
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For those who dug our recent piece on UC Berkeley’s 59 courses available on iTunes, here’s another little item for you. Susan Stuart, a lecturer at the University of Glasgow, recently taught a course on the epistemology (or theory of knowledge) of the great German philosopher, Immanuel Kant. And figuring that it might help her [...]
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We’re not here to write about the State of the Union speech per se (enough other bloggers have done that), but rather to mention a cool new technology that’s been applied to the Bush speech. A company called Pluggd, using "HearHere technology," now gives you the ability to search audio and video files just [...]
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Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford, has made a big name for himself by developing a sustained critique of how Congress, at the behest of corporate America, has progressively stifled cultural and scientific innovation by extending the duration and scope of copyright laws. Out of this critique, Lessig founded Creative Commons, a non-profit which [...]
Museums have always been in a tricky position. Instead of bringing art to the public, they have made the public come to them. And, even while they did this for perfectly logical reasons (the works of art are priceless and delicate after all), museums have nonetheless limited their ability to reach more people and promote [...]
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For more enriching audio, see our University Podcast Collection.
1.) Abraham Lincoln’s Invention of Presidential Powers - James MacPherson iTunes Audio Stream
Princeton’s James MacPherson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author on the American Civil War, discusses how Lincoln invented presidential war-time powers. It’s a topic of particular interest given the recent debate over the
validity of warrantless [...]
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Not too long ago, we mentioned the Edge.org, the web site run by John Brockman, the literary agent of some very important scientific minds. Now it’s worth mentioning it again. With the start of the new year, the web site asked 160 influential thinkers "what are you optimistic about?" And, as you’d expect from some [...]
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Open Source, a radio program hosted by Christopher Lydon, recently pulled off something rather unusual. The broadcast (iTunes - mp3) made it abundantly clear why an Ancient Greek text, Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, remains fascinating and highly relevant to modern day readers. Written 2400+ years ago, Thucydides has something important to offer history and [...]
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The only downside to using a feed reader (Bloglines, Google Reader, MyYahoo, etc.) to access Open Culture is that you won’t be able to see our podcast directories which reside in our left nav bar. To assist you, we have pasted links below that will give you direct access to the podcast collections. Bookmark & [...]
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Oodles of print have been written about Sacha Baron Cohen’s film, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” And there’s perhaps not a great deal more to say about it, other than it’s remarkable how well the film has been received by America’s cultural establishment. Edgy, shock comedy that uses [...]
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For every university that has started podcasting lectures or courses, dozens have proved slow to take this step. If you’re an educator who thinks that your university should go digital at long last, you’ll want to take a look at this article appearing in The Chronicle of Higher Education. How to Podcast Campus Lectures overviews [...]
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≡ Category: Books | ≅ 1 Comment
It was probably only a matter of time before this happened. According to The New York Times, Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, has agreed to publish a work by whichever new writer takes first prize in a contest sponsored by the social-networking site, Gather.com. A la American Idol, everyday people and panel of [...]
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It was only a question of when, not if. Harvard has finally carved out a space, albeit a rather small one,
on iTunes. Established by the Harvard Extension School, the iTunes site currently features one free, full-fledged course called Understanding Computers and the Internet, which had previously been issued in other digital formats. (See our [...]
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Just a quick update on our last entry. Steve Job’s keynote speech from earlier in the week — the one that gave the public its first look at the iPhone — now stands as the most popular podcast on iTunes. But perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. You can download the podcast in video on iTunes, [...]
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Each year, Steve Jobs kicks off MacWorld with a big address, which
either confirms or quashes all the
rumors and speculation about the
new wave of Apple products. It’s usually a big deal, and this year
didn’t disappoint. Jobs delivered with flair the iPhone, which Apple hopes will revolutionize the cell phone market as the iPod did the [...]
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During a radio interview yesterday (iTunes - mp3), Jon Gordon, the host of Future Tense, asked me
whether universities will continue pouring content into their iTunes troves in 2007. The answer boiled down to this: Podcasting stands poised to proliferate in ‘07, much like the web did back in ‘95 and ‘96. Just a year [...]
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FORA TV
offers you something that you’ll most certainly want: an on-demand video portal that lets you access wherever, whenever you want the leading-edge ideas of prominent newsmakers — politicians, business leaders, authors, scientists, artists and more. All of the video comes from well-regarded organizations (C-SPAN, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Commonwealth Club of [...]
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Most university podcasts allow the outside world to listen in on fairly polished and formal campus lectures. But this podcast is different. As part of its new iTunes initiative, Yale University has recently released a recording of famed literary critic Harold Bloom (see bio) teaching a seminar on “The Art of Reading a Poem” (iTunes [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, UC Berkeley | ≅ 5 Comments
This is nothing short of impressive. Last April, UC Berkeley, one of the premiere universities in the country, announced its plan to put complete academic courses on iTunes. Fast forward nine months, and you can already find 59 full courses available as podcasts. Simply click here to access Berkeley’s iTunes site (or [...]
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They say that the advent of the blogosphere marked a critical turning point when the little guy, with some moxie and smarts, could start credibly competing against the major newspapers. (Goodbye CNN.com, hello Daily Kos.) Now, with iPods becoming ubiquitous, the corporate media establishment is suddenly finding its position being threatened on a new front. [...]
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As part of its 300th anniversary celebration, Yale University gathered together some of its foremost faculty and offered an extended series of lectures on the state of American democracy. Collectively entitled "Democratic Vistas," this wide-ranging series explores American democracy in historical and contemporary terms and looks at how it meshes with other fixtures of our [...]
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Just a very quick fyi: Open Culture got a nice little mention in yesterday’s Christian Science Monitor. It’s within the context of a very good article about MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative, which is definitely worth knowing about.
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See our follow up piece: More Free Classical Music Podcasts: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner and Some Yo-Yo Ma
Courtesy of Deutsche Welle, the German international broadcasting
service, you can fill your iPod at no
cost with some exceptional classical music. We’d particularly encourage you to focus on two podcasts. First, Beethovenfest (iTunes Feed Web Site), [...]
