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≡ Category: Apple | ≅ 1 Comment
Here’s a logical follow up to our last post — 10 Free University Courses on iTunes.
It turns out that yesterday Apple nicely integrated iTunes U into iTunes. Now, you’ll probably ask what is iTunes U, and why should I care about this integration? So here is the simple answer:
iTunes U is essentially a non-commercial version [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Online Courses | ≅ 1 Comment
We haven’t talked about the universe of university podcasts in some time. So let’s get back to it.Below, we have highlighted ten full-fledged courses from top flight universities. All of these courses can be downloaded to your iPod for free. That’s a price that you can’t beat.
For podcasts from more than 30 universities, visit our [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Politics, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ 3 Comments
America’s 42nd president spoke this weekend at Harvard’s Class Day, a traditional event held for graduating seniors. While Class Day often features pop icons and comedians — take this speech by Ali G from a few yeas ago — Clinton’s speech was a bit more serious and idealistic, and it reminds us that there may [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ Leave a Comment
If you’re not a New Yorker, the 92nd Street Y probably means little to you. But, if you’re a Manhattan dweller, you know that it is a cultural pillar of the city, a place where you can always find good talks being given by leading news makers, artists, authors and thinkers.
Having recently left NYC for [...]
≡ Category: Foreign Language | ≅ Leave a Comment
Whenever traffic flows to to our Foreign Language Lesson Podcasts, one good outcome is that we almost always learn of new podcasts to add to the list. (Just as an fyi, we now have 64 individual podcasts that offer instruction on 22 different languages.)
Last week didn’t disappoint. We learned of a few good new [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ Leave a Comment
Another week, another wrap up:
100 Culture Blogs
Fonts of Fame
What Pirates Can Teach Us about Democracy
New Books on Mp3 (For Free)
YouTube’s Impact on the 2008 Election: The Hype and the Fact
Art Blogs - A New Addition to the Culture Blogs Family
Who Killed JFK? Two New Studies
New Online Writing Courses from Stanford
U2 Plays @ The Cannes Film [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ Leave a Comment
What font do you write in? Do you have strong feelings about it? It turns out many writers do. Slate has a fascinating slide-show essay marking Helvetica’s fiftieth anniversary, celebrating the font “some have called the official typeface of the 20th century.” In an accompanying article the magazine surveyed a few famous writers and none [...]
≡ Category: Books, Film | ≅ 1 Comment
I’ve always felt that pirates understood the good things in life. Fresh air. Rum. Interesting hats. It turns out we had more in common politically than I would have given them credit for. According to Colin Woodard, author of The Republic of Pirates, the “Golden Age” of Caribbean piracy wasn’t too shabby. Seamen and captains [...]
≡ Category: Audio Books, Books, Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
While our collection of foreign language lessons podcasts has been getting a fair amount of love and attention lately, we’ve been sprucing up our directory of audio book podcasts.
To this list of English-language classics, we’ve added three new classics by Jane Austen — Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Northanger Abbey — all of which are byproducts [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Google, Media, Politics, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ 2 Comments
YouTube is a little more than two years old. It’s a mere toddler. But, it’s now owned by an overgrown, fully-bearded nine year old. Yes, that would be Google, and that means that YouTube is ready to storm its way into the media mainstream, pampers and all.
You can be sure that GooTube has already [...]
≡ Category: Art, Blogs | ≅ Leave a Comment
We now serve you 25 art/visual art blogs, all of which have also been folded into a larger list of 100+ culture blogs. We’re now calling it The Big List of Culture Blogs (pretty creative, eh), and we’ll add to it over time.
As always, please email us and let us know if we’re missing [...]
≡ Category: Books, History, Politics | ≅ 2 Comments
Whether you think John F. Kennedy was a great president or just a guy
who enjoyed sultry birthday
serenades (see clip below), you have to admit
his hold on America’s cultural imagination is still powerful four
decades after his assassination. Two major new works of history tackle
the question and, predictably, come down on opposite sides of it. David
Talbot’s Brothers: [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ Leave a Comment
Just a quick heads up: Starting today, you can sign up for online writing courses from Stanford. Offered by Stanford Continuing
Studies and the Stanford Creative Writing Program (which is one of the
most distinguished writing programs in the country), these online courses give
beginning and advanced writers, no matter where they live, the chance
to refine their craft [...]
≡ Category: Film, Music, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 1 Comment
The 60th Cannes Film Festival is in full swing. It’s all film for ten plus days. But last night, music – or really U2 – took center stage. Before the midnight screening of their new rockumentary, U23D, the Irish band played a two song set (Vertigo and Where the Streets Have No Name) [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ Leave a Comment
Here’s a quick recap of features from the past two weeks:
Serving Up 25 Music Blogs
25 Blogs for Movie Buffs
20+ Great Book & Literature Blogs
John Stewart: When Comedians Start Asking the Tough
The Great God Debate
Spiderman 3: Web Roundup
The Skinny on Second Life
The Portable University
The Book World Goes Sensibly Digital
Smart Links
Climate Crisis, the Happiness Conundrum [...]
≡ Category: Audio Books, Books | ≅ 1 Comment
There are some early signs that publishers and booksellers may be seeing the light.
Until recently, the book world applied an irrational logic to downloadable audiobooks and podcasts. As we noted back in February, the paper version of the bestselling business book, The Long Tail, ran consumers $16.47 on Amazon. And yet the cheaper-to-produce audio version [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ Leave a Comment
Here are some links that our kind readers sent our way this week. Enjoy:
Be Jackson Pollock: A fun little site. Start with a blank canvas, swirl your mouse around, click to change colors, and see if can paint like Pollock.
Brilliant Ideas in Everyday Language:
FORA.tv puts out a great collection of videos featuring prominent thinkers [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ 1 Comment
Our foreign language lesson podcasts got a little love yesterday from the great Lifehacker site. Many thanks to them. For any visitors who aren’t familiar with our other podcast collections, here’s a list that you’ll want to peruse.
Arts & Culture - Audio Books - Foreign Language Lessons - News & Information - Science - Technology [...]
≡ Category: Media, Technology, Web/Tech | ≅ 2 Comments
Ever wondered what Second Life is and if you should care about it? Imagine a 3-D immersive game where you control an avatar and travel through constructed environments–and now take away the game part. What’s left is a fairly wide-open creative space where users can create and sell in-game stuff–houses, objects, clothing, etc–or engage [...]
≡ Category: Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 10 Comments
Once upon a time we told you about TED Talks, the annual conference that brings together the world’s "thought-leaders, movers and shakers." These talks have been available on iTunes in both audio (iTunes - Feed) and video (iTunes - Feed). And now you can apparently find some on YouTube. Below we highlight a few.
First up, [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 1 Comment
Next up a series of music blogs, all of which figure into our growing collection of Culture Blogs. As always, these lists are a work in progress, and if you feel that we’ve missed something great, please feel free to email us and let us know.
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: A blog by the [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ Leave a Comment
America’s misadventure in Iraq has had multiple costs for the US, with just one being the decline of American moral leadership on the international stage, and particularly within the Middle East. Intellectually, we know that America’s prestige is momentarily shot. But to get a feel for what this means in practice, it’s worth listening [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 3 Comments
Smart music at no cost. Hard to beat.
An Intimate Tour Through the Music of Yo-Yo Ma iTunes Feed Web Site
Each episode of this podcast delves into the history of his career, and what led him to record each of the tracks of his current release Appassionato.
Bach Podcast from Magnatune.com iTunes [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ Leave a Comment
Over the past six months, we have created a series of resources that let you access university resources for free and on-the-fly. Below, we have centralized these materials in one place to give you quick access:
University Video Collection
A large trove of video content from well-known universities. All video can be watched on your computer.
University Podcasts [...]
≡ Category: Books, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ Leave a Comment
Posts are flying around the literary blogosphere lamenting the Death of Literary Criticism. Now, by my count this particular demise has been predicted at least three times in the past few decades, so why worry now? The short answer is that more books are published annually than ever, and now there are fewer book [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 3 Comments
Below, you’ll find a list of 25 fine cinema/film blogs, all for the cinema buff.
This list figures into a larger collection of Culture Blogs that we’re putting together over time. It’s a work in progress, so watch it grow. If you feel that we’re missing some extraordinary blogs, please feel free to email us and [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ Leave a Comment
We’re now six years past 9/11, and four years past the mission being complete in Iraq (wink, wink). But the parade of books by ex-government decision-makers continues. First we had Richard Clarke’s Against All Enemies and The Price of Loyalty written almost indirectly by former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill. Now we get a new one, [...]
≡ Category: Religion | ≅ Leave a Comment
On Monday night faith and atheism got a verbal workout. Famously vitriolic columnist Christopher Hitchens (a former liberal best-known in recent years for his staunch support of the war in Iraq) faced off against Reverend Al Sharpton in a discussion moderated by Slate editor Jacob Weisberg. Hitchens is a vehement non-believer and the new author [...]
≡ Category: Books | ≅ Leave a Comment
Below, you’ll find a list of 20 fine literary blogs. Like our podcast collections, this list will grow over time. In fact, it will become part of a larger list of great culture blogs. Over the coming weeks, we’ll roll out new installments and then mash them together into one larger list. Stay tuned for [...]
≡ Category: Law | ≅ Leave a Comment
The Supreme Court has long taken heat for being in the technological arrière-garde, a criticism that has seemed fair given its unwillingness to even allow cameras into its oral arguments.
Slowly, however, that perception may be about to change. According to the ABA Journal eReport, the Court has stuck a small toe into the technology waters [...]
