Spring 2006 will see the rollout of another campus-wide podcasting project: Chargercasts, at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Timothy McDaniel, podcasting director at UAH, calls podcasting “easy, flexible, and infinite.” (What more could one want out of an educational resource?) It’s also a way to get a campus radio station when the FCC says they can’t grant you a license. The student-run, student-funded angle is especially intriguing.

More details on the Chargercast project in the Huntsville Times article. I confess I am tickled to see Adam Curry’s “Daily Source Code” called the “Daily Secret Code.” Serves me right for leaving my decoder ring at home on the nightstand.

Via Podcasting News.

One of my favorite Donne poems, and unfortunately one of his toughest. This lyric is thus a rather severe test case for my assertion that reading aloud can help elucidate poetry. Don’t judge my thesis just by my reading, though. Do me one Donne better!

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Matt May at Corante reports that “podcasting paraphernalia” (a word spell-checkers were born to flag) are starting to aggregate in interesting ways. I mean dangerous ways, of course, in my own case, seeing as how Guitar Center/Musician’s Friend, already a source of major podcasting goodness for me, now has kits for sale to ease the way into wholesale addiction, I mean devotion.

Market economies: sometimes they pull through. I hope my own spending has in some small way contributed to this encouraging development (tongue firmly planted in cheek, or maybe not).

This may be a perfect poem.

If it’s not perfect, it’s close.

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