Georgia Podcast Network

So you bought a shiny new iPhone 3G or upgraded your iPhone to the 2.0 firmware (raises hand) and you're wondering which applications you should install first. For podcasters, a voice recorder is a logical choice.

Of course, like every other category of software in the iTunes Application Store, the number of options is simultaneously overwhelming and underwhelming (I don't need four separate flashlight apps that make my screen turn white, thanks much).

I've picked four choices of voice recorders that might be useful to a podcaster for conducting interviews, installed them, made some recordings with them, and taken down some impressions. Read more »

Last week, Augusta's Metro Spirit reported that the Navy contingent at Fort Gordon has purchased at least 700 iPods this year. After apparently being given the standard military run-around, reporter Corey Pein spoke with a public affairs officer who informed him that the iPods were purchased for foreign language training. One iPod - this is the 30GB model we're talking about - can hold "an entire study course of Arabic, Farsi or Mandarin" (or, one imagines, basically any other language). Oh, and they're video iPods... so porn, too.

Georgia College & State University might be the most Podcast-friendly university in the country, judging by the percentage of the faculty that puts out podcasts. From the Macon Telegraph:

At least 100 of the rural Georgia school's employees use the digital music and video players as an education or research tool - impressive for a college with only about 300 faculty. Rather than simply making class lectures available for download to iPods - a practice now routine at many colleges and even a few high schools - the school's educators are pushing to find more strategic uses of the device.

History professor Deborah Vess asks students to download 39 films to their devices so she doesn't have to spend class time screening the movies. Psychology professor Noland White has found a new-age answer to office hours: a podcast of the week's most asked questions.