Before there was Wikileaks, before there was Wikipedia… Before there was Facebook and Twitter and blogs… there was a computer programmer named Ward Cunningham. He’s the guy who, back in 1995, invented the wiki. He also did something even more radical. He didn’t patent it. He passed up billions of dollars in potential revenue, because he believed the internet needed to be more democratic. And why did he invent the wiki in the first place?

Matt Mercier was failing high school physics, until he started dating a girl whose father was a physics teacher.

Right now, Dave’s working on a “magnificent symphony of software” – it’s the communication system he wants to use. It involves a minimal blogging tool with only RSS output (plus a dongle that will push the RSS to twitter, etc), a “River of News” aggregator, and an overarching tool for creating content that can be picked apart and included on other platforms.

By request, a tribute to Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry. Get your prog-rock hat on!

There's no shortage of podcast managers for Android, but they run the gamut from simplistic to feature-rich. We tested a few, but found that DoggCatcher is the best option to find, download, and organize your podcasts on your Android phone. More »

"Use this tool to build a custom podcast of various topics, musicians, personalities and NPR programs."

"Personal Effects: Sword of Blood is a free podcast-exclusive novella written by J.C. Hutchins, author of the 7th Son trilogy. It is a prequel to Hutchins’ print novel debut, Personal Effects: Dark Art."

"Listen in as Craig and Jerry discuss what's new in the Michigan Beer Scene, chat with notable figures in Michigan Beer brewing and evaluate different Michigan Beers"

"Also in this episode, an interview with CAG MotzCTG who is one of the developers of this week's Xbox Live Arcade Game, Shred Nebula."

"First, we asked you to tell us what song gets stuck in your head. Then, we asked you how you got it out. Finally, we made a podcast."

"Hear the story of the evolution of PHP from being a purely procedural language to its current state of a full-fledged object oriented language, from its creator Rasmus Lerdorf."

"Home of ZombInc, the answer to your staffing needs."

"The Takeover is an audio drama that covers the merger between a web design company and Zombinc, a premier staffing service. Only, zombies run Zombinc, which causes for some workplace stress."

"the amplificathon is a points-based podfic-creating challenge. podfics, in case you haven't heard, are audio recordings of fanfic."

"Gruen was on the sixty-first master, and while his wisdom had grown steadily, he had worn very little. He was incredibly well-preserved–the palms of his three-fingered hands still sported the deep, swirling ridges that had worn to nothing in most peopl

"This pipe extracts mp3 links from page, and makes Podcast."

"Real Synthetic Audio is the most listened to Industrial net-radio show."

"This is the first of many reviews of my latest boredom-suppressing form of media: podcasts."

"Our free podcast currently consists of 11 episodes, with more in the works."

"instead of a description of what he calls Telephone 3.0, he delivers an entertaining and typically forthright argument in favor of anger and its power to drive innovation."

"NPR has an OPML of all their podcasts."

"Summer, David and Tim gather together to discuss Vernor Vinge’s Hugo Award-winning “A Fire Upon the Deep”, but first give an update on Joe Murphy."

"Just got off the phone with a radio-research survey company. They asked me what my favorite radio station was. I told them “I listen to podcasts exclusively”."

"Leda Cosmides, renowned pioneer of the controversial field evolutionary psychology, asks, 'Are We Already Transhuman?' Don't miss this Templeton Research Lecture recorded for All in the Mind at Arizona State University."

Binary code for ASCII 'A'. Hidden message extra embedded in an episode of J.C. Hutchins' 7th Son sci-fi podcast.

Fair enough: "Each podcast/downloadable episode is free for exactly one week, beginning the Monday after broadcast."

"Thanks to the fine folks at the BBC in Edinburgh, their international relations division in London and KQED's Howard Gelman, we had more than an hour of time to discuss genre, genres and the ties that bind them together for Stross."

Er... RocketBoom without Amanda Congdon?! Say again?

In this session from the first Podcast Academy, Daniel Steinberg of O'Reilly Media's Distributing the Future podcast demonstrates some techniques for getting better sounding audio through post-production editing.

Amazon's Adam Selipsky discusses Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). The new web service provides pay-as-you-go data storage for web developers. More information is available today at aws.amazon.com/s3. (MP3, 5:03 mins.)

geek news central for 2006-03-14

'It's all about the draft OPML 2.0 spec and a few other things thrown in such as structured blogging, OPML tools, namespaces and microformats."

"iTunes already has OPML export."

"Jon Udell is not happy about having to transcribe podcast URLs that iTunes displays, but does not allow to copy. While the general point about lock-in is good, here is a quick techie workaround in a meanwhile."

Massively slick production values on this podcast trailer for Scott Sigler's next upcoming run...

"Oh my goodness, people, look at this amazing piece of work." Hah, this kid did a clamation animation of a scene from Ancestor. Totally Airwolf.

"You are willing to follow a recipe? So many chefs of your caliber think themselves above the direction of others." Awesome story of cooking as alchemy.

It's a podcast from Penn Jillette

Wherein we learn of the *true* PodFather, Kevin Marks. "Wow, I stand corrected. Thanks to this posting I was able to find this video of Kevin Marks demoing an applescript downloading mp3 enclosures straight to his ipod."

"Listen to the silent podcast with iTunes"

"Here we play public domain Sci/Fi radio plays. Lost treasures from the '50s and 40s, written by Sci/Fi legends."

"Check out the Remixing RSS podcast (12.9 MB MP3 file, 50 minutes and 43 seconds) of my RSS Remixing Presentation."

"It's not my job, it's not Apple's job, it's not Britney Spears', Nomar Garciaparra's, Howard Stern's or anyone else's job to raise your kids. It's yours. Don't like it? Tough."

This special tag causes the links to show up as enclosures in the RSS feed. Go-go gadget podcast!

"Cory Doctrow explains how the Internet, like all complex systems, includes parasitic elements that make use of resources in ways never intended by their providers."

"You've asked for it -- so we're going to give it a try. Introducing a podcast of Science Friday..."

Great podcast: "In this presentation from O'Reilly's Emerging Technology 2005, George Dyson, technology historian, presents a talk on Von Neumann's life as he was developing the foundations of computing at Princeton University during the 1930's, 40's and