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Alternate Audio Tour for the Met
Slate continues its entry into podcasting with an alternative tour of nine major (but perhaps overrated) works in the Metropolitan Muesem's Modern Gallery. Done by Slate's art critic Lee Siegel, the snappy 20-minute tour is a lot less reverent than the audio tours that museums sell.
Related Stories:
· Introducing Slate Audio Tours
· Metropolitan Museum: Modern Art [Official site]
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Take Me Out to Glasgow
IToors is a company getting ready to roll out MP3 audio tours of various major cities. The first one out is an easy-going walk through the music-haunted streets of Glasgow, where Franz Ferdinand, Belle and Sebastian, and lots of other indie-pop names got their start. Narrated by DJ Jim Gellatly, the 90-minute walk by and into bars, clubs, and (on one occasion) thrift shops is entertaining and fun, as long as you don't mind the periodic product placements of its sponsor, Tennant's Lager.
Related Stories:
· Glasgow -- Sounds of a Music Capital [MP3 tour]
· iToors Glasgow tour map [PDF]
· iToors Press
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Travel Podcasts: Notes from Spain
Over the next few days, we'll be highlighting a few of the most entertaining and useful travel podcasts we've come across. First up is the Madrid-Based Notes from Spain, written by Ben Curtis, a British photographer and writer in Spain in 1998. He does a good job of capturing small details of the country, as when he's wandering through one of Madrid's many markets or walking through Retiro Park on a hot day -- the sounds in the background are all part of the show.
Related Stories:
· Notes from Spain blog
· Notes from Spain podcasts
· How to Receive and Listen to Podcasts [Contentious blog]
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Mr. Calacanis & The Flying Podcast
Blogger Jason McCabe Calacanis is solidifying himself as our favorite traveler, though we fear fellow passengers on his SAS flight from Seattle to Copenhagen might not find him quite as endearing.
Calacanis paid $30 for T1 WiFi access (round trip) on the flight, then proceeded to IM, download Bit Torrent media, and update his blog. Cool. Perfectly harmless thus far right?
Then Mr. Calacanis took it up a notch, he made a couple Skype calls and produced a podcast/videocast where everyone within earshot was treated to quotable gems like this one:
You can see that I am actually on a real plane, this is not staged--oh they are doing the dinner service, interesting, I wonder what dinner is.
Just watch the videocast yourself, you won't be disappointed.
As you watch it, try to imagine sitting next to someone "podcasting" as you try to endure your your nine-and-a-half-hour flight.
Related Stories:
· Calacanis VidCast#1 [Calacanis.com]
· Mr. Calacanis Goes To Paris [Jaunted]
