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The Podcast Sessions #5: Stuff You Missed In History Class

  By Peter | September 19, 2011 - 9:34 am | Podcasts
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Podcast name: Stuff You Missed In History Class In Short: Didn’t pay attention in history class? HowStuffWorks.com has you covered. Host: Deblina Chakraborty & Sarah Dowdey Their Description: Whether they’re discussing the Freedom Riders or the adventures of bushrangers, you can count on Sarah and Deblina to keep you up to date on the Stuff You Missed In History Class in this podcast by HowStuffWorks.com. Culch.ie Says: There seems to be a format to the more successful podcasts that are out there, the most of which seem to hail from the USA. All seem to follow a sort of [for want of a better description] Westlife/ Jeffrey Archer format to another successful song/ novel in the sense that that this also has a sort of Freakonomics type of set up to it. But. Whilst I say that, content is king and the content to every one of the Stuff You … There’s more →

The Podcast Sessions #4: This American Life

  By Peter | September 12, 2011 - 9:36 am | Podcasts, Radio, The Culch
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Podcast name: This American Life In Short: weekly podcast of the award-winning radio show “This American Life.” First-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. Updated Mondays. Host: Ira Glass Their Description: One of our problems from the start has been that when we try to describe This American Life in a sentence or two, it just sounds awful. For instance: each week we choose a theme and put together different kinds of stories on that theme. That doesn’t sound like something we’d want to listen to on the radio, and it’s our show. So usually we just say what we’re not. We’re not a news show or a talk show or a call-in show. We’re not really formatted like other radio shows at all. Instead, we do these stories that are like movies for radio. There are people in dramatic situations. Things happen to them. … There’s more →

The Podcast Sessions #3: Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

  By Peter | September 5, 2011 - 12:06 pm | Podcasts, Radio
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Podcast name: BBC Comedy of the Week Description: see above Host: BBC There are 2 BBC Comedy of the Week Podcasts that I listen to. They say: Bringing you a satirical take on the week’s news with Chain Reaction, Radio 4′s tag-team interview show, to entertain you during the Now Show/News Quiz summer break. culch.ie say: At present the podcasts are in short running like so for the summer season: Rhys Thomas interviews Simon Day who i/v’s Peter Hook who i/v’s ‘punk poet laureate’ John Cooper Clarke who….. which may put some off as it’s not exactly Friday night at The Bankers Comedy Club if you get my drift. That said… I’ve been subscribed to Friday Night comedy of the week for as long as I can remember and for the long term this is one of my favourite podcasts ever. I follow them and love them like I follow … There’s more →

The Podcast Sessions #2: Sunday News by Topgold

  By Peter | August 29, 2011 - 9:00 am | Podcasts
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Podcast name: Sunday News Review [disclaimer: has no one official name] Description: A review of Ireland’s Sunday newspapers, less all of the bits I don’t really want to hear - i.e. celeb gossip/ glee club et al, taken from the perspective of an American living in Ireland. Host: Bernie ‘Topgold’ Goldbach Culch.ie Says: If you don’t buy a newspaper - but you have a brain and dislike Glee club then this one is for you. If you don’t know Bernie Goldbach, there are I should tell you in advance, one or two things about his weekly news podcast that will happen every week, [First] Bernie loves his nokia and [two] the ex-US Air Force pilot loves telling you all of the ways in which and where you can find him online. Make no mistake about it, you will hear both mentioned. That said….. from a podcasters perspective, there is maybe … There’s more →

Events: Live Webchat with Noel Gallagher happening now!

  By Sinead Keogh | August 22, 2011 - 6:54 pm | Celebs, Events, Music, The Internet
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Get over to his Facebook Page sharpish because Noel Gallagher is doing a live webchat to give fans a chance to ask him questions about his upcoming live dates, the release of High Flying Birds or anything else that takes their fancy. You can submit questions through Facebook or on Twitter using the hashtag #AskNoel and if you can’t tune in right this minute, it’s being recorded and will be up on his YouTube channel later on. That’s all then… shove off.

The Podcast Sessions #1: Freakonomics

  By Peter | August 22, 2011 - 11:57 am | Podcasts
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Description: a podcast, a biweekly segment on Marketplace, and a series of one-hour programs broadcasted on public radio stations across the country [that be the US I'll assume]. Hosts: Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner Their Description: It began when New York journalist and author Stephen J. Dubner went to Chicago to write about award-winning economist Steven D. Levitt for The New York Times Magazine. Dubner had been reluctant to take the assignment (he was in the middle of writing a book about the psychology of money). Levitt was reluctant to be shadowed by a journalist (but his mother loved the Times Magazine, so he gave in). The article came out, and led to an unexpected partnership. Levitt and Dubner wrote Freakonomics, a book about cheating teachers, bizarre baby names, self-dealing Realtors, and crack-selling mama’s boys. They figured it would sell about 80 copies. Instead, it took up long-term residency on … There’s more →

Linky Li: TheBurningHouse.com

  By Sinead Keogh | August 16, 2011 - 9:01 am | Fashion, Random Whimsy, The Culch, The Internet
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While we don’t want to become known as a slaggregator (Aggregator is too good a term for what is essentially putting it about) sometimes we see things on the internet that we want to pass on. We’ve decided to preface such posts with the title ‘Linky Li’ - a vague pop culture reference, to dull the blow of the fact that we haven’t actually created any content. Cheeky bastards, us. Linky Li of the moment is TheBurningHouse.com where interneters send pictures of the items they’d save in the event of a fire. It fills us with nostalgia for Desked and makes us wonder why these people think they have a hope in hell of rounding up a dozen items without succumbing to smoke inhalation and dying on the floor surrounded by their favourite shoes, a worn out teddy and a packet of Rolos bestowed on them by their first love … There’s more →

The Podcast Sessions #1

  By Peter | August 15, 2011 - 9:00 am | Podcasts, Radio, The Culch
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My problem is finding the podcasts I like. And to be fair, there are some great ones out there. Some from the man on the street, some from the big boys of the media world - some, like my own, maybe, fall in the middle ground and often somtimes don’t get that little umph or simply an applause/ notoriety/ pat on the back for the hard work that they deserve. Any Regular Podcast People Out There ? (mp3) This exercise may become time-consuming - and so to lessen that, here’s what I will ask for [see below], including your help. It will also mean that when you click the podcast category here on culch.ie there will be some sort of easy how do I find the link to subscribe to this podcast type set up. If you have one you like, or you do one, just pop me a comment/email/other … There’s more →

Video: OMG it’s Jedward!

  By Culch.ie | August 11, 2011 - 10:16 am | Celebs, Music, Radio, Random Whimsy, The Internet
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So, a weird thing happened to us yesterday. There we were, minding our own business (for a change), checking our email (for a change) and we come across one called ‘Message from Jedward’. Naturally we regarded it with a fairly hefty amount of suspicion since most emails we get purporting to be from 18-year-olds go straight into the spam folder but turns out there was nothing untoward about it…we really did get a message from Jedward. See? It might be one of those things you can actually describe as surreal, as opposed to most of the time when it’s common usage is mangled. Obviously we’re entirely aware that it’s a clever little ploy to promote their new album, but since the other hello videos they did were for the likes of Miriam O’Callaghan, Perez Hilton (who they described as the best website ever - sigh, they’re not even wrong) and Obama, … There’s more →

Pics: Dunnes and Penneys Try Pop Culture

  By Sinead Keogh | June 29, 2011 - 4:54 pm | Fashion, The Internet
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We’re not normally fashion bloggers at Culch.ie but sometimes it’s hard to resist. Spotted on my Facebook newsfeed today, the latest from Dunnes Stores: Which reminded me of a recent Penney’s attempt to be down with the kids: About as cringey as when your mother says ‘LOL’.

Game Review: Infamous 2

  By Tony McD | June 29, 2011 - 11:40 am | Games, The Culch, The Internet
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In his first post for Culch.ie, Tony has plenty of good things to say about Infamous 2 for PS3. Make him welcome! Ah sequels. As this generation of consoles have already hit their technical limitations and approach their autumn years, we are hit with ever more gimmicky add-ons (Kinect, Move, WiiU) and of course, sequels. In 2009 Infamous came along and - despite great reviews - seemed to go under a lot of people’s radar, mine included. So when it came time to review its sequel I jumped in and promptly found myself lost. Here is a serious caveat; if you haven’t played the original you should do so first before moving on to Infamous 2. Luckily PlayStation have included the first game as part of their Welcome Back offer on PSN, so you can download it and it is impossible to overstate how important this is – Infamous 2 … There’s more →

Become a 100m World Records Holder this weekend

  By Will | April 22, 2011 - 8:27 pm | Games, The Internet
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Microsoft and Rare want you to become a World Record holder at 6pm Saturday 23 April, all you have to do is run 100 meters. Actually its a little bit more than that, but not much more. Xbox Nations lets you try Xbox LIVE Gold for free, as well as inviting you to take part in the world’s biggest ever virtual sprint. The record we’re going for is the most people running a virtual 100m dash at one time. You need to have (or have access to) play Kinect Sports and complete a sprint mini-game while connected to Xbox LIVE at 6pm on Saturday. You must choose sprint from the mini-game menu – not the entire track and field event for your race to count. You also have to download a gamerpic, which registers you as eligible for the attempt. There is a different pic for each country, so register … There’s more →

The Sodshow comes to the airwaves

  By Anto | March 16, 2011 - 2:45 pm | Podcasts, Radio, The Culch
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First off, an admission. I’m not much of a gardener myself. I did have quite a big back garden in my parents place (where my da grew vegetables) but now I live in an apartment with one pot plant (nicknamed Planty). However, that doesn’t proclude me from learning about the greener side of life and I’ve started to do that courtesy of Peter Donegan’s Sodcast, which has now become the Sodshow on 103.2 Dublin City FM. Some of you may know Peter from his posts on culch but what you may not know is that he’s an award winning landscape gardener. For the past 29 weeks he’s been podcasting a garden themed podcast known in Internet circles as the Sodcast. It’s provided listeners with Peter’s unique take on gardening as he winds his way through a diverse range of topics. It’s been very successful so far, so much so that … There’s more →