Guess he’s not a Fox News fan :

1 Day before video from Podtech’s Micheal Johnson:

Public Radio Talent Quest:
Banners | Recorded Promos | Promo Scripts

Just so we’re not the only blog in the world without cell-phone salesmen phenom Paul Potts:

NPR Day to Day: Potts interview | TV Finals

WFMU’s blog has mp3s of Head and Leg’s In Your Dreams, a spoken-weird, oddio art, musicollage. I suggest you buy the CD, as I did, from Seeland, Negativland’s mail-order label, if only for the exquisite artwork inside by Pauline Lim:

“Your ___ Is Only Momentary” © Pauline Lim
Oil, alkyd, acrylic on canvas. 22″ x 28″ 2004

From Head and Leg In Your Dreams…

“Poke You in the Eye” (1:09):

“The Womb Room” (2:54):

“Dreamscape” (2:15):

The Sound Archive at the Imperial War Museum has a huge collection of sound-recorded war-related oral histories and broadcasts from WWI on. Some of the best-of are in the Forgotten Voices project; there’s a play in London based on the collection; and there’s several ::amazon(”0091897343″, “Forgotten Voices”):: book/CDs.

Here’s the tres-Brit voice of First Lord of the Admiralty 1/Oct/1939, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, getting ready for a fight (1:13):

Sent by Rich Halten.

Free online Journalism Training course from News University, taught by the NY Times multimedia editor: Telling Stories with Sound.

From USA Today “U.S. Net access not all that speedy:”

Median US broadband: 1.97 MB/s (Montana: 1.312)
Japan: 61 MB/s
France: 17 MB/s
Canada: 7 MB/s

Hey — at least we’re not in SoDak (0.825)!