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Rejoice, news nerds! NPR arrives on the iPhone

NPR has launched a new iPhone app with that's so good it might replace both your computer and your radio as your favorite way to listen to the news. The app allows you to listen to live streams from hundreds of NPR news stations, as well as reading and listening to archived stories. All told, you're getting over 1,000 stations, news programs and live streams on your iPhone for free.

To keep all this content organized, you can add stories to your queue and listen to them in order. If you're just interested in what's playing on your local station, you can easily locate it using the NPR app and your iPhone's GPS. The NPR app is more than news, though: it also lets you listen to popular programs like Car Talk and Fresh Air. If they're on air anywhere in the country, you'll see an "on air" badge, meaning you can listen live. For shows that aren't live at the moment, you'll still be able to listen to the most recent episode on demand.

[via Mashable]

Filed under: Audio, Internet

NPR launches Mix Your Own Podcast tool

NPR Mix your own podcastNPR has rolled out a new feature that lets you build your own podcast by entering a list of topics you're interested in. Once you've finished building your list, you can subscribe to your custom podcast by hitting the iTunes or Zune buttons. Or you can copy the URL for the RSS feed into your podcast aggregator of choice.

Up until now you could subscribe to podcasts from NPR.org by selecting a radio program or by selecting one topic at a time. The topic-based podcasts include NPR news stories matching that topic drawn from a number of shows.

The new feature makes it much easier to find NPR content you're interested in. But I still wish there was a way to download entire episodes of Morning Edition and All Things Considered. With the Bryant Park Project having been pulled off the air this year and with Day to Day and News and Notes disappearing next year, soon there won't be any full length NPR news magazines available for download.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

Filed under: Audio, Podcasting

NPR Intelligence Squared - Download Pod

NPR IQ2USThe NPR Intelligence Squared US (IQ2US) audio podcast is a series of recordings of public debates held in New York focusing on hot-button issues (most specific to the U.S.) like immigration, affirmative action, and global warming. The debates are held in the Oxford-style meaning there are one motion (topic), one moderator, three speakers for the motion, and three speakers against the motion.

Prior to the start of the debate, visitors cast their votes for or against the motion. During the debate, the results of the initial vote are shown, and the visitors vote again at the end of the debate to decide which side "won."

The debates move quickly, and it's nice to learn things in the car on the way to work instead of listening to drunk 30-somethings talk about "news."

The IQ2US series holds five debates in the spring, and five debates in the fall, and is available from the iTunes Store or the NPR website.

Filed under: Audio, Internet, Podcasting, Social Software, web 2.0

SplashCast builds official NPR Podcast Player for Facebook



We found intriguing media mashup and mixer startup SplashCast back in February, and today the have announced a major step forward via a partnership with NPR (National Public Radio). As an arguable victory in the name of online productivity, SplashCast has just unleashed the official NPR Podcast Player for Facebook, bringing educational and current event programming to the popular social networking site in a slick embedable Flash widget. This is a great addition to all the other somewhat less productive apps and widgets Facebook is gaining as of late, and a great venue for NPR's venerable programming.

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