My website hosting company has informed me that they will physically be moving the server that historyonair.com resides on. This will happen between 9 PM, March 23rd and 5 AM March 24th (MDT). The website will be down for this entire period. I apologize for any inconvenience.
This was an interesting month. I started posting every day this month. I think the articles have some really good content. I learned a lot writing the articles and it was fun for me. I hope you learned something and had some fun too. Oh, before I forget, now that we know who the big winners were from the Academy Awards yesterday, check out who won at the very first Oscar’s in 1929.
The two most popular post this month were not from this month. They were:
Other popular post from this month included:
What is wrong with the world today? No one is interested in history anymore? Just look at this horrible downward trend. I’m afraid to compare this trend to Britney Spears or Justin Bieber, and yes I did have to look up how to spell his last name. No idea what he is even famous for. Just know he is famous. What can we as history enthusiasts do to turn this tend upside down?
We’re social! But don’t worry we won’t overshare. Check us out on Facebook and Twitter! I will post to Facebook and Twitter as often as possible and try to make these services something you all will enjoy. Both of these are just one more way to contact me and interact with the rest of your history podcast fans.
Don’t forget to vote for the next history podcast episode topic:
Choose the next podcast episode
Total Voters: 17
Loading ...I am one of the few who does not have an iPhone. I think everyone would know how to subscribe to a podcast using their iPhone. But, what if, like me, you have an android phone? Well, I wanted to investigate this since I have one and sometimes I want to discover new podcast or subscribe to one and I don’t have wifi for my iPod, but I do have my trusty Android phone. I found Google Listen. It is an app from Google Labs. The app allows you to search for podcast to listen to. Once you find one you can subscribe and instantly listen to a podcast. The podcast subscription will appear in you Google Reader under a folder called “Listen Subscriptions”.
It was hard for me to find the podcast I was looking for using my phone to search. It was much easier to find the rss feed of the podcast, and paste it into google reader, then I dragged it to the Listen Subscriptions folder and presto, it was in my phone instantly. That was easy, but it doesn’t solve the problem of finding and subscribing with just the phone. It’s too bad google doesn’t have an easier way to do this.
Check out this in-depth youtube review of Google Listen:
Do you use another app for Android that you like? Please share in the comments.
Soon you should see a new item for History Podcast in your iTunes list. Don’t get too excited its not a full History Podcast, but just a status update. Okay, you can get excited, I am! I want you to help me pick the next episode below.
Thats right, I want to start on the next episode of history podcast. I’m going to put out a small status update podcast to let everyone know that I have not disappeared completely. I do want to continue podcasting, but I need your help. Can you help me go through all the request I have received? I still have request that I got via email in 2005! I want to get to them all, but I don’t know where to begin, so maybe you can help? I’m putting a poll up on this post and it will remain up until sometime in March. Hopefully by March I will have some time to begin podcasting again. At least this one episode that you, the listeners and readers of this blog, will choose. So without further delay, here is the poll:
Choose the next podcast episode
Total Voters: 17
Loading ...All of these choices are from a single email of requests that I received from Eric K. Don’t forget to check out our new Facebook Fan page and our Twitter! Thank you for listening and reading!
If you are reading this in your favorite RSS reader, head on over to historyonair.com real quick and check out the new look. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think of the new design. I want to update the podcast and blog and these are the first steps. The website needed a new look. Hope you all like it.
Congratulations to Lisa! She is the lucky winner of the America: The Story of Us blu-ray. Lisa I will be contacting you shortly. Thank you everyone for entering and the kind words.
I was lucky enough to have a copy of this very cool Blu-ray set sent to me recently. Total disclosure is that they sent me two copies. One to review and one to giveaway to some lucky history podcast listener. Since there have been very few episodes lately, I thought it would be a nice way to say thank you to the listeners that are still visiting this website. The podcast has not been abandoned. I’m just having trouble finding the time to put anything together. Anyone with a two year old will understand. I write this post in my living room/Samantha’s fort.
Back to the review. This Blu-ray copy of America: The Story of Us is sold for $50 on the history channel website. And I think it is worth it. It’s not just a single disc. It is three disc, twelve part series. It has various celebrities sharing their thoughts about the different times in America’s history throughout the entire series. These celebrities include: Tom Brokaw, Buzz Aldrin, Colin Powell and more. The introduction to the series is by President Barack Obama.
The story starts with the first ship loads of “rebels” from Europe landing in the new land. The Jamestown settlement is covered well in the first disc. Then they move on to the revolution, west-ward expansion and slavery. Disc two continues the story with the Civil War through the boom. Disc three warps up with Word War II and the millennium. Disc one and two have bonus features as well.
I enjoyed the entertaining way that the history of America is presented. I thought the computer graphics they used throughout really helped demonstrate various points. Although, I was a bit let down at how frequently some footage was reused throughout the series. Maybe that is because I watched all of the episodes in a short time, one right after the other. My favorite part of the series was the last two discs. I’ve read a lot about the revolution and didn’t really get much more out of the first disc, but the last two were very interesting. Even though, I didn’t really learn anything new from the first disc, I did find it entertaining. I’m including a short portion of the Jamestown portion in this post below. There are more videos on History Channel’s YouTube channel.
Even if you don’t win a copy of this series I would recommend purchasing it. If you do please buy via this link to Amazon. It doesn’t cost you anything more and a portion of the purchase price will go to supporting history podcast.
To enter the giveaway just leave a comment on this post. Be sure to include your email address. Also, just a reminder this is a Blu-Ray copy and will not play on a standard DVD player. It has to be a blu-ray compatible player for it to work. Your comment may not appear immediately, don’t worry though I got it. I just have to approve it. I will accept entries from the moment this post is published until Wednesday (10/20/2010) night 11:59:59pm pacific time. Good luck.
Check it out! Mr. Beardyman has done a write-up about the podcast. Not bad. I’m very happy to see that there are people still listening to the podcast. I wish I had more time to create new episodes, but as it is I barely have enough time to write this post.
History on air is hosted by Jason Watts and he is a amateur historian. He does a good job in researching all of his topics and also provides all the relevant sources/links to all of his podcasts. The sound quality of the podcasts are somewhat poor in the first few episodes though over time it improves thanks to a investment on a decent microphone…
