I listen to podcast novels a lot. Some of my favorite authors are podcasters.  Podiobooks is my go-to website for finding free podcast novels.  I have discovered books and authors there that I would not have found anywhere else.

 

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Google search, Gmail, Google Reader, Analytics – and many more applications. How many of them do you use? How often?  I use them everyday. They may not be perfect, but I get a lot more out of them than I pay for them.

 

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When I first started using Twitter, I thought it was going to be a fun little internet toy to play with occasionally.  It has proved to me much more. Just in the first two weeks of 2010 news about friends and events has come through on Twitter before I saw it anywhere else. Twitter also creates a sense of community that sometimes is absent on the web.

 

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Basic Brewing Radio, hosted by James Spencer, has been both entertaining and educational as I’ve learned the craft of homebrewing.  The show consists of interviews, experiments and the results of James’ own brewing and brewing related efforts. James is a wonderful host and makes it feel like he’s talking with you.

 

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This thank you is not for the games and applications on Facebook, but because Facebook has given me the ability to reconnect with people I lost contact with.  Since I created my Facebook account, I have reconnected with over a dozen friends and I deeply appreciate having them in my life again.

 

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Thank you #8 goes to W3Schools.  They are my go-to website when I need a quick reference, refresher, or tutorial for most web-related coding.  They have tutorials and examples that you can test.  If you’re looking for information about HTML, Javascript, CSS, XML, PHP or several other subjects, you can find it on their site.

 

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My 7th thank you goes to Farpoint Media.  Without Mike Mennenga and the rest of the Farpoint crew, I would never have found most of the podcasts I continue to listen to.  The Farpoint Media family now includes about 100 podcasts on a variety of different subjects. If you want to find podcasts to listen to, I highly recommend starting at Farpoint.

Some examples – pulled from my current and past podcast subscriptions:

• Dragon Page Cover to cover – interviews with authors and discussion of fantasy and sci-fi books
• Slice of Sci-fi – what’s going on in the Sci-fi world
• I Should Be Writing – Mur Lafferty’s podcast about writing fiction
• Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy – Tee Morris’ original podcast about writing, publishing, and marketing your work (ended in 2009)
• Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing – about the sci-fi and fantasy publishing world
• Variant Frequencies – short stories of the speculative fiction genre
• DragonHearth – Tracy and Laura Hickman’s podcast
• Freshly Green – environmentally friendly advice and suggestions
• Marc Gunn’s Pub Songs Podcast – pub songs from Marc Gunn
• The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast – the title says it all
• Speaking of Beer – information and education on beer

 

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I use the Firefox browser from Mozilla and I love it. I recommend it to anyone I know who is still using Internet Explorer.  Why do I love it?  It plays well with web standards and the extensions available for it make web-design and posting much easier.

So, to Mozilla and to the many developers that work on Firefox and its extensions – Thank you.

 

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Today’s thank you goes to Mur Lafferty.

Mur inspires me because of how much she has done – from writing for role-playing games and a book on podcasting to podcasting her essays and novels. She is always challenging herself and sharing her efforts and lessons with us.

You can find links to all her work below the podcast player or at the Murverse.

 

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I Should be Writing (advice and information from Mur about writing)

Much of Mur’s audio fiction can be found at Podiobooks as well as at the following sites:

The Heaven Series

The Takeover (Zombies in corporate America)

Escape Pod (annual Christmas stories)

Playing for Keeps (Super – and not so super – heroes)

Mur’s Published Work

Thank you #4 goes out to Tee Morris for podcasting advice, hours and hours entertainment, making me feel like a friend instead of just a fan, and being a fan of my cookies and homebrewed beer. Please listen to the podcast for a better idea of why I owe him my thanks.

I found Tee through The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy podcast. Though that podcast ended last year, he is very easy to find online. His podcast novels can be found at Podiobooks.com and you can find him on Twitter as TeeMonster (his personal feed) and ITStudios (his business feed). You can find more information about Tee at TeeMorris.com and about his work at ITStudios.com.

Below the podcast player, you’ll find links to Tee’s books on Amazon. They are most definitely worth the read!

 

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Tee’s Non-fiction

Tee’s Fantasy Novels

Tee’s Billibub Baddings Mysteries