Kinoma Notes

Lib­riVox is an online dig­i­tal library of free, pub­lic domain audio­books read by vol­un­teers. Their mis­sion is to make all books in the pub­lic domain avail­able as audio­books, and we’re proud to offer access to the Lib­riVox library in Kinoma Play.

Today we’re happy to announce a mas­sive refresh of the Lib­riVox audio­books avail­able in Kinoma Guide — 1,966 audio­books, with a total of 43,311 chap­ters! That’s almost dou­ble the num­ber of audio­books that was avail­able yesterday.

When you can, take a few min­utes scan through the “All Audio­books by Title” and “All Audio­books by Author” cat­e­gories in Books & Lit­er­a­ture > Lib­riVox. You’ll find a treasure-trove of the world’s best books and their authors, all avail­able on-demand with your phone.

As usual, this new con­tent is free to Kinoma customers.

Enjoy!

If there’s any­thing else that you’d like to see in Kinoma Guide, please take a few sec­onds to let us know! send links and short descrip­tions to content@kinoma.com and we’ll add them for every­one to enjoy.

Ear­wolf! What does it mean to you?

If you said, “The first name in com­edy pod­cast net­works”, pat your­self on the back and wait for a spe­cial sur­prise from the Easter Bunny. (For the record, the answers “That thing my doc­tor said I’ll get if I don’t get more vit­a­min A” and “That show about the heli­copter with Jan-Michael Vin­cent” are incorrect.)

Today, we’re happy to say Ear­wolf shows are now avail­able in Kinoma Play.

Really?

Yes. I would never lie to you, other than to avoid hurt­ing your feelings.

How do I look in this?

Amaaaz­ing.

So, what shows?

Well, there’s…

• Com­edy Death-Ray Radio — Scott Auk­er­man (“Mr. Show,” Pro­ducer of “Between Two Ferns”) and his famous funny friends talk and stuff.
• Eardrop – Some of our favorite come­di­ans call in and leave mes­sages on our answer­ing machine.
• Glit­ter in the Garbage — Drew Droege (The Groundlings, Upright Cit­i­zens Brigade, and Com­edy Cen­tral Stage) and friends play obscure celebri­ties who cel­e­brate, fight, feast upon, and pol­ish the filth.
• How Did This Get Made? — Have you ever watched a movie so ter­ri­ble, so unwatch­able, that it actu­ally is amaz­ing? Then this show is for you! Paul Scheer leads a round­table discussion.
• Mike Detec­tive — The con­tin­u­ing adven­tures of Mike Detec­tive, unli­censed and unin­sured pri­vate eye! A hard-boiled noir ser­ial, star­ring Rob Huebel (Human Giant, Chil­drens Hospital).
• Sklar­bro Coun­try — Randy and Jason Sklar give their weekly comedic takes on the worlds of sports and pop culture.
• Who Charted? — Howard Kre­mer and Kulap Vilay­sack take aim at the top 5 chart mak­ers in music, movies and television.
• The Wolf Den — Go behind the scenes of Ear­wolf. Jeff Ull­rich talks about start­ing and grow­ing a new media busi­ness and inter­views oth­ers who are influ­enc­ing the new busi­ness of comedy.

That’s a lot of awe­some. If I can find the guts to lis­ten, where do I find them?

You’ll find Ear­wolf  in Kinoma Guide > Enter­tain­ment & Com­edy. Or, just use Kinoma Guide’s Search fea­ture to find a spe­cific show.

Enjoy!

If you know have other favorite con­tent that we should include in Kinoma Guide, send links and short descrip­tions to content@kinoma.com and we’ll add them for every­one to enjoy.

We’re big fans of NPR (National Pub­lic Radio). They’re U.S.-based, but known world­wide for excel­lent, non-commercial news, talk, music and enter­tain­ment pro­gram­ming.

Kinoma Play cus­tomers been able to find the most pop­u­lar NPR shows in Kinoma Guide since the begin­ning, includ­ing such favorites as:

• The arts-and-issues show Fresh Air
• The secret sto­ries of This Amer­i­can Life
• The bril­liant sci­ence and audio candy of Radi­o­lab
• The infor­ma­tive and inter­est­ing Planet Money
• Peren­ni­als like Car Talk and A Prairie Home Companion

Cool, so what’s new?

Today, you can find the entire cat­a­log of shows and pod­casts from NPR, plus addi­tional con­tent from over 50 part­ners includ­ing Amer­i­can Pub­lic Media and PRI (Pub­lic Radio International).

That’s hun­dreds of pod­casts, and more than 300 hours of new con­tent every week. Con­ve­niently, you can browse by both source — includ­ing NPR affil­i­ate sta­tions and other pub­lic radio orga­ni­za­tions – and topic. Or, just use the handy Search fea­ture if you know part of the name of what you’re look­ing for.

There’s also a live NPR stream. When you want to hear some­thing inter­est­ing but don’t feel like hunt­ing around, just go to the NPR cat­e­gory and choose NPR [Live Pro­gram Stream].

Where do I find it?

You’ll find NPR in Kinoma Guide > Providers > NPR.

Enjoy!

If you know have other favorite con­tent that we should include in Kinoma Guide, send links and short descrip­tions to content@kinoma.com and we’ll add them for every­one to enjoy.

Revision3 is one of the best video net­works on the web — over 15 mil­lion peo­ple watch Revision3 shows each month!

Today we’re happy to announce that the full suite of Revision3 shows are now avail­able in Kinoma Play!

Revision3 shows gen­er­ally focus on tech­nol­ogy and geek cul­ture — stuff like gad­gets, gam­ing, hack­ing (in the best sense of the word), comics and movies/TV. If you’re read­ing this, we’re pretty sure you’ll find at least a cou­ple of new favorites here.

The shows

• A.V. Talk — The web’s smartest movie and tele­vi­sion review show, hosted by the edi­tors of Onion’s A.V. Club
• App­Judg­ment— Your daily source for mobile app reviews and previews
• The Ben Heck Show — Join this mas­ter hacker, engi­neer, and con­jurer of cool stuff as he tack­les new projects
• Byte­jacker — The best source for dis­cov­er­ing inde­pen­dent and down­load­able video games
• Dan 3.0 — Take part in the on-screen action by vot­ing for what Dan will do and where he will go next
• Death Bat­tle! — Two or more pop cul­ture in an all out, no-holds barred slugfest to the death
• Destruc­toid — The gam­ing show brought to you by gamers, for gamers (and also for any­one inter­ested in robots, uni­corns, and jet packs)
• Digg Dialogg — The Digg com­mu­nity asks ques­tions to notable lead­ers and luminaries
• Dig­gna­tion — A weekly tech/web cul­ture show based on the top digg.com news stories
• Film Riot — A how-to trip through film­mak­ing, explore the art of film­mak­ing in a way you’ve never seen
• Film State — Movie news and rumors, film trail­ers, reviews and DVDs that you need to know about, all in one place
• Foun­da­tion — Inter­views, prod­ucts and knowl­edge, hosted by Kevin Rose
• GeekBeat.TV — Keep your fin­ger on the pulse of the wired world with the day’s hottest sto­ries, tips, trends and news, all in one place
• Hak5 — Hack­ing in the old-school sense, cov­er­ing every­thing from net­work secu­rity, open source and foren­sics, to DIY mod­ding and the home­brew scene
• HD Nation — Your guide to the best in HD con­tent and home the­ater gear, no mat­ter what your bud­get is
• Life­hacker — Hack your life with this show from lifehacker.com
• Penn Point — A front row seat to the witty, infor­ma­tive, and pro­lific points of view of host Penn Jil­lette of Penn & Teller
• Scam School — Award-winning magi­cian Brian Brush­wood takes view­ers on an inside tour of bar tricks, street cons, and scams
• Sci­en­tific Tues­days — Bring­ing the lab to your lap­top with the coolest sci­ence exper­i­ments on the web
• Tekzilla — Hands-on reviews of the lat­est gear, tips and tricks that improve the tech you already own, and con­ver­sa­tions with the most infor­ma­tive experts around
• Tom’s Top 5 — From the hottest gad­gets and down­loads to the weird­est inter­net memes, Tom’s Top 5 is the newest go-to resource for what peo­ple are really talk­ing about in the nerd-osphere
• The Totally Rad Show — Your hosts rip into the world of movies, video games, TV, comics, and more and pull out what’s rad
• The Young Turks — The largest online news show in the world, com­bin­ing all of the news that peo­ple care about in one place, includ­ing polit­i­cal, pop cul­ture, and sports news

Livin’ large

The videos come in two sizes, reg­u­lar and large. The reg­u­lar size is per­fect for on-the-go view­ing, or if you have an older phone. The large size offers great full-screen qual­ity for newer phones that are con­nected via Wi-Fi or 4G.

Where do I find it?

You’ll find all of these new shows in Kinoma Guide > Providers > Revision3.

Enjoy!

If you know have other favorite con­tent that we should include in Kinoma Guide, send links and short descrip­tions to content@kinoma.com and we’ll add them for every­one to enjoy.

Since 1986, the People’s Choice Pod­cast Awards (bet­ter known as the Pod­cast Awards) have been awarded to the best pod­casts as voted by the people.

Hap­pily, you can find every win­ner of all 22 cat­e­gories of the 7th Annual Pod­cast Awards in Kinoma Guide, right now!

The Win­ners

With­out fur­ther ado, here are the pod­casts that the peo­ple have cho­sen as their favorites. The enve­lope, please…

• People’s Choice: Tell ‘Em Steve Dave — A Smod­cast hosted by “Steve-Dave” Bryan John­son and “Fan­boy” Walt Flana­gan (Enter­tain­ment & Comedy)

• Best Pro­duced: Radi­o­lab — A patch­work of peo­ple, sounds, sto­ries and expe­ri­ences cen­tered around One Big Idea (Enter­tain­ment & Comedy)

• Best Video Pod­cast: TED — Riv­et­ing talks by remark­able peo­ple (Arts & Culture)

• Busi­ness: Career Tools — Tools for your career: Devel­op­ment, search, inter­view­ing, net­work­ing, recruit­ing, pro­mo­tions, and more (Business)

• Com­edy: Tell ‘Em Steve Dave — A Smod­cast hosted by “Steve-Dave” Bryan John­son and “Fan­boy” Walt Flana­gan (Enter­tain­ment & Comedy)

• Cultural/Arts: Decoder Ring The­atre — All-new aven­tures in the tra­di­tion of the clas­sic pro­grams of Radio’s Golden Age (Arts & Culture)

• Edu­ca­tion: The His­tory of Rome — Trac­ing the his­tory of the Roman Empire, begin­ning with Aeneas’s arrival in Italy and end­ing (some­day) with the exile of Romu­lus Augus­tu­lus, last Emperor of the West­ern Roman Empire (Edu­ca­tion > History)

• Enter­tain­ment: The Fringe Pod­cast — Fan pod­cast about the TV show Fringe (Enter­tain­ment & Com­edy > Television)

• Food and Drink: Beer Down­load — The only pod­cast that pits beers head to head in a tour­na­ment style com­pe­ti­tion to find out which beer reigns supreme (Arts & Cul­ture > Brewing)

• Gam­ing: 4Player Pod­cast — Videogame talk: What they’re play­ing, news and com­mu­nity stuff, plus the occa­sional dis­cus­sion topic and lis­tener ques­tions (Enter­tain­ment & Com­edy > Gaming)

• Gen­eral: The Sur­vival Pod­cast — Self suf­fi­ciency and self reliance in the mod­ern world (Education)

• GLBT: Sav­age Love — A GLBT-friendly sex advice pod­cast, fea­tur­ing tele­phone advice ses­sions (Arts & Culture)

• Health/Fitness: Quack­Cast — Quacks, frauds and char­la­tans (includ­ing “SCAM”: sup­ple­ments, com­ple­men­tary and alter­na­tive med­i­cine) (Sci­ence & Health)

• Mature: WTF with Marc Maron — Intimi­ate inter­views with guests, mostly come­di­ans (Enter­tain­ment & Comedy)

• Movies/Films: Doug Love Movies — A com­edy pod­cast about movies, hosted by Doug Ben­son (Arts & Cul­ture > Movies)

• Pod­Safe Music: Irish & Celtic Music Pod­cast — A mix of tra­di­tional Celtic tunes, Irish drink­ing songs, Scot­tish folk songs, bag­pipes, with music from all around the world (Music > Music Podcasts)

• Politics/News: Free Talk Live.com — The next gen­er­a­tion of issues-oriented talk, this show is about Lib­erty with a cap­i­tal L (News & Pol­i­tics > Lib­er­tar­ian Talk)

• Religion/Inspiration: Athe­ist News Pod­cast — Offi­cial pod­casts of Athi­est Nexus, with news of inter­est to athi­ests, human­ists and skep­tics (Reli­gion & Spir­i­tu­al­ity > Non-Theists)

• Sci­ence: The Skep­tics Guide to the Uni­verse — A sci­en­tific dis­cus­sion of news from the world of the para­nor­mal, fringe sci­ence, and con­tro­ver­sial claims (Sci­ence & Health)

• Sports: The BS Report — ESPN.com and ESPN the Magazine’s Bill Sim­mons talks about his favorite things in sports (Sports & Recre­ation > ESPN PodCenter)

• Tech­nol­ogy: This Week in Tech — Join Leo Laporte, John C. Dvo­rak, and other tech lumi­nar­ies in a round­table dis­cus­sion of the lat­est trends in dig­i­tal tech­nol­ogy (Tech­nolgy > TWIT.tv)

• Travel: WDW Radio Show — Pod­cast fea­tur­ing Walt Dis­ney World news, rumors, trivia and guest inter­views (Travel & Weather)

Enjoy!

To make it easy to find these pod­casts in Kinoma Guide, we’ve listed their cat­e­gory in paren­the­sis after each one. Or, just search for the pod­cast name.

If you have favorite pod­casts, radio sta­tions, video streams or other media, send a URL and short descrip­tion to content@kinoma.com. We’ll add them to Kinoma Guide for every­one to dis­cover and enjoy.