Written by: J. Xavier Marcus ("Very Small Doses") If you were at the Podcast and New Media Expo this past weekend in Ontario, you probably caught a glimpse of this guy in the "secret service"-type outfit. He was hard to miss, floating up and down the halls during the keynote addresses of Howard Lindzon, Creator [...]
Staggering Stories
September 24, 2007 By 2 Comments
We here at Slice of SciFi would like to give a shout-out to the guys over at the "Staggering Stories Podcast" and thank them for the kind words they gave us on their latest show. If you've never had the chance to listen to them, then we recommend you take the time to do so. [...]
Online Radio Is Saved
July 13, 2007 By 1 Comment
Submitted by: Michael R. Mennenga (President, Farpoint Media) SoundExchange Will Not Enforce New Royalty Rates on Sunday! By: Eliot Van Buskirk -- Wired At today's Congressional hearing about the new rates for online radio that would essentially destroy it (as readers of this blog already know), SoundExchange, which was scheduled to receive the new royalty [...]
Internet - Private or Public?
July 12, 2007 By 1 Comment
Hello one and all: Though most of my email's have been about subject matters dealing directly with your shows/site platforms, this email won't be specifically related. In case you guys weren't aware, in 3 days the FCC will be making decisions that will affect how the Internet will be maintained, whether by the public sector [...]
**Announcement -- Slice of SciFi Programming Change**
June 15, 2007 By 13 Comments
Beginning with Slice of SciFi Show #114 on June 21, 2007, we are changing the release day for all future shows. In order to better sync with XM-Satellite Radio, new episodes for the Slice of SciFi Show will be ready for download on Thursday instead of Wednesday as is the current scheduling period. The Voice [...]
Fanboy Smackdown Looks at "Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed"
May 25, 2007 By Leave a Comment
"STAR WARS: THE LEGACY REVEALED" is a documentary that looks at the Star Wars 30 year old franchise and airs this Sunday, May 28, 2007 at 9PM EST on cable TV's The History Channel Thirty years ago today, a film opened to forty theaters. That film went on to pave the way for Science Fiction [...]
Indiana Jim: Star Wars Extravaganza
April 27, 2007 By 4 Comments
In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars our good friend Indiana Jim has a big upcoming Star Wars shindig planned for his podcast that we here at Slice of SciFi want to clue you in on. It's called the "T.A.L.U. Star Wars Extravaganza" and will feature interviews with the likes of Nathan P. [...]
The British "Podcast" Invasion
April 21, 2007 By 1 Comment
There is a new scifi podcast now available called "British Invaders" and it promises to put the class in British Sci-fi. The show stars two podcasters separated by the Big Gray -- Brian Doob, a software developer in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and Xander, an an applied physicist who lives in Surrey, England. This new podcast [...]
Welcome To SciFi Smackdown
March 14, 2007 By Leave a Comment
The new SciFi Smackdown has finally arrived so, "LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!" This is the show that you, the fans, demanded. Spawned from Slice of SciFi, SciFi Smackdown is here to once and for all answer the question of who would win in a fight between the greatest icons of Science Fiction. Your SciFi [...]
Pod-Novelist Coming Into Their Own
March 1, 2007 By 8 Comments
The New York Times has taken notice of the impact that internet podcasting, and the Pod Novel in particular, are beginning to have on the world of literature and writing and the way it is presented to the public. This fairly new medium is starting to take the publishing industry by storm and changing the [...]
Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2006 Attending Balticon 41
January 10, 2007 By 1 Comment
Written by: Paul Fischer (Balticon Podcast) No, really, it’s true! Time’s Person of the Year for 2006 celebrated creators and users of content for the Internet, and, boy, do we have some great New Media content creators coming to Balticon 41, Special Guests of Honor Michael R. Mennenga and Evo Terra. Mike and Evo are [...]
Galacticast Walks Off With 5 Awards
November 7, 2006 By 3 Comments
Executive producer Casey McKinnon and the whole gang over at Galacticast have won a total of 5 awards at the Vloggies this weekend! Known for parodying all the worlds of geekdom through some of the best satirically funny and irreverent videos made for the net, Galacticast picked up their awards in these 5 separate categories: [...]
"Firefly" Star Nathan Fillion Appears In Podcast Novel
November 1, 2006 By 5 Comments
Sci-fi action star makes cameo in hit "podiobook" series, 7th Son Fresh from the first-ever launch party for a novel in the online community Second Life, the 7th Son podcast novel trilogy has achieved another "first" in podcast history: Actor Nathan Fillion, star of the TV sci-fi series "Firefly" and film "Serenity," will appear in [...]
A New Podcast Dedicated to "Heroes"
October 17, 2006 By 6 Comments
Joe and Miranda, those fine folks from Fireflytalk and The Signal, now bring you the first podcast dedicated to the new hit NBC SF drama "Heroes called, The NINTH - A Heroes Podcast. The cast is designed to keep all lovers of Heroes up-to-date weekly, airing every Monday before a new episode of the television [...]
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