I think the first one that I heard of, and still extremely popular, is Podcasts for Running by Robert Ullrey.  This was the podcast that I used previously on my last effort to start running.  I blamed my failure on the aggressiveness of this podcast when it was probably my weight along with my poor running technique that caused my knee injury and dropping the running.  These podcasts were produced in 2006 and are truly timeless.

This time I am expanding my musical horizons with Suz’s Couch to 5K program.  She was inspired by Podcasts for Running and uses the same program.  Instead of the wordless techno of the Ullrey podcasts, Suz uses hip-hop and 80′s music.  I’ve completed week 1 and just did the first week 2 run and I learned a couple things on week 2.  Kanye West shared “Now I ain’t sayin’ she a gold digger, but she ain’t messin’ wit no broke niggaz.” and I learned via The Black Eyed Peas that I need to “get retarded”.  Very enlightening.

Another popular version was created by DJ Steve Boyett over at Podrunner.com.  He calls his First Day to 5K and it’s part of his Podrunner Intervals series.  There are also two follow up programs called Gateway to 8K and Freeway to 10K.  Unlike the previous two, the Podrunner podcasts don’t contain any voices.  The cues are ascending and descending tones to let you know when to kick it up or slow it down.  As Steve explained, this was to make the podcasts compatible with non-English speaking countries.  Good idea.

One last one that just came to my attention is being produced right now at Runningmatemedia.com.  When I first tweeted about starting my C25K program again, I received a reply to check it out.  I have not listened to these completely yet, and will definitely do so in trying to mix up my running.  These are currently being produced and can be found over at Podomatic.

That’s it for now.

I would view tweets as they came in and started to question what I was reading. At first it was tweets like:

Through a single ITC adjuvant, I can strengthen cellular resistance and induce an immediate immune system response!

and

Despite these small obstacles, I am considering Intragen test 40-CFR-05 a partial success.

But soon thereafter, it turned into:

I must destroy all of my work – the risk is too great. I know he will want to test it on humans.

and

I cannot allow them to have this technology. It is far to dangerous in the wrong hands. I created this to heal, not to destroy.

Bells started going off and I was starting to think that I’d been duped. Then last night a tweet with just a TinyURL was posted by IngenBio and I knew for a fact that no. 1, I’d been a sucker and no. 2, I’d enjoyed every bit of it. Here’s the MP3 that was linked to in the tweet.

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Very cool, but way over the top. I started an investigation of what IngenBio was all about and didn’t have to search long before I found a post at Wikibruce and my search for the truth behind IngenBio came to an end. It turns out it’s a viral marketing campaign for a new graphic novel called Infex that’s making a debut at Comic Con. Check out the Wikibruce link for video and links to other media.

So with the information I have now, I think that I prefer this new reality of a marketing campaign for a graphic novel over a rogue biologist creating killer compounds in some lab. Oh, and the network security is so lax that a researcher is using Twitter to spill the beans on that research. Why did I ever think that was was even remotely real? What a rube!

Also, what a great use of social media to get your project noticed. Kudos.

However, if you’re a sometime updater like me, all of your better posts, or at least the more interesting posts, get pushed off the front page of the blog.

Not good.

I’m looking for a new tool, or for Alex King to update TwitterTools to create a configurable digest for posts. That might fit my need better if I could pull all the tweets into a weekly digest instead of the annoying daily.

Have you integrated Twitter with your blog? What tool do you use?

The second one came in just today, minutes ago. It’s the reminder to make sure that everyone knows the shortcut that you’re using otherwise there may be some misunderstanding.

A later tweet by dlprager explained that oh: means overheard. I think the damage is done.