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The George Lucas Educational Foundation has started a new educational and podcast project called Edutopia, an attempt to raise the standards of education in the 21st century through the use of leading-edge interactive tools and resources.  The project features a large podcast presence with eight unique podcast feeds on subjects including integrating new technologies, assessing student progress, developing learning techniques through unique projects such as gardening and recreating communities from faraway countries, and much more.  Check out the Edutopia channel on Podcast.com to learn where this acclaimed Hollywood producer wants to lead the educational field in the years to come.

We just tabulated your Top 25 podcasts on Podcast.com for the month of August! The Top 25 is representative of the podcasts you are listening to and watching on the Podcast.com website. As was the case in each of the past two months, we had eight new podcasts in the list this month, and — same as last month — six of those podcasts were in our Top 25 two months ago.  Looks like you have been consistent in the podcasts you want because the same podcasts keep appearing in our top 25.

Will there be a new eight (or more? less?) new podcasts in the Top 25 next month?  If your favorite podcast is missing from this list, all you have to do is listen to it or watch it on the Podcast.com site for it to make the Top 25 podcast list for the month of August.  For now, here’s the Top 25 podcasts for August with the new entries into the list in bold letters:

1. World Soccer Daily Podcast
2. Dictionary.com Word Explorer
3. Oroscopo di Leonardo.it
4. CNN News Update
5. Midwest Teen Sex Show
6. 60/20 Sports with James Carville and Luke Russert
7. Open Source Sex
8. 60 Minutes Podcast
9. NOVA (PBS)
10. BBC Global News
11. Sex is Fun
12. Slate Magazine Daily Podcast
13. Greg Laurie Video on LightSource.com
14. ABC World News (Enhanced Video)
15. Geek News Central Podcast
16. Voices from the 2006 ACLU Membership Conference
17. BBC NewsPod
18. ESPN Radio Daily Podcast
19. Il Ruggito Del Coniglio
20. Flipping Channels: a feature program from Podcast.com (TM)
21. Scott Mills Daily
22. Best of Chris Moyles
23. MSNBC News Headlines
24. The Men’s View - FREE funny comedy sex podcast
25. New York Times Music Popcast

These podcasts dropped out of the Top 25 this month:

• Disney Channel Shorty McShorts’ Podcast (Video)
• SuicideGirls Radio
• Filmspotting
• AP NewsPulse
• CNET News.com Daily Tech News Podcast
• Face the Nation
• Fetish Flame
• French Maid TV

For a good recap of the action and preview of what’s to come, we made a couple new channels for both last week’s Democratic National Convention podcasts and this week’s Republican National Convention podcasts.  Check them here:

• Republicans: rnc.podcast.com
• Democrats: dnc.podcast.com 

In case you didn’t see it before, we also have an (archival) channel for Barack Obama podcasts (does McCain do podcasts?).  Or check our previous update on the Politics of Podcasts from early 2008.

Labor Day USA has come and gone … by why does it have to go?  It doesn’t with Labor Day podcasts.  Each month we collect podcast episodes about a general subject of interest, and September’s feature on Podcast.com is Labor Day USA. Check out our playlist to see our short collection of five different podcast episodes that celebrate our fathers and all the great things dads do for us — and can do for themselves on their day.  You can subscribe to our playlist here. Hope you enjoy this Labor Day feature on Podcast.com, and send an email to info at podcast.com if you have an episodes (audio) or feeds you’d like to add to this feature.

You can find this and other features at my.podcast.com/features (make sure you click on the ‘View All Episodes’ icon in the middle of the screen to see every episode we collected).