Dragonlance Nexus, the site behind the Dragonlance Canticle, has been nominated for an Ennie for best fan site!

Unfortunately, the Canticle itself did not get nominated for best podcast. That’s okay, though, since they’ve just started this year and have such great podcasts as Fear the Boot to contend against.

For those not in the know, the Ennies are the big RPG awards at GenCon each year.

The Dragonlance Nexus was created in 2001 by Tracy Hickman, Matt Haag and Trampas Whiteman. Beyond the Dragonlance Canticle podcast, the Dragonlance Nexus offers a Lexicon, a product listing with over 125 Dragonlance novels, a fan section with art, music, and rules for the Dragonlance RPG, and so much more.

Voting for the Ennies will be open to the public on July 16. Be sure to cast your vote to support the Dragonlance Nexus!”

July 10th, 2007 — Precision Pictures Pty Ltd. announced today it has acquired the film rights to Parsec Award winning author Matt Wallace’s acclaimed experimental podcast novel The Failed Cities Monologues. The Sydney-based production company has also purchased the rights to Wallace’s short story “Delve.” The author will adapt both properties for the screen himself.

“It ain’t Rogue Pictures,” Matt says, referring to fellow Podiobooks author Scott Sigler, whose novel Infested was recently optioned by the Universal Studios subsidiary, “but I’m definitely excited. Mostly because it excuses me from getting that job at Kinko’s for another couple of months, at least.”

Matt is currently scripting an as-of-yet unnamed project for another Australian production team. He expects to begin working on the adaptations within the next few months.

The Failed Cities Monologues are set in a dystopian version of New York City and combine elements of cyberpunk, noir, and gothic horror. It is notable for its multi-perspective storytelling technique, which shifts between the point of view of eight different protagonists. “Delve” is set on a small space station in the distant future and concerns a small group of people working to reconstitute the human race after it has been decimated by a bizarre plague.

Both The Failed Cities Monologues and “Delve” originally appeared on the award-winning Variant Frequencies podcast, a member of the Farpoint Media family of podcasters.

Chuck Tomasi and Kreg Steppe of Technorama released an interview with Martin Wilkie. Martin is one of the people behind the Doctor Who Exhibitions (the head of design) in the UK. Find out more about the exhibitions and Martin’s unique connection to Doctor Who in the interview at ChuckChat.com.

Cat and Lynne with Lipstick Aliens and Brad, Christina and Glenn with Podculture are bringing fresh new viewpoints on the television, film and pop culture interests that capture our time week by week.

Uber-blogger Sci Fi Ranter Girl aka Cat, teams up with award winning video podcaster Lynne Gryphon from Sci Fi News, to bring you the Lipstick Aliens audio podcast, now featured as part of the Farpoint Media family of podcasts.

With a sexy Texas voice and a sassy Australian accent, the girls come together from around the world to offer you the latest on sci fi from the perspective of two fan girls.

Avid followers of all things sci fi, the girls discuss the latest episodes of your favorite shows such as Heroes, Lost, Stargate, Battlestar, Dr Who, Torchwood, Blood Ties, 4400, and the season’s hottest movies.

The show also features interviews with authors, actors, and other sci fi personalities, as well as the girls’ adventures in the online virtual world. Come and join them with their weekly sci fi antics and subscribe now

WhatTheCast, hosted by some of the minds behind Dragon*ConTV, is one of the newest members of the FarPoint Media family of podcasts. It can also be downloaded from iTunes.

WhatTheCast is a view of the world from an engineer, a rocket scientist (yes, he has stuff in orbit), a recovering college student and the guy who plays the village idiot at the Ren Faire (that’s just a part-time gig, don’t hold it against him). The talk revolves around a variety of topics, depending on what’s interesting at any particular moment.

We are happy to announce the going Live of “Freshly Green,” a website dedicated to looking at all sides of the issues surrounding Earth’s environment, such as global warming, conservation, species endangerment, decline and extinction, as well as what we as inhabitants of this blue orb can do to make it a better, safer and lovelier place to live on for us and all future generations. Jarsto van Santen is our news manager for the site. Just click on “Freshly Green” for all the latest news.

The other new site we now offer has a less serious tone to it, but is one we have been looking forward to bringing to you for quite sometime. This one is done all in fun and for the love of zombies. That’s right, FarPoint Media is proud to introduce “The Zombie Channel.” Vern Hart, will be the news manager finding zombie news from all over the globe and bringing it to you. Just link to “The Zombie Channel” and have a blast.

Beginning with Slice of SciFi Show #115 on June 30, 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 Saturday instead of Wednesday as is the current scheduling period.

The Voice Mail show will move from Tuesday to Friday starting June 29, 2007.

For our LIVE FEED listeners the Slice of SciFi Voice Mail and regular show will now be recorded on Thursday evenings at approximately 5:30PM Mountain (Arizona) Time.

We look forward to continue bringing you our best in scifi and genre related news and interviews on this new day beginning next week.

Today, Friday June 15, 2007, Technorama released a special interview with Photographer Kim Brungraber. Kim specializes in underwater photography. Chuck invited Kim to the ChuckChat studios to get the scoop on what it takes to produce images in such a challenging medium.

Listen to the show at this Link. Also stop by and visit Kim Brungraber’s Site.

He’s from the Empire. He’s here to help

TD-0013, writer and performer of the popular “A Different Point of View” segments and upcoming FarPoint Media distributed show “A Different Point of View: The Podcast” needs your help!

The surly Stormtrooper will be donning the armor and full regalia of the Imperial Sandtrooper and walking 6.1 miles in the Arizona sun to raise money to help fight Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that generally strikes people between the ages of 20 and 50. Symptoms can range from numbness in the limbs to paralysis or loss of vision. The progress, severity, and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatments are giving hope to those affected by the disease.

“I do this every year because it´s something I can be proactive in,” TD-0013 said. “Most of the events I´m part of, the 501st is used as glorified ’set-pieces’, or giant action figures. These are all great events too, but I guess the MS Walk is my baby because I feel like I´m helping make a future change. I´m doing something to help cure and prevent it.”
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Veteran podcast producers Chuck Tomasi and Kreg Steppe, hosts of the extremely popular “TECHNORAMA”, have joined the rapidly growing FarPoint Media podcast entertainment network.

TECHNORAMA is a weekly Podcast that spotlights recent tech and science news, interviews with respected industry leaders, and showcases original humor. Tomasi and Steppe boast a combined experience of over 40 years in computers and technology and also throw in special interviews with notable geeks on geek topics. Steppe explains, “We’ve talked to the manager of the National Railroad Museum, Adam Savage and Grant Imahara of Mythbusters, Steve Wozniak the co-founder of Apple Computer, Leo Laporte, and tons more. 2007 is shaping up to be another great year for interviews on TECHNORAMA.”

FarPoint Media’s Jeffrey Willerth is excited about the “TECHNORAMA” addition. “We’re thrilled to have Chuck and Kreg join the FPM family. They are well respected in the Podcast community and have their fingers on the pulse of this emerging entertainment medium.” Willerth adds, “Chuck is so confident that FPM is headed in the right direction to help take Podcasting to the next level, he agreed to bring three other shows from his ChuckChat.com into the fold.”
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