http://www.podiobooks.com/blog/2008/03/13/city-of-masks I’m a big fan of “podcast novels”, serialized audiobooks that come straight to my MP3 player.  Beats carrying around big honkin hardcovers.  Plus I can’t read while driving or walking across town, but I can listen. The description for this one calls it “a swashbuckling adventure in a setting reminiscent of Shakespeare’s Italy (complete with twins).”  No idea if it’ll really have any connection to Shakespeare, but I tend to sign up for the new podiobooks as they come out regardless.  I can always cancel after a chapter or two if I don’t like it.

Pardon my breaking from the Shakespeare thing for a bit, but I’m looking to talk to some high school students / teachers about my day job.  As I’ve mentioned my company offers a service for helping kids get into college (research, transcript management, resumes and profiles, all that sort of stuff).  US only right now.  Anyway, we developers have been tasked with doing some guerilla marketing to get more kids signed up and I thought “Hey, I have an audience that’s likely to have high school people in it.” So if you’re a high school student, or regularly surrounded by high school students, and you’d like to do me a favor, please drop me a line at dmorin@connectedu.net (my work address, you’ll note).  I’d love to ask you some questions.  Thanks!

http://blogs.enotes.com/shakespeare/2008-03/staging-shakespeare-the-cast/ I always thought it odd in this play that they do the whole Christopher Sly thing at the beginning (convincing a drunk that he’s actually a wealthy nobleman watching a play), but it never goes anywhere.   I refuse to call it “a play within a play” on those grounds. The above post suggests, and maybe somebody here has details, that there’s apparently more to that story?  It would make a great deal more sense if there was some sort of closure to that meta-story.

http://geek.shakespearezone.com/?p=2397 I don’t think that this blog is particularly Shakespeare related, but I like the way the author is experimenting with the sonnet form.  A sonnet that starts out in iambic pentameter and drops off to mono-meter is cool.

http://pixeltheatre.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/shakespeare-in-sl-also-on-youtube/ I knew this was happening, and I wish I’d taken the time to watch it first hand.  Looks pretty neat.