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The Commonwealth Club Podcast is a new bi-weekly podcast featuring our own Stuart Bowness.

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A fortnightly tech podcast from Charlie Cooke, Aidan Hornsby and Stuart Bowness. Three twenty-something guys from various parts of the non-American English speaking world who share an interest in technology, video and design which ranges from the accessible to the downright nerdy have a chat every two weeks and put it up on the internet for all to share. Often ranges into other topics, from the sublime to the ridiculous. A particular fascination with killing mosquitoes predominatess.

In the second episode, The North Carolina Legal Farm, Charlie, Aidan, Stuart and guest Keith Dewey discuss a variety of topics including the iPhone 5, shipping containers, the royal wedding and Apple’s upcoming YouTube killer. You can learn more at commonwealthclub.tv, subscribe on iTunes and follow them on twitter @commonwealthpod.

Posting to Locomotion has slowed down over the past week as my team has focused exclusively on the release of our first big Open Source web application codenamed “MediaCore.”

MediaCore is a free open source video, audio, and podcast publishing platform. It is built for organizations who wish to distribute media in a variety of formats on their website while maintaining the ability to control the user experience.

• Check out the project, features and docs at http://getmediacore.com
• View the demo at: http://getmediacore.com/demo
• Watch the screencast on how the product works
• Give us feedback over at Concept Feedback

Over the past year we have built the entire platform from the ground-up to create one of the most cutting-edge podcasting and media platforms available anywhere on the net. In coming months we will be documenting the process of how we created MediaCore, the stumbling blocks we hit along the way, and the lessons we have learned in designing and marketing an Open Source project. It has been an exciting road and we are looking forward to the next few months as the project unfolds.

A huge round of applause should go to Nathan Wright, Anthony Theocharis, and Melanie Wright for all their hard work in making this dream a reality for Simple Station. I couldn’t have done it without them! I would also like to thank the TurboGears development community for the valuable feedback they have provided us with throughout the development process.

We have already enjoyed some early success including a glowing email from Leo Laporte of TWIT.TV, and a whole slew of feedback from various web design agencies. As the project continues to evolve we will be leaning heavily on the community for guidance on design feedback and feature requests.

If you are a fan of MediaCore you might want to consider following us on Twitter or becoming a fan of MediaCore on Facebook