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The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 20 or so short Internet related articles, tips and tricks and a regular search engine of the month feature.

This month’s podcast celebrates the 100th edition of Zen Internet’s free monthly newsletter, first published in March, 2001, when the top story was "the latest news about ADSL – affordable high-speed Internet connectivity that’s up to forty times faster than the fastest dial-up modem".

This month, a selection of stories from the Zen Monthly archive have been picked from the newsletter’s eight year history.

This podcast is derived from a monthly newsletter published by Zen Internet and recorded and produced by Silicon Bay. The podcast is reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet.

This Month’s Podcast

The Internet Monthly – June 2009:

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This Month’s Articles

This month’s edition of The Internet Monthly podcast contains the following articles. A list of links associated with each article are included for reference:

1. HITTING A CENTURY – Zen internet’s 100th newsletter
   • www.zen.co.uk/newsletter 
2. SURVIVING THE SLUR (May 2002) – The real SPAM (in a can)
   • www.spam.com 
3. NEIGHBOURHOOD NATIVES (January 2003) – Discover native plants to your area
   • www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/plants-fungi/postcode-plants
4. BROADSHEETS ABROAD (February 2004) – Read newspapers online
• www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/main.asp
• www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx
5. FREEVIEW (January 2005) – Watch any video format online 
• www.videolan.org/vlc
6. SNIPSHOTS (February 2005) – Cut and paste from websites
• www.netsnippets.com/basic/intro.htm
7. INSTANT PAGES (June 2006) – Websites at their simplest
   • www.shorttext.com
8. COPIED SEARCHES REVEALED (September 2006) – Google search information revealed 
   • blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-08-07-n22.html
9. LOOKING UP (March 2007) – British Library redesigns its website 
• www.bl.uk
10. FIGHT THE BULL (March 2007) – Filtering out bovine scatology
    • www.fightthebull.com/putinthering.asp
11. SEAT SIXTY-ONE (March 2007) – Eco friendly travelling  
    • www.seat61.com
12. WORDY WINNER (May 2007) – The YouTube for documents
    • www.scribd.com
13. STOP PRESS (August 2007)– The internet has crashed
• www.theonion.com/content/node/63609
14. BUSINESS WIKI (September 2007) – A British business listing site
    • www.bizwiki.co.uk/faq.htm
    • www.bizwiki.co.uk/businessoptions.htm 
15. KNOWING YOU (December 2007) – A personal profile website
    • www.zoominfo.com
16. WEB HISTORY (March 2008) – View old web pages
    • www.archive-it.org
    • web.archive.org 
17. ZAMZAR (April 2008) – A free file conversion website
    • www.zamzar.com
18. AGGREGATE THE POSITIVE (April 2008) – Top content from the web  
• popurls.com
19. FREE TUBE (January 2009) – A free alternative to satellite TV
    • freetube.110mb.com/index.php
20. RURAL RECEPTION (February 2009) – A Countryside TV channel
    • www.countrychannel.tv
21. FOCUS BEFORE SEARCH (April 2009) – A business oriented search engine
• www.newssift.com

This podcast is sponsored and reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet Limited. The music on the podcast was provided courtesy of Will Tang.