Griffin has introduced an iTrip for the iPod nano.  The device uses the nano dock connector and slides onto the back of the nano.  The device uses the nano screen to display information.

This week has been declared Worldwide Remembrance Week by the World Wide Help Group. A group of bloggers who have been using the power of the web to help with disaster relief.

This is an open call to all podcasters to help spread the word about disaster remembrance week

Last year, on the 26th December, an earthquake, and then a tsunami, killed, wounded, or impoverished hundreds of thousands of people in South Asia.

During the course of the year, other disasters took their toll too. Most devastating of them: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the South-East coast of the USA; and another enormous earthquake near Pakistan’s border with India.

These disasters took their immediate toll, and, each time, the world tried to help. But as calamity piled upon calamity, there has been a certain amount of fatigue. Perhaps people’s stock of goodwill has run low. Perhaps seeing too much suffering hardens us.

But, the fact is, the suffering from those disasters has not ceased. Parts of South Asia have still not recovered from December 26th, 2004. In the USA, normalcy hasn’t returned to New Orleans. In Pakistan, thousands are still homeless, and may not survive the harsh Himalayan winter.

They need your help.

Last December and this January, the online community came together as never before to help in the aid efforts in South-East Asia. The lessons learned there were put to use, and improved upon, when the other tragic events of the year unfolded.

Can we harness that goodwill, that togetherness, that willingness to help once more?

The WorldWideHelp group would like you to join us in Remembrance Week. Here’s what we suggest you do.

Use your podcast, blogs, your home pages, your wikis, your newsletters. Link to your favourite charities and NGOs, write a paragraph about them and the work they are doing, and ask your readers to make a donation. (If you’d like to find some more charities and NGOs, please take a look at this page on our TsunamiHelp wiki, this one on our KatrinaHelp wiki, or this one on our QuakeHelp wiki.

To find our more about how you can help spread the word visit World Wide Help

The Museum of Modern Art is offering up a podcast to go with an exhibit of Pixar’s CG models, paintings, pencil drawings, maquettes, color scripts, and sketches.  The exhibit is called Pixar: 20 Years of Animation, and is now being held at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC until February 6 of ‘06.

MoMa is offeringa podcast that you can listen to as your standing next to a specific artwork.   Each item in MoMA’s RSS feed corresponds to a different piece of art in the museum.  To hear the podcasts about the Pixar exhibit go to items 670-680.  

You can also view a flash version of the Moma podcast synchronized with views of the art., Enjoy to the program program

InfoWorld today announced that it is providing InfoWorld Daily podcast listeners a sneak peak at the winners of its annual Technology of the Year awards. The awards will be pre-announced during a special segment within the podcasts on December 27, 28, and 29. This marks the first time that an InfoWorld award was first announced via podcast before publication on InfoWorld.com or in the weekly print edition.

InfoWorld’s annual awards highlight the passing year’s key IT trends and unveil InfoWorld’s picks for the most innovative and effective products impacting IT in the coming year.  The first of three Technology of the Year pre-announcements is available for immediate download at: http://akamai.infoworld.com/podcasts/IFW_Daily_12-27-05.mp3.

These  iPod Nanos have been hacked to allow them to play video.  If the hackers can make this work, Apple can’t be far behind.

Podcasting has entered the health care arena in a big way at the Arizona Heart Institute and Hospital.  The institute has produced a series of  video podcasts with titles such as coronary artery bypass and  congestive heart failure.  The project is called Cardiovascular Multi-Media Information Network.  The videos are designed to  help educate patients about their diseases and the treatments.  The hospital providers loaner iPods for patients who don’t have one.

You can find a complete listing of the podcasts in the Digital Podcast Directory.

Apple is now offering Sci Fi Inside: Battlestar Galactica free on the iTunes Music Store. The show takes a look at life on board the Battlestar Galactica.

The half-hour special premiered on iTunes on Thursday, well ahead of its Jan. 2 first cable airing. The telecast serves as a lead-in for the winter premiere of Battlestar Galactica on Jan. 6.

MySoldius.com is now offering an iPod charger using the power of the sun. The charger is compatible with the G2-G4 ipods, mini, shuffle and Nano along with lots of different cellphones.

Available in white at $99.99.

ABC added new hit series “Commander in Chief” to its roster of programs available through Apple’s iTunes Music Store on Tuesday.

New episodes of the series, which stars Geena Davis depicting the first female president of the United States, will be downloadable the day after they air for $1.99. Previous episodes will also be available.

Google’s Zeitgeist provides an interesting comparison of podcast search volume to iPods. The little blip up mid year was probably the addition of podcasts to iTunes.

For more interesting search analysis visit Google Zeitgeist