Queen Elizabeth to podcast annual Christmas message

Alright peoples, it's official: podcasting isn't just for us geeks anymore. While some American and German politicians have recently taken up podcasting as the newest way to reach out to younger voters, it appears that the Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is now jumping on the podwagon as well. In addition to more traditional terrestrial broadcasting, Her Royal Highness Majesty will be making her annual Christmas message to the Commonwealth at 3:00 pm GMT (that's 10:00 am US Eastern time) on Monday, December 25 available as a podcast to all those who really want to hear her opine away. Given that Liz apparently has an iPod (as of 2005 it was an iPod mini), a cellphone (no word on what kind), and a boatload of new TVs, we're sure that any day now we'll start seeing emails in our tip box from [e-mail].

[Via Futurismic]

[Xavier Gill @ Dec 22nd 2006 2:39PM]

Hey i tiped you on this Cyrus you cheeky bastard!

[The Jeremy @ Dec 22nd 2006 2:40PM]

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

[Joe @ Dec 22nd 2006 2:58PM]

Her Royal Highness is actually incorrect when referring to the Queen, as "Highness" is usually associated with princes and princesses. The British Queen should be titled "H.M." for "Her Majesty". :p

[Khuffie @ Dec 22nd 2006 3:26PM]

So you mean, along with a radio and tv broadcast, there will be an MP3 version online that people can download? Wow! Newsworthy! Wewt! Wait, it has the word 'pod' in it. I see now.

[Corbo @ Dec 22nd 2006 3:58PM]

This is bizarre. I remember reading a little cartoon in Private Eye (British satirical politics magazine) that had someone listening to the Queen's podcast about a fortnight ago. Isn't there some quote about life imitating satire?
Still, it's not entirely surprising and I can't imagine it's the Queen doing much of the work anymore than she handles the camera angles or broadcasting of her speech. The image of the Queen hunched up over a keyboard with headphones on and a copy of Audacity running is an amusing one though.

[The Jeremy @ Dec 22nd 2006 4:24PM]

Does anyone else agree that Rupert Murdoch should be sent to Camp X-Ray as punishment for his tabloids tarnishing the image of the Royal Family over the past two decades?

Granted, Bond already dispatched Rupert's cinematic representation in *Tomorrow Never Dies*.

[tekdroid @ Dec 22nd 2006 8:00PM]

I hope there's a FLAC download befitting of non-lameness.
http://flac.sourceforge.net

[LTM @ Dec 22nd 2006 8:34PM]

actually if you do your homework; there never was a Queen Elizabeth the 1st in Scotland, so therefore she can't be Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, but no one really pays attention to that point, not even in the U.K.

[autopilot @ Dec 23rd 2006 3:51PM]

Well you might as well post it on a US Blog, as not many of us here in the UK will bother listening. Our royal family seem to have more of a following over there then in the UK anyway.

[Tom @ Dec 24th 2006 5:14AM]

I can't believe no one has made this joke yet, but oh well...

"This year, my husband and iPod"