I heard a very interesting podcast interviewing Luis von Ahn, one of the inventors of the CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). These are the images of distorted letters you have to type. They let the service know that you are a real person and not a [...]
Michael Stephens has followed last year’s Library Technology Reports — Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software — with another — Web 2.0 & Libraries: Trends and Technologies. According to Stephens:
. . . we’ll revisit some of the social tools presented in Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software, address [...]
The National Archives has created a podcast series called Presidential Archives Uncovered. From the website:
Each month, we broadcast historical clips from the Libraries’ collection, ranging from serious policy discussions to conversations with family members.
Listen to the voices of Presidents Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. We’ll add [...]
ALA has pulled together all of their “2.0″ tools within the Read Write Connect Wiki. This is a nice list and, best of all, all the RSS feeds are here, so you don’t have to hunt them down within the unit web pages. At this point, the categories include:
Blogs
Discussion forums (although nothing is there quite [...]
The current issue of Library Technology Reports provides an overview of best practices for implementing social software in libraries. Michael Stephens has authored the July/August 2006 issue “Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software.” The table of contents and a few key pages are available on the web. The cost is $63.00.
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Colette Vogele and Mia Garlick, both of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, have published the Podcasting Legal Guide. Much of the information has to do with copyright and should be familiar to libraries, however, there are sections that deal with audio and trademarks. Definitely a good read if you are thinking [...]
Yahoo! Podcasts Beta is now available. Search and subscribe to podcasts. See what other listeners have chosen or add tags to your own choices. They have also provided a short tutorial on how to create a podcast, which of course, they want you to add to their growing collection.
[from LJTech Blog]
TVEyes now has a search engine called Podscope which searches podcasts. All words within a podcast are searchable. Instead of seeing a web page, the result would be hearing the audio of a podcast. This service also indexes the audio content within video blogs.
[from beSpecific]
