Category: Ideas
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Followup on PowerGramo (voice recording for Skype)
I’ve had a chance to try out PowerGramo (Skype voice recorder for Windows) and it sounds incredible! It starts recording as soon as the call is initiated – you have the option of turning it off right away, but this is a nice feature as you don’t have to remember to turn it on. Of…
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More RSS to voice
Strange, I’m honestly not even looking for these things, and already I’ve tripped across another RSS – voice/podcast service. This one’s called Feed2Podcast, and it features a male robot voice instead of a female one like Talkr uses. Again, it’s pretty decent, and if you want to, you can subscribe to my male robot podcast…
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Podcasting with The Distant Librarian (sorta)
This is a little experiment. I just found a service called Talkr that will take any RSS feed and turn the text into an mp3 file, read by a nice robot female voice. It’s surprisingly good! Not only can you give them an RSS feed to turn into mp3s, but I can, and have, given…
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::schwagbag::: Michigan students may require online course to graduate
Sherri reports that Michigan students may require online course to graduate. These are HS students, but I agree with her – what an interesting idea, and neat to hear that someone in Michigan understands how important distance education is. Now I wish I’d kept a link to a recent report that showed quite a few…
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Triangulation 1: Google Print
One of my favourite podcasts is Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tech (TWiT). Very high production values and good, current topics. Leo and John C. Dvorak (not my favourite) have started a new podcast called Triangulation, in which they have three experts (presumably they will always be two of the three?) discuss a given topic. …
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LIRT seeks e-poster presentations for ALA annual conference in New Orleans
Sue Sykes Berry writes to the OFFCAMP listserv: (this would be ideal for anyone who’s got some great screencasting ability) The Library Instruction Round Table’s Conference Program Committee and Teaching Learning and Technology Committee are currently accepting electronic poster (e-poster) proposals for the ALA annual conference to be held in New Orleans June 22-28, 2006.…
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A Risky Gamble with Google
Siva Vaidhyanathan, friend to librarians, has a lengthy piece in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education called A Risky Gamble with Google (the link goes to his blog where the full text of the article is reproduced). The piece is mostly a discussion about the copyright implications of the Google Book Search project (this post describes…
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Opinions on Google Book Search
Early last week I read a pretty interesting piece by George Dyson called Turing’s Cathedral; it’s a summary of a talk he gave during a visit to Google HQ last month. Most of the article went over my head, but the quote he used to close the piece really struck a chord: "When our machines…
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Where Learners Go – Library Journal
Good solid article from a good solid source (Joan K. Lippincott, Ph.D., is Associate Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information) This article will be a good one to pull out if you need to convince your administrators of the importance of whatever newfangled thing it is you’re trying to do right now… Link: Library Journal…
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Audio – Competing with Google: Library Strategies
Did you get the theme of the keynotes at Internet Librarian 2005 year? Here’s the final keynote (endnote?) I recorded – Stephen Abram closing the conference with the topic of Competing with Google: Library Strategies (mp3 about 38 minutes). Stephen usually posts his powerpoints, so I’ll add the link here when it shows up. Very entertaining…