Archive for October, 2006

Librivox Community Podcast 2nd November 2006

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

The latest Librivox Community Podcast is now available at archive.org or via your podcatcher using the xml, http://umor.co.uk/podcast.xml
This issue features Henry reading the stats, Euterpe Archipelago playing some music and Gesine telling us about Librivox and the nanowrimo project.
The link mentioned in the podcast for the Librivox nanowrimo podcast is http://librivoxpodcast.googlepages.com/nanowrimo_podcast.xml
The first podcast [...]

barcamp & billionswithzeroknowledge

Monday, October 30th, 2006

A couple of weeks ago, I gave a presentation about LibriVox at BarCamp Montreal (BarCamp is an “unconference” … more info: here). I titled the talk: “open source methods in non-software projects,” and here is a pic:Hugh Pontificating.
The following week I met with BarCamp sponsor and local dot-com success (yes, dot-com, from the old days), [...]

Weekly Picks: The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Read by Barbara Bear and Mama Bear.
You haven’t fully experienced the diversity of LibriVox until you have listened to some of the recordings by our younger readers. This recording is a duet by mother and daughter reading one of the classic children’s stories. These two readers bring the book to life together.
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Librivox Community Podcast – 26th October 2006

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

The latest issue of the Community Podcast is now available featuring Euterpe Archipelago and their fascinating musical compositions which integrate Librivox readings. Euterpe Archipelago have more recordings available through this link

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No TBOL3 this week but we have a fine replacement in Henry.
Listen to Librivox Community Podcast #7 hosted by Jim Mowatt. [...]

LibriVox celebrates UN Day

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

LibriVox is a cross-cultural, multi-lingual, geographically dispersed project; you could almost call us the United Nations of volunteer-based free public domain audio literature projects. So in order to celebrate United Nations Day (Oct 24), we just released the:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Read in 21 languages including Korean, Afrikaans, and Waloon.
And Boing Boing likes it!

Librivox Community Podcast 19th October

Monday, October 16th, 2006

The latest Librivox podcast is now available. Ductapeguy is, once again your host for the show.
It’s all his fault this week.
Listen to Librivox Community Podcast #6 hosted by Sean McGaughey.

LibriVox Community Podcast – Serving the Librivox community since 2006
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Montreal Gazette on LibriVox

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

After more than a year of LibriVoxing and articles in lots of fancy newspapers in other countries, and interviews and stories on many radio stations, my hometown newspaper decided to do a story on LibriVox! Unfortunately, the Gazette decided not to put the article online, but the writer put it up on his own site. [...]

Weekly Picks: Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Read by Denny Sayers.
Denny’s reading of “Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children” is a great introduction to some of our children’s literature at LibriVox. He does a great job drawing the listener into the story. This classic story has been adapted for children and Denny’s love of children comes through in how he tells the [...]

October 12th – Librivox Community Podcast

Monday, October 9th, 2006

The latest issue of the Librivox Community Podcast is now available. This issue features Ductapeguy as your host and an interview with Starlite.
Listen to Librivox Community Podcast #5 hosted by Sean McGaughey.

LibriVox Community Podcast – Serving the Librivox community since 2006
To subscribe to this podcast use this FeedBurner link http://feeds.feedburner.com/LibrivoxCommunityPodcast
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LibriVox listed on Gutenberg pages

Friday, October 6th, 2006

A wonderful new development: LibriVox recordings are starting to be added to Project Gutenberg’s catalog pages. It’s just getting started, and kinks are getting worked out of the process, but here is the official first gutenberg catalog page, with LibriVox audio, provided in many different fomats, including speex!
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. [...]