Archive for May, 2008

Librivox Community Podcast #81

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #81 - 31st May 2008
Duration 20:57
Your host this week is Cori Samuel.
The Astonishing Statistics of May! Featuring valiant attempts to hit a fast-moving target by ductapeguy.
An interview by Andy Minter, with gloriana.
Music: From Sousa’s Band, Hippodrome March and Trombone Sneeze.
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One-five-oh-oh

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

LibriVox catalog just reached 1,500 items, the lucky audiobook, Four Great Americans, by James Baldwin wins two free tickets to the next LibriVox reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses!
This was the 96th book published this month, and we are pretty close to getting a 100-book month, smashing our previous record of 77 books set in […]

Librivox Community Podcast #80

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #80 - 23rd May 2008

Duration 15:46
Your host this week is Cori Samuel.
The Greenwich Tunnel Kru: russiandoll, earthcalling, AGSec, hugh, carlmanchester and Cori.
Version of this week’s Weekly poetry by icyjumbo (thanks again for the tip, Kristin!)
Greener Than You Think - the story behind one of our latest […]

Stockholm Challenge

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Having fun in Stockholm, at the Stockholm Challenge.

blogdesk: LibriVox & ebay

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Our friends at SFF Audio have a nice summary of a discussion that comes up once in a while, ebayers selling LibriVox recordings:
I really like the attitude of the people over on LibriVox.org. In one thread on the LibriVox forums a first time poster makes note that ‘LibriVox titles are being sold on eBay for […]

LibriVox & the Stockholm Challenge

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

LibriVox is a finalist in the Stockholm Challenge, an award & conference put on by the City of Stockholm, which:
…features a six category Award for ICT for Development projects. ICT stands for Information and Communication Technologies and the best projects will win the prestigious Stockholm Challenge trophies and receive a 5.000 Euro stipend… An extended […]

blogdesk: nice comment

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Every once in a while someone writes a really nice blog comment about LibriVox. This is one:
In tangential news, we’ve upped production approximately 6000% in the past couple weeks, with a couple neat discoveries.
First of all, http://librivox.org is a free source for public domain recordings of public domain books. Now, I don’t know about y’all, […]

PDsounds - Challenge

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

WHAT IS IT? pdsounds is like LibriVox for audio-other-than-text. Go there to find recordings of babies sneezing, cats purring and fireworks exploding. It’s all dedicated to the public domain, and therefore is available for people to use in all sorts of ways. Sounds from there make regular appearances in my LibriVox Community Podcasts, for example!
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008

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