Archive for August, 2010

LibriVox in AT&T commercial

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

The cover art to LibriVox’s recording of Moby Dick is currently featuring in an ad campaign by the US telecoms company AT&T.
You can see the ad by clicking here. It was directed by Dennis Liu for the ad agancy BBDO.
You can see the shot of the cover art, created by regular LV sleeve contributor Kate [...]

LibriVox Community Podcast #114

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #114 hosted by Lucy Perry.

Duration: 1hr 47min
With contributions from hugh, kayray, Algy Pug, Availle, RuthieG, Rowland, ExEmGe, HokusPokus, neerajanagarajan, neckertb, Nicholas19, gloriana, Cori, tis, Gesine, annise, Jonathan Awesome, KathrynD, rf, Great Plains, Starlite, aradlaw, TriciaG, russiandoll, wdcallahan and Claire — along with a host of other LibriVox Voices. Sound [...]

LibriVox Turns Five

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

On August 10, 2005 I put up a website, called it LibriVox, and posted the following:
LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting?
LibriVox is an open source audio-literary attempt to harness the power of [...]

LibriVox Community Podcast #113

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Listen to LibriVox Community Podcast #113 with Gesine.

Duration: 25:04
In Community Podcast 113, Gesine explains the ins and outs of the new ‘Thank a reader’ feature on the LibriVox website. Clicking on the link in the right-hand sidebar, listeners can send their thanks to a designated email address, and an admin posts the messages in a [...]