Archive for May, 2011

All back to “normal”

Monday, May 30th, 2011

In the fall-out of the LibriVox forum hack, we’ve battened down security. Part of that process broke our catalog and a few other things.
All should be working now.
Thanks especially to:
* Dan for dealing with the forum issues
* Chris for dealing with the catalog issues
* Kara and Elli for dealing with the flood of worried [...]

LibriVox Forum Hacked

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Hello everyone,
Last night the LibriVox forum got hacked. Below I’ll share the latest.
What happened?
Someone managed to get access to a “superadmin” account belonging to one of the MC/admins, meaning they could access the backend of our Forum software. The hack doesn’t appear to be a technical security hole, but rather the bad guys were able [...]

Three years of LibriVox

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Yesterday LibriVox reached another milestone: now we have 3 years of recorded material in our catalog. To be exact: with the cataloging of ‘The Black Star’ we have 3 years, 0 days, 0 hours, 45 minutes and 26 seconds of audio books on our servers.
The honour of reaching the big three went to ‘The Black [...]

Interview with Steve Hargadon about LibriVox

Sunday, May 15th, 2011

Here’s an hour-long discussion, with interaction from the audience, about LibriVox, with me & Steve Hargadon, for his Future of Education series.
Audio: http://audio.edtechlive.com/foe/hughmcguire.mp3

Interview on Publishing Talks

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

David Wilk invited me to his Publishing Talks Podcast, to about LibriVox, iambik, libraries, PressBooks, and general future of publishing stuff.
Here is the link.
And here is the audio [mp3].