Archive for the 'on the web' Category
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Tomorrow, LibriVox.org will go dark (though the forums will remain up). Instead of our regular pages and catalog, you’ll see the following:
Today, many websites around the Internet have “gone dark” to protest against, and raise awareness about some very important proposed legislation in the United States, which could fundamentally alter how the Internet operates: [...]
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
LibriVox itself doesn’t produce any apps for the iphone, but we have an open catalog platform and all our books are free, so many others have built iPhone and Android apps for LibriVox.
Below you’ll find a collection of some of the iphone apps running off the LibriVox catalog (if you know of other good [...]
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
From 08:40 GMT July 5th: Regrettably, it appears that the secure server where the forum lives is currently down again.
We will get it functioning again as soon as possible, and apologise for the inconvenience.
The catalogue server and downloads are unaffected.
EDITED TO ADD: Apologies for the latest outage, which was caused by a problem related [...]
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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
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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].
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Sunday, October 10th, 2010
There’s an interview with me up at the Open Knowledge Foundation blog about LibriVox and the Public Domain.
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Sunday, October 10th, 2010
Says Chapterme.com:
This site is meant to help you discover books and authors by listening to random chapters. Then, your tastes will be compared with those of other listeners in order to choose other chapters.
The recordings are created by the fabulous LibriVox.org site. At any time you can go to the book page on LibriVox.org and [...]
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Monday, September 13th, 2010
Hot off the press: Jesse and Scott of SFF Audio invited me onto their podcast for a chat. We talk about audiobooks, LibriVox, open collaborative projects, the web and various other things. Here is the link:
http://www.sffaudio.com/?p=23539
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
There was some LibriVoxiness on Australian Radio recently … the “Final Draft” show on Radio 2SER FM, Sydney. It’s up on the web:
This week, we’re stepping outside the confines of the printed page and devoting our entire show to the phenomenon of audiobooks. First, we speak to Hugh McGuire, the founder of Librivox, a volunteer-run website [...]
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
There is an interview up over at BookList’s Audiobooker Blog, with Mary Burkey:
The home of 2,557 audiobooks in 26 languages – all FREE. Hugh McGuire launched the volunteer-effort audiobook publishing model LibriVox on August 10th, 2005. Hugh is this week’s Inside the Audiobook Studio guest, ready to share the background on this amazing project. Want [...]
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