Archive for the 'on the web' Category

Jon Udell on LibriVox & the noosphere

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Jon Udell recently gave a talk called Hacking the Noosphere. For those interested in the intersection of technology and society, there’s lots of good stuff in there, and if you scroll down, an interesting take on LirbiVox:

Another example, one that happens to be Montreal-based, is LibriVox, the collaborative project to make […]

LibriVox Recommendations

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

We occasionally get people asking for recommendations. MetaFilter has a thread collecting some good ones:
LibriVox Recommendations from MetaFilter.

first LV youtube vid? shopenhauer…

Monday, November 26th, 2007

As far as I know, this is the first youtube vid using LibriVox audio. This is DE. Wittkower reading Schopenhauer’s Studies in Pessimism. Music is Richard Wagner’s Rheingold. I’m not sure the providence of the images.

LibriVox Invades iTunes

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

LibriVox recordings have been available on iTunes for more
than a year, but recently more and more LibriVox recordings
and LV readers have begun to appearing in iTunes podcasts.
Currently there are 21 LibriVox-centered podcasts regularly
featured in the iTunes Store. Take a peek!
Link: Screen view of all things LibriVox on iTunes
Visit the iTunes Store to access the […]

librivox & nanowrimo

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

LibriVox is doing another national novel writing month (nanowrimo) novel … why not sign up for a chapter here.
background:
During the month of November 2007, LibriVox volunteers write the serial novel The Yellow Sheet together, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month. Each volunteer writes one or more chapter (we do one chapter […]

LibriVox Twittering

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

For those who like updates about LibriVox new releases, and would like them in their twitter account, you can find us here: http://twitter.com/librivox

LibriVox at SXSW?

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Every year there is a big digital/social/web etc conference in austin called south by south west interactive.
I have proposed a LibriVox talk, based on the presentation will I did at Podcasters Across Borders (slides and audio + transcript )
I think panel selections get made by votes from interested people like you. so… it’d be appreciated […]

Audio of Hugh McGuire’s Presentation at Podcasters Across Borders

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Audio of Hugh McGuire’s presentation, How Podcasting Will Save the World , at Podcasters Across Borders is now available on the Canadian Podcast Buffet site.
The slides for the presentation can be found here (I’ll try to stick them together eventually).

Mark Blevis said a written transcript will be available in a couple of days.

annie’s librivox flash promo

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

hmm… did we ever post a link to Annie’s great librivox flash promo she did for a course? it’s very nice, see it here.

How LibriVox helps save the world

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

This presentation is not actually about podcasting, or LibriVox, it’s about data…but it was presented at podcastersacrossborders, and LibriVox is the inspiration for these thoughts.