Forgotten Classics on LibriVox
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007We’re the Featured Podcast in Episode 3 of Forgotten Classics Podcast. And there’s a mention of Miette in there too, so it’s gotta be good.
We’re the Featured Podcast in Episode 3 of Forgotten Classics Podcast. And there’s a mention of Miette in there too, so it’s gotta be good.
At some point I did this interview with someone or other, but I honestly can’t remember when or where. I think it must have been Matt, at Podcamp Toronto. But in any case, here is a quick LibriVox interview on the CitizenSHIFT podcast (a project of the NFB).
Two of our favourite people, Project Gutenberg’s, Michael Hart and Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle, join Stanford’s Michael Keller on Ira Flatow’s NPR show, Science Friday for a great discussion of digital libraries.
Project Gutenberg is where we get most of our source texts, and Internet Archive hosts our audio files.
[mp3 link]
The Gadget Lab blog at Wired has an article on loosening DRM with ebooks, and audiobooks. LibriVox plugged, and a mention of this interesting article about “audio books getting new respect from publishers,” to which we say: told you so.
I’ve always been a big fan of Jon Udell’s stuff - he writes not just about tech things that interest me, but he’s also got a great sense that web technology ought to be good for society as well. Jon was one of the first “famous” people I contacted when I started LibriVox, and […]
I did a podcast interview with Jon Udell about LibriVox, for ITConversations (I’ll let you know when it’s available). Was a great talk, and part of our discussions were about the still-significant barriers to accessing good audio on the net. There is great stuff out there, but for many not-so-net-savvy people there exist many problems […]
Touch, Listen (2007)
Dennis Yuen & Morry Galonoy
Bookcloths, Davey board, decorative paper, linen threads, ink, long-stitch binding, voice XML, PHP, syndication from [b]LibriVox’s [/b]public domain podcast stream of audio poetry
Books are meant to be touched.
Poetry is […]
Nice interview with Donna Papacosta, communications guru, on the Trafcom Podcast. I met Donna briefly in Toronto at Podcamp, but this was the first time we got the chance to really talk.
It’s a wide-ranging talk about LibriVox and some other things.
Here is the: mp3 link.
Yes, you can listen on your playstation. Heres what they have to say:
Audio books and dramas have undergone a revolution in the last few years. The arrival of media devices, like PSP, has created an ever expanding audience hungry for entertainment. Meeting this ever growing appetite are hundreds of websites, offering audio content from upcoming […]
These guys look likem kindred spirits:
New Assignment.Net is a non-profit site that tries to spark innovation in journalism by showing that open collaboration over the Internet among reporters, editors and large groups of users can produce high-quality work that serves the public interest, holds up under scrutiny, and builds trust.
And here is one of their […]