February, 2007

Librivox Community Podcast 25

Posted on February 27, 2007 by | Posted in Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: 1 Comment on Librivox Community Podcast 25

Librivox Community Podcast show 25 is now available from Archive.org or via your podcatchers.
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March 01 Librivox Podcast Shownotes
Running Time: 21:24
librivox_community_podcast_25.mp3 Size 19.6 mb





  1. Intro– Podcamp
    Toronto 2007


  2. Romeo and Juliet Promo


  3. Interview with Hugh


  4. Underwear Song as requested by
    Hugh- Sean McGaughey- http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/600


    Recorded at C’est
    What
    in Toronto, February 24, 2007.


  5. Interview with Linda Mills from
    Podcast User Magazine


  6. Closing Remarks


  7. “To Be an Angel” by Uncle
    Seth
    Recorded at
    C’est What in Toronto, February
    24, 2007.




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Librivox Community Podcast 24

Posted on February 22, 2007 by | Posted in Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: 2 Comments on Librivox Community Podcast 24

Librivox Community Podcast show 24 is now available from Archive.org or via your podcatchers.
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February 22 Librivox Podcast Shownotes
Running Time: 15:16
librivox_community_podcast_24.mp3 Size 13.9 mb

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Host : Jim Mowatt

Short Blooper Mix
UK Gathering – Macaroons
TBOL3
UK Gathering – Anonymous Love Letters
Featured Voice – Justin Brett
Itunes Plea
Cori celebrates Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 200th birthday.
UK Gathering – David shows us the way to Gretna Green
Cori is amused by Nesbit’s desperate search for a rhyme.
The Slow Witted Husband.

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talking history & librivox

Posted on February 17, 2007 by | Posted in News, on the web | Comments: 4 Comments on talking history & librivox

Talking History is a radio show with a great mandate:

Our weekly broadcast/internet radio program, Talking History, begun in 1996, focuses on all aspects of history: how we recall it, how we preserve it, how we interpret it, how we transform it into myth, and how we pass it on—as teachers, researchers, archivists, museum curators, and documentarians. The radio show is aimed at a non-professional audience, and is dedicated to bridging the gap between the history profession and a history-hungry public unaccustomed to the hair-splitting that many scholars are all-too-ready to engage in.

They’ve started linking to LibriVox audio for various shows (Not sure if they are broadcasting our audio too? Hope so), including some Thoreau (mp3), and Nietzsche (mp3) (read by yours truly).

When people have asked me “who will listen to LibriVox books,” I’ve always been a little uncomfortable about my response. I see our job as building a complete library of all public domain books in audio. Who listens, how, why and in what context is something for the future to determine. Will it be knitters? Commuters? The vision impaired? Cramming students? Ipod junkies? Zune fanatics? Will musicians use our audio? All of the above of course, and more.

Projects like Talking History demonstrate the value of having a public doman library like LibriVox. Who knows how our audio will be used in the next few weeks, next few months, next decades. The audio library is there for the world, and I am confident the world is a better place for its existence. That’s enough, and I don’t lose much sleep over figuring out our market.

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NEA on LibriVox

Posted on February 15, 2007 by | Posted in News, on the web | Comments: Comments Off on NEA on LibriVox

I think this has been around for a while, but our very own Cloudmountain reminds us in the forum of the nice words about LibriVox on the web site of the National Education Association:

LibriVox provides free audiobooks online …

Would you like to volunteer? LibriVox is looking for volunteers to read, listen, edit, suggest books, and work on their data base.

Maybe you’d like to see how many books are currently available. Or listen to a book.

[link]

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