May, 2007

Librivox Community Podcast 36

Posted on May 17, 2007 by | Posted in Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: Comments Off on Librivox Community Podcast 36

Show 36 is now available from Archive.org
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Length: 24:33
Size: 22.4MB

Host: Jim Mowatt
1. Trioptimum and the large emperor.
2. Cloud Mountain, Tanzaku and the voice processor Behringer.
3. Gesine interrupts the nerdy stuff with a promo for Casanova.
4. Cori reads the improve your recording page from the Wiki.
5. Jim tells us what’s coming up in podcasts i.e. tribute to proof readers, book co-ordinators and meta co-ordinators.

Listen here: [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/librivox_community/librivox_community_podcast_36.mp3]

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digital libraries on NPR

Posted on May 14, 2007 by | Posted in News, on the web | Comments: Comments Off on digital libraries on NPR

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]

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wired on audiobooks

Posted on May 7, 2007 by | Posted in about LibriVox, in the press, on the web | Comments: Comments Off on wired on audiobooks

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.

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Librivox Community Podcast 35

Posted on May 6, 2007 by | Posted in Librivox Community Podcast, News | Comments: 1 Comment on Librivox Community Podcast 35

This weekend we held a Librivox Worldwide Gathering at various locations around the world. Esther aka starlite, came to Sean aka ductapeguy’s house and we spent the day recording audio, and talking with librivox volunteers around the world. At the end of the afternoon, we recorded this week’s Librivox Community Podcast with Catharine who lives in the San Fransisco area.

Show 35 is now available at the Archive.org page for the LV community podcast or from your podcatchers.
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The direct link to the show is here.

Host: Sean McGaughey, Catharine Eastman, and Esther Lockwood
Length: 28:00
Size: 26mb

1. Welcome to the Librivox Worldwide Gathering by Sean
2. Worldwide Recitation of the Librivox Disclaimer.
3. Greetings by Shurtagal (California), Betsie, Julian and Kirstin (Chicago), Esther and Sean (Ontario), Catharine (California) and Lucy (Australia). We also spoke with David Barnes, and Chris Hughes in Great Britain, but failed to record greetings from them.
4. Catharine, Sean and Esther had did a lengthy survey of the Childrens Literature available on Librivox. Any of the works mentioned can be found on the Librivox Catalogue by clicking on More Search Options and doing a Genre Search for children.
Here is the search page we used.
5. Sarah came to give us a child’s eye view and told us about her favorite pocast, The Radio Aventures of Doctor Floyd which can be found at http://doctorfloyd.com/ . She can also be heard singing and playing in the background throughout the podcast.
6. Catharine’s cats also make a cameo appearance.
7. The show ends with an impromptu singing of the Librivox Theme, followed by a father-daughter recitation of the disclaimer by Sean and Sarah.

Enjoy

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