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CitizenSHIFT on LibriVox

Posted on May 23, 2007 by | Posted in News, on the web | Comments: Comments Off on CitizenSHIFT on LibriVox

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).

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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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