A new report from Pew Internet & American Life Project on podcasting: http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/193/source/rss/report_display.asp Some 12% of internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they can listen to it or view it at a later time. However, few internet users are downloading podcasts with great frequency; just 1% report downloading a podcast on a typical day. Hmmmm… I download a few podcasts and burn CDs for my drives back and forth to Illinois. My use has increased this year as I find the podcasts that engage me. Look at the PDF of the report to see the small upswing […]
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From Allison, who does such cool stuff at KPL: The Kankakee Public Library has been featured in the June 11 OP-ED page of the New York Times. Pulitzer Prize Nominated author, and Kankakee booster, Luis Alberto Urrea was asked to write several opinion pieces for the Times. One topic he chose was the Kankakee success story. Urrea writes, “Kankakee is pulling itself back from the brink. And it all started with the library.” “Our cities are scrambling to find fresh paradigms for a new America. Maybe, just maybe, the Midwesterners, librarians, and Mexicans of Kankakee, Illinois, have found theirs.” Listen […]
http://wplinfostuff.blogspot.com/2006/03/podcasting-is-coming-to-waterloo.html The podcasts will digitize heritage walking tours throughout Uptown Waterloo, using MP3 players and Blackberry devices that will be available for loan from the Main Library on Albert Street. The tours will also be available on-line through computer workstations located in the library. Podcasting is a method of publishing audio and video programs via the Internet. It allows users subscribe to a “feed” of new files for continuous updates.
Allison writes: I love that you blogged the iTunes podcasts. We just added my library a couple of days ago and are so jazzed about podcasting. We’ve gotten permission from authors who are coming to KPL this spring to podcast their programs *and* I just emailed an author today (Sue Monk Kidd) and she’s agreed to have a phone interview with me and is allowing us to podcast it. So many possibilities! Allison Beasley Head of Adult Services Kankakee Public Library Kankakee, IL Thanks Allison! Take a look at their podcast pages and give the Sue Monk Kidd interview a […]
This is so nice to see the varied content available in iTunes under the search term “library.” Give it a try, and make sure your library’s podcast is there as well!
I’ve spent the last 90 minutes or so exploring iLife ’06 from Apple. It’s new this week and boasts loads of features. iPhoto runs smoother, the apps are even more integrated but the most intriguing pieces are iWeb and the Podcast Studio of Garageband. Here’s a flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/72057594047315870/ I was able to record a podcast in about 25 minutes and mix it down for iWeb to post at my .mac account. You can see the podcast blog and hear the podcast here: http://web.mac.com/mstephens7/iWeb/TTW.Mac/TTWPodcasts/TTWPodcasts.html There is a learning curve for Garageband but it’s not bad at all once you get […]
The Podcasting Group created a handout that rocked! Take a look at it here.
Last week I spoke about L2 with Thomas Brevik in Norway who writes the Bibliotek 2.0 blog. Listen to the podcast! http://bibliotek2null.blogspot.com/2005/12/bibliotek-2.html “Library 2.0 is the idea that libraries and librarians need to anticipate what the future needs of users are going to be and for them to plan for collaboration and methods of communication with each other and users using all of the social software we keep reading about….” “We need to go deep within ourselves and decide that yes we can handle constant change…”
http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000157071472/ Yup…Podcast is the word of the year. Some questions then: Are you offering the technology for users to record their own podcasts at your library? Have you pondered what services might be enhanced with periodic podcasts? Will librarians play a role in the organization and dissemination of what potentially could be thousands and thousands of hours of audio content? (and video soon) Just askin’
Ken finds a podcast at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley Web site. http://www.mchron.net/site/edublog.php?id=P3282 ” On a hunch I searched for the RSS feed of the web site of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and I found a very professional, welcoming, and informative single podcast (linked here) from the admissions office about how they consider applications to the MBA program. You can see the impulse — the admissions office must have had to answer questions about how they screen applicants hundreds of time each season, so this podcast might save them time repeating this information. […]