http://www.veoh.com/ I got a note in my Mac feeds this morning about Veoh. Veoh Networks today made available more than 3,000 videos for download and transfer to Apple’s latest iPod. Veoh allows anyone with a computer and an Internet connection to broadcast their own TV show, or channel of shows, in full-screen television quality. Individuals and companies are broadcasting compelling content — from original cartoons, like Superman and Popeye, to comedies like The Three Stooges, feature-length films, and more than 10,000 user-produced videos. 10,000 user-produced videos! This is coming on fast, dear readers. Are we ready for the users that […]
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http://daweed.blogspot.com/2005/11/music-access-and-libraries-still-long.html David King outlines what he’d like from music providers for libraries: digital music for library patrons ability to listen in the library ability to listen at home, using the library’s authentication ability to download to a portable device We need all this to be an annual library system subscription, rather than a normal, individual subscription Excellent list. I’m glad he started this conversation and it’s intriguing the Rhapsody rep “stated that they “probably haven’t considered” that type of model.” I’d be interested in what the other providers (especially Apple’s iTunes) have to say about this model. It’s nice to […]
Here’s a clearinghouse entry of a couple of articles you may want to add to your reading pile: Heard people banter about AJAX and how a lot of Web 2.0 apps are using it? A great post by Jesse James Garrett is here: http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php And what of Folksonomies and Metadata? Checkout “Metadata for the Masses” by Peter Merholz at http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000361.php Pondering the future of the Audio/Visual department? http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/start.html?pg=2
Finally – after months of reading, pondering, creating the actual survey in Zope, passing the Institutional Review Board application process, some anxious e-mails to my advisor Dr. Brian O’Connor at UNT and some wide-eyed and awake nights thinking, here is my preliminary research project survey! Please, if you are an MLS, in library school, or working at a library and blogging, take the survey! I know there have been other surveys and investigations of the Biblioblogosphere but please consider contributing to this one as well. It will lay the foundation for my further research — and — gasp! — dissertation! […]
Please read jenny’s excellent post at ALA TechSource! Texting with Jenny from the UK, I said I just wanted to post a big “DITTO” next to this post. “All very interesting, but it worries me all the more when all of this is sold directly to the consumer and bypasses libraries. It’s times like this I re-light a candle that Audible will wake up from its coma and bridge the Digital Rights Management (DRM) gap between libraries and iPods. Right now, I believe OverDrive is the only company that lets libraries circulate copyright-protected videos, but of course Overdrive’s Windows-Media-encrypted files […]
“In many ways, I do view portable media players as a technology in search of a market,” said Van Baker, an analyst at industry research firm Gartner. “If I’m carrying music with me, chances are I want to carry something that’s a little smaller than a personal music player.” Informative piece on the next wave of media devices. It hints that Apple may be prepping a video iPod as well as highlighting the fact that we have all kinds of technology coming at us and folks are still trying to figure out what to do with it.
Take a look at this tech piece at USAToday: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-08-03-yahoo-music-search_x.htm?csp=34 Then take a look at the search page here: http://audio.search.yahoo.com/ I was able to locate some tracks I didn’t know were available – at Rhapsody, where I think I need to get a membership…! I also found some Fleetwood Mac tracks stored on a server for download… It looks as though this is a free for all: music services, podcasts, MP3 sharing sites. Let the debate and discussion begin!
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/start.html?pg=2 Nice article at WIRED that validates the thinking going on right now about CDs and DVDs. What will our Audio Visual areas look like in the next 5-7 years when we are hurtling toward streaming versions of high-def movies and episodes of “Entourage?” How will we participate in what becomes a transcation between users at home and the vast network of content and community out there? Eventually, someone will build the sophisticated business plan and technology that will make getting hi-def movies online even easier. The possibilities are myriad. Users, for example, could log onto Amazon, shop for movies, […]
http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=8155 “OverDrive, a provider of download audio books and ebooks for libraries, has announced the addition of Video on Demand services and materials to its Digital Library Reserve network. With the new VoD service library patrons will be able to access digital video from anywhere in the world via an Internet connected PC.” I’ll say just this for now: “Music & Video…like water…raining down…”
On the way back from Indy Friday, I finished up the David Allen book David King suggested. It was incredible! Then I switched the iPod over to The Future of Music : Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution by Dave Kusek, Gerd Leonhard. I only made it through the first hour or so but let me recommend this title to all librarians who want a glimpse of what the future of music and content dlelivery might be! The more I think about it, the more I discuss it with my colleague Joe Sipocz (who gets stuff like this) and the […]