Great article in the Toronto Globe & Mail, Radio Blogs Get Great Reception, Wed Mar 23 — Podcasting is the latest boradcast technology storming the Internet and it’s sparking a radio renaisannce. Since the link probably will only last a few days, here’s a couple of highlights:
* podcasting is like TIVO for your iPod
* receive new shows without having to revisit the publishing site — like home delivery of your favorite newspaper
* allows subscribers to customize their content by picking and choosing from directory menus or keyword searches
* podcasting has snowballed after the release of software in Aug 04 when there were 20 podcasts — today there are 2,000 and 30 are produced in Canada
* all you need to produce a podcast is a computer, a plug-in-microphone, free software and a fast Internet connection
And now I’m part of a podcast about Computers in Libraries held in DC last week. Eighteen minutes, no commercials! Great job, Greg Schwartz!
This morning it was announced to the SLA Board of Directors, that former President Bill Clinton recently agreed to be a general session speaker for the SLA Annual Meeting in Toronto. He will speak on Wednesday morning , from 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Fantastic! See you there.
Hot news!
SLA is looking at blogging their annual conference in Toronto, June 5-8.
If you are planning to attend the conference and blog the event, please let me know!
jane@dysartjones.com
As I reflect on Clifford Lynch’s talk at Computers in Libraries 2005 about the digital decades from the 80s to the present and beyond, I am struck by how many things I have seen in the past that are just now playing a role in the present and into the future.
Voice Over Internet Protocol is one of them. I first saw this technology about 10 years ago at an Internet World conference. I even remember one of the British exhibitors selling this technology was showing it off by having an old style English phone booth on display. I thought VOIP would be such a hot technology. And I think it has been, but individual consumers are just now using it on their computers to talk to their friends, relatives and colleagues for free over the internet on through iChat on Mac computers and Skype, and others I am sure.
Just goes to show you that I forgot about the early adoption cycle which proves that new technologes take time to be adopted by the general population.
Megan Fox, Web & Electronic Resources Librarian, Simmons College gave a wonderful presentation, Building Communities in the Palm of Your Hand. She talked about how libraries can have syncing stations for PDA users and how beaming builds communities. She has hundreds of examples on her web site.
I found the stats she mentioned about cell phone usage in college and university students very interesting — in 2000 30% of students had cell phones while in 2004 the number was 90%. And then there’s the Duke experiment with supplying freshman with iPods. We’ll hear more about that at Internet Librarian 2005 in the fall I believe.
Megan showed so many new mobile technologies that my head was spinning.
She also presented a great guide for finding content and searching on PDAs. Thanks for the wonderful information! I could see lots of CIL attendees appreciated your info too as they were practising beaming and searching with their PDAs!
Tara Calishain, Author, Web Search Garage, & Editor, Research Buzz:
If you don’t know how to do something, take a nerd to lunch!
If I could invest in a human being, it would be Michael Fagan!
Gary Price, ResourceShelf.com
from one of his students, “If Google was a man, she’d run off and marry him because he gives her more than she needs!”
from Carol Penne, Senior Librarian, International Monetary Fund and Zachary Wahl, Program Manager, Project Performance Corporation at Computers in Libraries 2005.
1. Lack of end user communications
2. Competing interests
3. Too loose/too tight governance
4. Lack of mandate
5. Unclear scope
I’m certainly brimming with ideas for future conferences and events. How about you? If so, send them along as we plan for:
Internet Librarian 2005, Monterey CA, Oct. 24-6
C2: Connect & Collaborate!, NY, Sept 27-28
KMWorld & Intranets 2005, San Jose, Nov 15-17
Computers in Libraries 2006, Washington DC, Mar 22-24
