Archive for the ‘Webcasts and Podcasts’ Category
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Last week we posted a couple of items about the 2009 National Book Festival and how you could enjoy its many activities in person (over 130,000 people attended), on the web (including Twitter), or via C-SPAN.
Today, webcasts of a few of the many author sessions are beginning to come online with more to follow in coming days.
Here are Links to the Webcasts That are Accessible as of Today:
Sessions with:
+ John Grisham
+ Doug Brinkley
+ Michael Connelly
+ Kirsten Downey
+ The “Exquisite Corpse” team
(several children’s authors including Jon Scieszka)
+ Julia Glass
+ Liz Kessler
+ Mark Kurlansky
+ Valerie Martinez
+ Katherine Neville
+ James Patterson
+ James Swanson
More video webcasts are being posted daily.
Check back if the author(s) you want to see are not available. Here’s a list of all of the authors who took part in the festival. Click on an author name and look for a webcast link on the page.
Source: LC
See Also: Prior to the National Book Festival, Matt Raymond Interviewed Several Authors, You Can Listen to those Podcasts Here.
See Also: To Review/Search All Webcasts from National Book Festivals Back to 2001, Visit this Page. More Than 500 Webcasts are Currently Available.
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
The following videos were recorded at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference. They’re hosted on blip.tv.
From the Blog Post:
1) “My, those novels certainly are… graphic!”
One of the most popular intellectual freedom programs in years, this panel discussion was sponsored by the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee, Association of American Publishers, and Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Speakers: Neil Gaiman, Terry Moore, and Craig Thompson. Moderated by Charles Brownstein of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
2) “Privacy in an Era of Change”
An engrossing conversation about the status of privacy under the new administration. Cosponsored by the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee and the ALA Washington Office. Speakers: Mary Ellen Callahan, Chief Privacy Officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; David Sobel, Senior Counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation; and Craig Wacker, program officer for the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media & Learning initiative.
3) “Libraries, Librarians, and America’s War on Sex”
Sex ed advocate Marty Klein discusses the importance of having sexual information available to all library users. Sponsored by the Intellectual Freedom Round Table.
4) “Intellectual Freedom on the Front Lines”
Librarians and library supporters from West Bend, Wisconsin share their perspective on the protracted censorship challenges going on in their community at this issues briefing session, sponsored by the Intellectual Freedom Committee and the Freedom to Read Foundation.
Source: OIF Blog
See Also: Banned Books Week Begins this Saturday. ResourceShelf has assembled and continues to update a growing compilation of web-based resources. You can find the compilation here.
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
From the Text:
The Library of Congress has a mission that is very similar to several Federal agencies…they are preserving huge amounts of records. And like Federal agencies, they are looking at new technologies to meet that mission. One way they’re doing that is through a pilot project with DuraSpace, that will store some records in the cloud. Bill LeFurgy is the Digital initiative project coordinator at the Library of Congress, and he told me how the pilot project will work.
Listen Online or Download (mp3) the Audio of the Interview. It runs about 14 minutes.
Source: Federal News Radio
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
From the Summary:
At ALA Annual 2009, Amy Rudersdorf, the Director of the Digital Information Management Program at the State Library of North Carolina, spoke about integrating a whole host of tools and systems into a digital curation workflow.
Many of the tools are fully integrated into the State Library staff’s daily workflow and include the CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software, the OCLC Digital Archive, OCLC’s Connexion cataloging service and the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway, among others.
The video recording, which is now available for online viewing, also includes a 15-minute introduction to OCLC’s Digital Collection Services by Geri Bunker Ingram, OCLC Digital Collection Services Manager.
Source: OCLC
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
From the Announcement:
Booklist is launching a free webinar series on Sept. 22, building on previous popular Booklist Online webinars.
The first in the new series, “The Scoop on Series Nonfiction: Best Uses, Best Practices, and Best New Titles for Fall,” will be useful to anyone involved in engaging reluctant readers, promoting reading success and keeping the library relevant in this era of accountability. Booklist youth editors will moderate as four top series nonfiction publishers—Lerner Publications, ABDO Publishing Company, Norwood House Press and Cherry Lake Publishing—share their expertise and introduce a selection of their fall titles. Webinar participants will also get a sneak peek at Booklist’s Oct. 1 Series Nonfiction Spotlight, including a focus on a new trend: series nonfiction for early primary children. You can sign up here or through Booklist Online webinars page.
Source: American Library Association
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
BusinessWeek’s Jim Ellis, the Assistant Managing Editor of the magazine, provides a 4 minute 30 second video showing a selection of historical covers.
Source: BusinessWeek
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Saturday, August 29th, 2009
From the Summary:
The Wikipedia Revolution is the first narrative account of the remarkable success story of the “encyclopedia anyone can edit.” Andrew Lih, a Wikipedia editor/administrator, academic and journalist, tells how the Internet’s free culture community inspired its creation in 2001, and how legions of volunteers have emerged to create over 10 million articles in over 50 languages. The book recounts colorful behind-the-scenes stories of how obsessive map editors, automated software robots, and warring factions have come to shape a complex online community of knowledge gatherers. Learn about the historical underpinnings of Wikipedia: how a Hawaiian vacation and a fringe piece software from Apple Computer inspired the wiki concept and realized the original read-and-write capabilities of the Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web. While Wikipedia has become firmly planted at the top of Google’s search results, what are the challenges as sum of all human knowledge becomes more complete, and its problem is not growth, but reliability? Should we be putting so much trust in a resource created by anonymous nobodies?
Stream/Listen to the Webcast with Andrew Lih.
It runs about an one hour. You can also download the entire audio file (MP3) here.
Access The Wikipedia Revolution via OCLC Woldcat or Amazon.com.
The Wikipedia Revolution is also available as an audio book.
Read the Author’s Bio (Bottom of Page)
The program was recorded on April 1, 2009 in Berkeley, CA.
Source: UC Berkeley School of Information
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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
From the Announcement:
With some 300 interviews in its collection–more than 100 of which are online at http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu–the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive at the University of Michigan-Dearborn is a resource that’s useful to people around the world.
“Having interviews available online 24 hours a day, seven days a week offers unprecedented accessibility to our collection,” said Jamie Wraight, curator and historian of the Archive.
“It’s what sets us apart from other Holocaust survivor oral history projects. People can hear the personal stories of Holocaust survivors, in their own voices, no matter where in the world they are.”
[Snip]
“Other oral history collections exist but not on the Web,” [Librarian Barbara] Kriigel noted. “Kids are comfortable with technology and the Internet. That’s why we do this. We’re doing it for future generations. Someday, the survivors will be gone but this Archive will live forever.”
Access the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
Source: University of Michigan-Dearborn
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
If you were unable to view the Tavis Smiley interview of Twitter co-founder Biz Stone last night on PBS, the complete interview is now available online.
Access the Video
The interview runs nearly 17 minutes.
Source: PBS
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
Online Discourse in the Arab World: Dispelling the Myths
In an event titled ‘Online Discourse in the Arab World: Dispelling the Myths,’ the US Institute of Peace’s Center of Innovation for Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding, in collaboration with Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, presented findings from an unprecedented, comprehensive mapping of the Arabic-language blogosphere. Researchers from the Berkman Center unveiled for the first time a new report on the Arabic-language blogosphere, which applied cutting-edge social network mapping analysis to more than 35,000 blogs from 18 countries.
Source: U.S. Institute of Peace
Hat tip: TT
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
From the Summary:
As the audience for online video continues to grow, a leading edge of internet users are migrating their viewing from their computer screens to their TV screens. At the same time, more cell phone users are opting for the convenience of watching video on smaller screens via their handheld devices.
According to an April 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, the share of online adults who watch videos on video-sharing sites has nearly doubled since 2006. Fully 62% of adult internet users have watched video on these sites, up from just 33% who reported this in December 2006.
Over time, online video has also become a bigger fixture in everyday life, garnering 19% of all internet users who use video-sharing sites to watch on a typical day. In comparison, just 8% of internet users reported use of the sites on a typical day in 2006.
Access the Complete Report Available in HTML. You can also download the report as a PDF file.
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
From the Announcement:
…a complimentary webcast on Tuesday, August 4 at 10 a.m. PDT / 1 p.m. EDT with Clara Shih, author of The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff (Prentice Hall Professional). Shih will preview social networking trends that are beginning to emerge, sharing with attendees how to stay ahead of the competition by utilizing new social media strategies.
To register for this complimentary event, please visit: http://www.safaribooksonline.com/events/thefacebookera.html. All webcast attendees will receive 45 days of complimentary access to The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff, on Safari Books Online, and the first 10 people to register for and attend the event will receive an autographed copy of the book.
Source: Safari Books Online
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Webcast — Creating Your Social Media Policy
The Social Web is about communities, collaboration, peer production and user-generated content: where business reputations are defined by customer opinions and ratings, where press is delivered by independent bloggers, and product development is driven by customers. As digital natives–those who have grown up with the Internet–flood the workplace, your employees will expect to be part of the Social Web and they’ll have a lot to contribute.
How do you harness the benefits of increased employee participation and customer engagement while mitigating the risks? This webcast will review guidelines for corporations considering how to responsibly integrate social media in the workplace.
Date: Thursday, July 30 at 10am PT
Price: Free
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes
Free registration required.
Source: O’Reilly Media
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Webcast — 10 Ways to Wreck Your Database
Want to make sure your database loses data, duplicates records, and can only handle 5 transactions a minute? Want to make your application developers curse you, your sysadmin hate you, and get yourself fired without a reference? These ten database design techniques will set you on the road to downtime perdition and maintenance hell.
Date: Friday, July 10th at 10 am PT
Price: Free (registration required)
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes
Source: O’Reilly Media
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
From the Web Site:
C&RL News “Job of a Lifetime” column editor Erin Dorney talks with Brian Mathews about his work as User Experience Librarian at Georgia Tech. Mathews is now assistant university librarian for outreach and academic services at the University of California -Santa Barbara. Read more about Mathews in the June 2009 issue of C&RL News.
Direct to Interview
The program runs about 14 minutes.
Source: C&RL News
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
From an Announcement:
“Libraries have emerged as one of the go-to place for people looking for work or filing for unemployment, starting new businesses, or learning how to use computers for the first time,” said Anne-Imelda Radice, IMLS Director. “Libraries are proving just how important they are to their communities. In these episodes, library leaders share their expertise so others don’t have to reinvent the wheel.”
Libraries to the Rescue provides valuable insights from:
+ Mary Boone, State Librarian of North Carolina
+ Bernard Margolis, State Librarian of New York
+ Sheryl Mase, Michigan Library’s Director of Statewide Services
+ Jan Walsh, State Librarian of Washington, and Randall Simmons, Program Manager for Library Development in Washington
+ Kendall Wiggin, State Librarian of Connecticut
The five episodes cover a range of topics, including how libraries are increasing access to key information through virtual libraries, the importance of broadband access, and new partnerships between libraries and state and federal agencies to help citizens access all types of assistance. The Libraries to the Rescue episodes are short (12-15 minute), digestible audio episodes designed to educate IMLS’s library audience.
Direct to Podcasts and Text Transcripts
Direct to a List of Services Mentioned in the Podcasts
Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
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Sunday, June 21st, 2009
From a News Post:
HBO Archives is making complete episodes from The March of Time newsreel and documentary series, produced from 1935 to 1967, available for online viewing at its stock footage portal.
The award-winning series, produced by Time Inc., contains original footage shot in the 1930s through 1960s, with historic footage dating back to 1913. HBO Archives, launched in 2002, reintroduced The March of Time in 2007 and has been re-cataloging, restoring and transferring the original 35mm films to HD video. HBO Archives has also been developing additional The March of Time productions.
“We are thrilled to put portions of this vast, unique collection online for instant access to researchers,” said Barbara Thomas, the senior VP of HBO Sports. “Unlike the traditional news-style featurettes of the Hollywood newsreels, the long-form documentary style of The March of Time newsreels stood out from its competitors. This series is priceless for all of today’s storytellers.”
Direct to The March of Time Collection
To view online you must register (takes about 2 minutes). Viewing the online video appears to be free.
Source: WorldsSreen (via AMIA)
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Sunday, June 21st, 2009
From the AMIA Newsbrief
“Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez, ‘You may remember the FedFlix program from Public.Resource.Org. We got the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, to send a couple dozen videotapes every month. We digitized the tapes, and sent them back to the government with a DVD. No cost to .gov, and we got public domain data to post as high-res stock footage, plus great casual viewing on YouTube and the Internet Archive. The program went well for a year, the DC folks were happy, and I’m pleased to say we were able to renew the Joint Venture, but with a twist. They’re now sending a minimum of 100 tapes a month and we have rights to all 6,000 masters in their warehouse.’”
Direct to FedFlix (via Internet Archive) ||| Direct to FedFlix (YouTube)
Source: BoingBoing (via Association of Moving Images Archivists)
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
Around the World in 32 Minutes With The Geek Atlas
In this webcast, author John Graham-Cumming presents a tour of 32 places from his book, The Geek Atlas, in 32 minutes. From Jaipur to Hawaii, via Spain, Paris, London, New York and beyond, The Geek Atlas covers places that will fascinate anyone interested in science, technology or mathematics.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:00 am
Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
+ Free registration
Source: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
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