Thursday, June 5, 2008

#14 Podcasting: something for everyone



This assignment was sorta fun and not too hard.

I did my personal interest first and chose to listen to Bill Maher's latest broadcast. It was an hour of enjoyment. I'm not really sure if he qualifies for this assignment, but I chose him anyway.

I then looked for library podcasts. The first one I listened to was (there was also a video feed) was Trish Hull of Salt Lake County Library. She appears on a podcast with brief reviews of books that are called Reader's Choice. The listeners then leave brief reviews of these books at a website. She reviewed a book I plan to put on hold called "Camel Bookmobile" which is about library service in Africa and some of the challenges that are faced. It's fiction, but based on fact.

My second library podcast was "Library Geeks" about "Liblime and Koha Open Software". All I can say is geek is the word. I stopped listening after about 45 minutes. I guess we need people doing this, but it's not me.

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