MAKE: Blog: ODEO Podcast service
“Live from Etech: Blogger.com founder Evan Williams from ODEO gave a preview of the podcast recording, hosting and publishing service. Users will be able to play audio from any page (from the source location via Macromedia Flash) use tags, subscribe, add to queues, share queues, post comments, download for iTunes, WinMedia, etc. Keep reading for more information and photos…“
Greetings from the Future of Law Libraries Symposium
We get under way in about 30 minutes. I’m going to be trying something different, making audio posts from time to time since I’m not sure if we’ll have always on net access. Click here for an audio update on the symposium. I’m using a prototype of a new CALI service called ClassCaster to do the posting. Look for new ClassCaster postings to follow along and excuse the audio quality, I’m still tuning it:)
Halo_Radio: Web-enabled MP3 Streamer
freshmeat.net: Project details for halo_radio
“halo_radio is a package for running a streaming MP3 radio station. A usable Web interface, a backend Icecast source daemon, a utility script for populating a MySQL database with your songs, and other clients are included. The Web interface features informational functions, user management features, and search and request functionality. The source daemon can encode multiple bitrates and features an automatic playlist feature that will randomly select songs based on historical user data.“
I need something like this to adopt a webcasting module for ClassCaster.
Multi-user Blogs
I was looking for info about multi-user blog packages for the ClassCaster/AsterCast stuff and found this on incorporated subversion and this on D’Arcy Norman Dot Net. Both articles have good lists and comparisons of multi-user blog systems. Most important is WordPress MU which includes Metaweblog API support and LDAP auth.
Getting Enclosures Working
A new ClassCaster post
Click here for the ClassCaster audio.
This is Elmer talking for length. It runs for 9:13. Done over POTS thru X100P card.
Podcasting Attracts Startups
The New York Times > Technology > For a Start-Up, Visions of Profit in Podcasting
“The primarily amateur Internet audio medium known as podcasting will take a small, hopeful step on Friday toward becoming the commercial Web’s next big thing.That step is planned by Odeo, a five-person start-up that is based in a walk-up apartment in this city’s Mission District and was co-founded by a Google alumnus. The company plans to introduce a Web-based system that is aimed at making a business of podcasting – the process of creating, finding, organizing and listening to digital audio files that range from living-room ramblings to BBC newscasts.“
The guys behind Odeo are Evan Williams and Noah Glass, responsible for Blogger and AudioBlogger respectively. Seems like they may be up to something that looks to tie the various pieces of podcasting together, at least that’s what Dave Winer thinks. It is intersting to see all of this energy in this space even as I managed to push out ClassCaster.
Oh, but wait, I haven’t exactly explained ClassCaster yet. Well here’s the pitch: grab a phone, dial a number, record a lecture or an analysis of something for your class, hangup, go to your blog and listen to it. All done with Asterisk, VoicePulse DID, MetaWeblog API, and 67 lines of PERL. It is nice and it works. No it needs a pretty dress:) We’ll tie it to our database and offer it up to CALI members and release the idea into the wild…