The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
Lewis & Clark Law School Podcasts – Paul L. Boley Law Library – L&C gets off to a great start with podcasts of their recent Open Access Publishing and the Future of Legal Scholarship Symposium. It looks like they are using WordPress to power the podcasting blogs.
Sony inked a deal on Monday to sell its new Reader device in Borders bookstores across the United States, including some airport locations. The Sony Reader, demoed at this year’s CES conference in January, offers a high-contrast, high-resolution (800×600) electronic paper display for viewing e-books and text documents.
BetaNews | Borders to Sell Sony Reader Device
Borders will also sell prepaid cards for the Sony’s CONNECT service where e-books and such can be purchased online. The reader will also display PDF and JPEG files. Internet material such as RSS feeds will be available through CONNECT. This is from the Sony website:
The Sony Reader isn’t just about reading eBooks. Using
the included CONNECT™ Reader PC Software, you can easily transfer
Adobe® PDF documents, BBeB Book, and other text file formats to the
Reader. Seamlessly search, browse and download user-selected RSS Web
content from CONNECT™ Store to the PC and transfer to your Sony®
Reader. Take along your favorite Web newsfeeds, blogs and more to read
where ever you are.
Sounds like a text-centric version of iTunes, which is OK by me. Of course, I can also run Linux on my iPod or just use it as a giant disc drive and get at data w/o iTunes. One would hope Sony would have learned its lesson with the Libre and make the Reader more accessible.
Wayback – Home Page – OK, now you can run your very own Internet archive. This is an open source version of the Internet Wayback Machine that powers the Internet Archive. First reaction – why? But think about it from an archival point of view. There is real value ion being able to maintain an archive of your older sites. And there could be value in an organization like CALI spidering law school sites to maintain archives. Think disaster recovery.
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The People’s Lawyer – Run by a faculty member from U of Houston Law Center. Looks like a site that could use CALI Lessons for its users.
A study done by Bridge Data suggests what many of us already suspected: Podcasting is popular, but it has little to do with the "pods," that is, the iPods and other portable players for which "Podcasting" was supposedly born. The study concluded that 80 percent of podcasts are either listened to and/or watched on a PC, or simply deleted.
Podcasts don’t cast into the Pod
Interesting article raises a good question: what is a podcast? and why is it a podcast? Results of the CALI mid-semester podcasting survey of Classcaster users turned up much the same with 3/4 of students listening to podcasts of course materials on their PCs and not on portable MP3 devices. So everyone buys into the Apple marketing of iPods everywhere, but in reality it’s jsut regular old computer users listening while they work or surf.
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