Sat 13 Aug. 2005

Podacsting Public Domain Books

Introducing LibriVox!

An open source audio-literary attempt to harness the power of the many to record and disseminate, in podcast form, books from the public domain. It works like this: a book is chosen, then *you*, the volunteers, read and record one or more chapters. We liberate the audio files through this webblog/podcast every week (day ?). LibriVox is a VOLUNTEER project: if you have problems with the quality of a recording, get busy and make another one; If you wish to listen, please enjoy; if you wish to record, please contact librivox.

Brilliant idea. Way to go, Hugh!

(via dose magazine)

The Road Ahead: RSS

David Kirkpatrick of FORTUNE: Cashing in on RSS

You know that blogs are cool, but do you know that blogs, and a related technology called RSS, may hold the future for software? That’s the view of Jim Moore, a longtime friend of mine, whom I talked to earlier this week. Moore and his three business partners caused quite a stir last month, when they announced that they have raised $100 million for the first-ever venture capital fund devoted to these technologies, called RSS Investors.

While rssinvestors.com is under construction, another interesting reference from the article is to Flock.

(via Scripting News)