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New Podcast: "Copyright & Commerce: Orphan Works & Fair Use in a Digital Age"
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|A new Beyond the Book podcast (#265) from the Copyright Clearance Center. Here’s the Blurb From the BTB Web Page: From the perspective of copyright, 2011 has been a year like so many others in the Digital Age. Suits and counter-suits over copyrighted text, music, film and video continue to fly in and out of […]
INFOdocket co-founder Gary Price has written a roundup of several flight tracking apps and web sites that provide access to real time info. The post was published on Search Engine Land (where Gary is a contributing editor). Some of the apps/sites are fairly new while others are old favorites including a look at apps and a […]
From the Bowdoin University Digital Commons: Between 2008 and 2011, the Bowdoin College Library conducted an oral history project to create a collection of spoken recollections and personal impressions from individuals who have known George J. Mitchell in a variety of ways. These oral histories document his life and career from early childhood onward, with […]
Syracuse U. & The King Center Announce Audio and Visual Digitization Project
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|Wonderful news! From Syracuse University Library News: The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center) and Syracuse University announce The King Center Audio and Visual Digitization Project, a collaboration that will ensure that the slain civil rights leader’s legacy will be preserved for generations to come. Working with the Atlanta-based […]
Today Is World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2011
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|From UNESCO: The theme for this year’s celebration of the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2011 is “Audiovisual Heritage: See, Hear, and Learn.” [Clip] UNESCO has adopted 27 October as the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage to better focus global attention on the issues at stake, in cooperation with the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives […]
Kurt Anderson from PRI’s Studio 360 talks with Jason Boog, Editor of GalleyCat. The audio runs 5:30. Here’s a 5:30 minute report from PRI’s Studio 360 with Kurt Anderson talking about Amazon.com, the publisher. From a text summary: “Jason Boog, editor of the book industry blog GalleyCat, said Amazon is poised to become the next […]
From Creative Commons News: Freesound is a collaborative database of nearly 120,000 sounds. We first posted about the project in 2005. Freesound specializes in sounds, not songs, and those sounds have been used thousands of times from ccMixter remixes to a major motion picture. The project has just launched a complete rewrite of its site, […]
NSF Launches Science360 Radio for Web, iPhone and Android The National Science Foundation (NSF) has launched Science360 Radio, the first Internet radio stream dedicated to programming about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Science360 Radio offers 24/7 programming, with more than 100 radio shows and podcasts produced in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom […]
Direct to Radio Homepage from BBC Labs: http://beta.bbc.co.uk/radio From a BBC Internet Blog Post by Chris Kimber: I’m an Executive Product Manager in BBC Future Media working on what will eventually (sometime during 2012) become the Radio and Music product, in line with the BBC’s strategy for a small number of cross platform products, as […]
As Hurricane Irene approaches us here in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast we thought pointing out RadioReference.com might be useful to those of you who might like to listen to live feeds from first responders using the Internet. It’s also likely some of you have access to these feeds using one of many iOS, Android, and […]