I have been working with podcasts for some time now. In fact, I negotiated with the vendors hosting OCLS' first podcasts. There are a couple that I sync to my iPod on a daily basis...mostly talk radio that airs while I am at work.
On major drawback that I have encountered with my iPod is that Recorded Books doesn't have a download agreement with Apple, hence I have to download to my computer and download manually to the Windows Media Player on my cell phone. Short of getting Apple and Recorded Books to the table, the bonus MP3 player that is on its way will take care of my downloadable audiobook dilemma.
Thanks Tom!
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Copyright and Digital Technologies
Since the first VCR hit the shelves, the recording industry has wrestled with this issue. Technology had finally made amateur duplication of copyrighted AV materials easy in inexpensive. That was the mid-70's.
Thirty years later they are still fighting this game...and will probably lose, if they haven't already. Not because the technology is so easy--heck, it has been for years. The battle will be lost because of lack of enforcement particularly in foreign (non-US and EU) countries. The availability of major motion pictures on the streets of Hong Kong before a movie is even released attests to a big gaping hole in enforcement. On the music side, Napster is now legit, but has been replaced by Limewire and a host of other sites based outside the US. The RRIA is trying to prosecute, but with only limited success.
Job's article on DRM (and iTunes specifically) cites the ready availability of DRM-free music out there, and advances the position that music rightsholders secure royalties at sale, and unwrap online music from duplication restriction.
US and European law has actually stayed fairly up-to-date with technology advancements, though much was based on legal decisions in cases that were brought to court. It is naive to think that the rest of the world is going to react with much respect to copyright. In the past, that wasn't much of a problem because there wasn't much of a market there. That is all changing now.
It is going to be interesting.
Thirty years later they are still fighting this game...and will probably lose, if they haven't already. Not because the technology is so easy--heck, it has been for years. The battle will be lost because of lack of enforcement particularly in foreign (non-US and EU) countries. The availability of major motion pictures on the streets of Hong Kong before a movie is even released attests to a big gaping hole in enforcement. On the music side, Napster is now legit, but has been replaced by Limewire and a host of other sites based outside the US. The RRIA is trying to prosecute, but with only limited success.
Job's article on DRM (and iTunes specifically) cites the ready availability of DRM-free music out there, and advances the position that music rightsholders secure royalties at sale, and unwrap online music from duplication restriction.
US and European law has actually stayed fairly up-to-date with technology advancements, though much was based on legal decisions in cases that were brought to court. It is naive to think that the rest of the world is going to react with much respect to copyright. In the past, that wasn't much of a problem because there wasn't much of a market there. That is all changing now.
It is going to be interesting.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Week 8 musings
I really enjoyed this week's agenda. I have been interested in digital rights (particularly web image) management for a while and this gave me the opportunity to delve a bit into Creative Commons. I already had a flickr account (ajcalabrese) and uploaded some 'Creek shots and applied copyright terms. Cool.
Want to see more, you'll have to check out my account!
I also spent more time than I probably should have with protopage. I can imagine all kinds of uses for it.
Check it out...again the account name is ajcalabrese.
It's hard to believe that there are only a couple more weeks left to this program. I have been working with my learning buddy Reshard, and the tech staff has been helping the rest of the staff with some of the trickier parts. It's been a great learning experience.
More Web 2.0
Tom's suggestions were pretty cool...especially Trainco and dogster.
I have been a little lax with quantifying my workouts and am going to give Trainco a shot.
My dog Louis Vuitton now has a blog on dogster. For me, it led me to some info about his hair loss. (just like his dad.)
There's a couple web 2.0 apps out there that I really like. One is at the USA Track and Field site, called "America's Running Routes," it gives you an easy way to chart running/walking courses, and provides mile marks and total distance as well as course elevation changes.
Then, (the good part) you can post your routes for others to find via search by city, zip code etc.
This is great for people who travel. Check it out at www.usatf.org/routes/
I have been a little lax with quantifying my workouts and am going to give Trainco a shot.
My dog Louis Vuitton now has a blog on dogster. For me, it led me to some info about his hair loss. (just like his dad.)
There's a couple web 2.0 apps out there that I really like. One is at the USA Track and Field site, called "America's Running Routes," it gives you an easy way to chart running/walking courses, and provides mile marks and total distance as well as course elevation changes.Then, (the good part) you can post your routes for others to find via search by city, zip code etc.
This is great for people who travel. Check it out at www.usatf.org/routes/
Hard to believe it's week 7 already!
Thursday, May 24, 2007
That's why they call it the 'web'
Remember when you were first introduced to the internet? Specifically the world wide web?
For me it was back in the very early 90's; I was doing research for my company and one of the academic types suggested a new tool. WOW. Even at that time, I was amazed at the concept. I gorged my curiosity navigating from one linked site to another.
Why am I bringing this up? Because this week there were a number of neat sites that I either haven't been to, or haven't been to in a while; and this week's assignments brought me back to a couple sites like deli.cio.us. If you're like me, you can wander from the links there all day.
I'd seen libraryelf before, but with the options that ocls.info offers, I don't see the need, and as a 'middleman' site, it opens the possibilities for errors.
I particularly like www.whatshouldireadnext.com; I am often asked by customers what I can recommend for them (using their current reading lists). Will definitely help me -- and them.
A. Calabrese
For me it was back in the very early 90's; I was doing research for my company and one of the academic types suggested a new tool. WOW. Even at that time, I was amazed at the concept. I gorged my curiosity navigating from one linked site to another.
Why am I bringing this up? Because this week there were a number of neat sites that I either haven't been to, or haven't been to in a while; and this week's assignments brought me back to a couple sites like deli.cio.us. If you're like me, you can wander from the links there all day.
I'd seen libraryelf before, but with the options that ocls.info offers, I don't see the need, and as a 'middleman' site, it opens the possibilities for errors.
I particularly like www.whatshouldireadnext.com; I am often asked by customers what I can recommend for them (using their current reading lists). Will definitely help me -- and them.
A. Calabrese
Monday, May 21, 2007
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Web 2.0
Holy moly, is this a powerful video or what?
Watch it, then watch it again.
Sure portends some serious change.
But not to worry. It's all cool.
While exploring this week I happened on a couple notable sites:
Watch it, then watch it again.
Sure portends some serious change.
But not to worry. It's all cool.
While exploring this week I happened on a couple notable sites:
- http://www.43things.com/ : a pretty inspiring and motivating place, and,
- http://www.pewinternet.org/ : a compendium of internet facts. It wasn't too long ago that you'd have to pay consultants BIG$$ for this info.
Got 5 minutes? Take this quiz.
(I am an omnivore.)
Later.
Friday, May 4, 2007
Blogs and wikis and feeds, OH MY!
Week Three of Learn 2.0...
We are introduced to Bloglines. I have already used aggregators, but I like the usability designed into this. Easy to search; easy to use. I moved a couple of the feed I follow over to my bloglines account. Stuff like:
What I got was a pretty cool experience. I recently bought a new smartphone and typed in the model infomation. (Motorola Q).
It returned an outline of topics related, but when you hit the 'map view' they are presented by source and relevance in a graphical representation of spheres that interact about each other. If you hover over a sphere, it will tease you with some details.
I ended up buying a desktop charger and some game software...
A. Calabrese
We are introduced to Bloglines. I have already used aggregators, but I like the usability designed into this. Easy to search; easy to use. I moved a couple of the feed I follow over to my bloglines account. Stuff like:
- Engadget
- Fool.com: The Motley Fool
- Kiplinger Personal Finance
- NYT > Technology
- NYT Book Review
- Orange Slices
- The Shifted Librarian
- Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall
- WSJ.com: Markets
What I got was a pretty cool experience. I recently bought a new smartphone and typed in the model infomation. (Motorola Q).It returned an outline of topics related, but when you hit the 'map view' they are presented by source and relevance in a graphical representation of spheres that interact about each other. If you hover over a sphere, it will tease you with some details.
I ended up buying a desktop charger and some game software...
A. Calabrese
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
OCLS Learn 2.0
I have always believed that real learning has to have an element of experiential involvement. That is why I am so stoked about the Learn 2.0 program.
Yeah, yeah, yeah...you say you know everything there is to know about rss, digital image manipulation, podcasting and downloadable audiobooks.
Prove it.
Hop on board with me and my learning buddy Reshard. I think you'll like the ride.
A. Calabrese
Yeah, yeah, yeah...you say you know everything there is to know about rss, digital image manipulation, podcasting and downloadable audiobooks.
Prove it.
Hop on board with me and my learning buddy Reshard. I think you'll like the ride.
A. Calabrese
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