youtubeThis is my first attempt at posting a video onto YouTube:
Swan 1
And this is an embed:
Podcasts - these services have made my daily commute borderline enjoyable. My iPod which, utilises the iTunes podcast aggregator, allows me to keep up with technology trends, listen to poetry casts plus many other "rich" downloads. Here's wiki on iTunes:
"iTunes is a digital media player application, introduced by Apple on January 10, 2001 at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco,[2] for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The program is also an interface to manage the contents on Apple's popular iPod digital media players as well as the recently introduced iPhone. Additionally, iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store (provided an internet connection is present) in order to download purchased digital music, music videos, television shows, iPod games, audiobooks, various podcasts, and feature length films.
iTunes is available as a free download for Mac OS X, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000 from Apple's website. It is also bundled with all Macintosh computers, and some HP and Dell computers."
Bloglines | My Feeds (105) Some library 2.0 type podcasts
I like NetLibrary, - the public libraries are doing good work with these services. Project Gutenberg is OK - but the content is (understandably) a bit yesterday-ish. Services like Audible are great for aging readers such as myself:
" Audible, Inc. is the leading provider of spoken entertainment and information on the Internet. Audible specializes in the spoken experience, providing digital audio editions of books, newspapers and magazines, original programming, and TV and radio subscriptions. Consumers shop, purchase, and download audio content from www.audible.com (United States), www.audible.co.uk (United Kingdom), www.audible.de (Germany), or www.audible.fr (France) directly to personal computers for listening in a variety of ways. Most of our customers download audio to their PCs and Macs and then transfer the audio to MP3 players, personal digital assistants (PDAs), or to smart mobile devices (SMDs) for listening on the go. Others transfer, or "burn," the content to audio CDs, while some customers simply listen at their computers or through a digital home entertainment network. "
Have a look at AJAX to get a background on why the web 2.0 frameworks pose such a significant challenge to, and opportunity for, Library 2.0 delivery systems. The back-end is now the front-end and the user is in control.
From Wikipedia:
" Ajax (programming)
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Ajax, or AJAX, is a web development technique used for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user requests a change. This is intended to increase the web page's interactivity, speed, functionality, and usability.
The name is an acronym standing for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Ajax is asynchronous in that loading does not interfere with normal page loading. JavaScript is the programming language in which Ajax function calls are made. Data retrieved using the technique is commonly formatted using XML, as reflected in the naming of the XMLHttpRequest object from which Ajax is derived.
Ajax is a cross-platform technology usable on many different operating systems, computer architectures, and Web browsers as it is based on open standards such as JavaScript and XML, together with open source implementations of other required technologies. "
