The Shifted Librarian: Speaking about Blogs....

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Thursday, June 9, 2005

Speaking about Blogs....

Yesterday, Larry Sloma, who (along with Troy Swanson) helped Moraine Valley Community College get all bloggy and RSSified, sent me an email noting that he’s running a pilot project on his new library’s web site. Check out the Highland Park Public Library’s blog, which you can now have read to you.

“Inspired by Gary Price's recent post about Speakwire, we thought we'd try to add a voice to our pilot blog. Works like a charm!
Look for the button labeled ‘Want this blog to read to you?’ near the bottom of the right hand column at http://lishost.org/~hpplblog/.”

That wasn’t enough for Larry, though. Today, I got an email from Troy, saying that Larry had also helped MVCC set this up for their blogs, too. Check out the “Click to Listen” link on the right-hand side of their Library News blog!

Here’s the weird, spooky, serendipitous part. I’m reading my work email tonight (yeah, I’m that overwhelmed at work that I’m doing email from home these days), when the following message from David Mattison appears on the WEB4LIB mailing list:

“I spotted a Google Adsense ad on my blog for a new service called Talkr.com (http://www.talkr.com) that offers conversion of text-only blogs into podcasts. I haven't tried it, but it sounds like (pardon the pun) there's a library application in there somewhere. The company has a revenue sharing program if they select your blog as one of their podcasts. Jenny Levine's The Shifted Librarian blog is one of the blogs already available as a podcast.”

That’s news to me! But, I guess if you’d rather listen to my posts than read them, here’s your chance.

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