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April is “Future Of Publishing” Month!

Published by Sam on April 1, 2009
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The future of publishing – this is a broad topic, covering many different topics and technologies: electronic paper, Kindle, scribd, espresso book machines, and more. And since the future hasn’t happened yet, our only method of determining what is going to happen is to examine history and the present, and infer possibilities from the empirical evidence.

How exciting! Well, here I am at OLA in a pre-conference about recorded books, which seems like as good a place as any to start.

Number one: as a society we are more mobile now than ever. And we have tools that help us stay connected while mobile, which adds to the vicious circle.

Number two: Audio books, like many wonderful and useful technologies, started as an adaptive technology – something to help “impaired” people enjoy books. But, like automatic doors in supermarkets, the application of the technology has now expanded beyond the design, because everyone is “impaired” in different ways, sometimes. For example, many people have no trouble opening a door for themselves most of the time. When they’re pushing a shopping cart full of groceries, they are temporarily impaired, and in need of the assistance the doors provide. Once the universal need was recognized, the technology advanced – so now there are those crazy revolving doors at the airport that you can just about drive your car through. Back to recorded books and being mobile – people still love their stories, but are finding less and less time to sit and read. Commuters and truckers discovered recorded books early on, sure, but now the young people are realizing that they can get these books and listen to them on their fancy mp3 devices. So all of a sudden audio books are being taken seriously as a method of publication – not just a side note, but as a main method of delivery. All kinds of people are becoming consumers of audio-books, even people who are not in any way “impaired,” either permanently or temporarily. They just like to listen to the books.

The future: People are taking recorded books more seriously, so more books are being recorded with better narrators, who are actually enjoyable to listen to for ten, twenty, even thirty hours. I know there have been attempts to publish books that are only available in an audio version – these are called “radio dramas,” and have been around for a while. The audio book version of a radio drama is a “full cast recording” which can sometimes be good, and sometimes not so much. I think that all these elements have the potential of spurring on greater interest in literature that originates as an audiobook, rather than just ends up as one.

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healthy, educational video games are cool.

Published by Sam on March 18, 2009
Categories: Games 0 Comments

Educational video games aren’t a new phenom, by a long shot, but I think they’re finally starting to come into their own as actual good games. Here’s the skinny, with a lot of MHO to temper the facts.

Here’s a great blog post detailing a list of the Top 10 most influential educational video games of the 1980s. I bet you didn’t even know all those words could be used together in the same sentence, but here is the proof.

I think the reason why educational video games were not popular was twofold - first, video games were evil, and therefore nothing good could come from playing them, so educational video games seemed like a total paradox to parents. Second, kids weren’t interested in using video games to learn anything, at least not on purpose, so they avoided those games.

There’s been a pretty big shift in the general population regarding video games - the generation that grew up on video games is now coming into its own, and so video games are just a part of normal life. On top of that, the Internet, mobile devices and consoles provide a wide variety of methods to experience video games that appeal to every age group. That’s the key, I think - adults are much more interested in using the technology for continuing education than kids are, so now that its ok for adults to play video games, educational video games have a real place in the world.

Games For Health is a non-profit organization developed to explore the ‘good-for-you’ aspects of games, particularly as they apply in the health industry - so using games and game technology to help people recover from various conditions, etc.

At the forefront of this educational and beneficial gaming movement is Nintendo - many games available for the handheld DS are marketed as educational or beneficial to the users health in some way.

For example, Big Brain Academy and Brain Age are two titles that use lots of little, short games and puzzles to help you sharpen your mind, improve your coordination, and hone your memory. Throughout Brain Age, your guide offers suggestions on how to keep your mind active, and how each task is improving your brain. Many seniors have purchased DS’s pretty much just to play Brain Age, and have followed it with other similar games, as a way of keeping their minds active.

Personal Trainer: Math , My Word Coach and My French Coach are newer titles for the DS that are straight education - they exist solely to help you learn something. All of a sudden video games are overstepping their boundaries - if they keep making titles like this, then libraries everywhere will be forced to collect video games whether they want to or not - if you purchase language learning CDs, Cassettes, DVDs, and CD-ROMs, why not DS cartridges?

Is My French Coach a game? Sort of, sure. But how about Personal Trainer: Cooking? That’s an interactive cookbook available for the DS. You choose from over 200 recipes, and it talks you through them. You can use voice commands to move back and forth through the recipe, repeat a step, or elaborate on a step. It also has a shopping list function so you can check to see what ingredients you already have, and which ones you need to buy. That one’s not even a game at all. It’s a cookbook in a new format. Shouldn’t libraries be purchasing that? If they purchase that, as a cookbook in a new format, would they be impelled to collect something like What’s Cooking? With Jamie Oliver - that one has recipes to follow in your real kitchen, but also modes where you can create your own recipes and try them out in a virtual test kitchen, as well as straight game modes where you practice making recipes for speed, etc.

Of course, interactive mystery novels are also appearing for the DS, and though these aren’t ‘educational’ or “healthy” in traditional terms, they’re certainly non-traditional in terms of video games. What they do is enforce the idea that the console is no longer just for games - there are many uses for it, to meet the needs of the wide variety of people who are using it.

Video games, it would seem, are only at the beginning of their evolution - like many major inventions of the past, they started as toys, novelties, and distractions, and now have found their way into many aspects of our lives, for the long term. I just hope someone puts together a comprehensive and scholarly database of playable games sometime soon, with downloadable formats so i can play The Legend Of Zelda: Link To The Past on my Kindle while attending classes on the neuro-stimulus response of autonomic systems to interactive realtime electronic gameplay. Or whatever.

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Old-School Games

Published by Sam on March 4, 2009
Categories: Games 3 Comments

A Non-tech Games perspective:

Our library used to have more in-person old-school analog gaming groups where people could meet and play a variety of games - chess, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Checkers, etc. These programs have suffered from the economy as much as any program at any library, but I’d like to see more in-person interactive game programs coming back as soon as we are able, because it adds an element of community to the process of gaming, and helps to build community connections around common interests, interactions, and friendly competition. Multi-player video games do that as well, but there are some interesting philosophical differences between side-by-side interaction (everyone facing the screen) and face to face interaction (facing your opponent/s across a game board.)

My super nerd dream for a library program would be the equivalent of a book group, but with games. Wouldn’t that be fantastic? You’d have to meet weekly to get enough experience with each month’s game choice, but that would be a lot of fun, especially if your library already has a weekly game time set aside for chess, etc. With a little effort, you could easily pair a book with the game of the month - for example, you could play mah-jong one month, and read The Joy Luck Club. The next month you could play Go and watch the movie Pi, or read the first volume of Hikaru No Go, or another book involving Go. You could do Chess, or learn Canasta, or Whist (does anyone actually play that game?) or Backgammon, or Mancala, or any number of other games. Alexander Pope’s poem The Rape Of the Lock at least partially involves people playing a French card game called Ombre. It might be more difficult to play croquet and read Alice In Wonderland, but how cool would that be to set up a a croquet game at least once in the summer time, and play with people who are all interested in learning and talking about it? For that matter, I’d like to learn how to play cricket, at least so I can understand just about any British novel written in the last century.

For more totally awesome, obscure, historically significant, possibly very difficult to locate games, there’s a great new book out called The Book Of Games: Strategy, Tactics, and History, by Jack Botermans that has some really fantastic information in it. But there are plenty of other books out there describing different card games, games to play on a checker board, etc. With minimal expense, a program like this could get started, and if it proved popular and interesting, I think it could blossom into more interesting territory - ten or twelve decks of cards should be easy enough to come by, whereas ten or twelve sets of mah jong would be a bit of an expense unless you knew they were going to get used. Why am I writing all of this here? I should be making this into a proposal of some kind!

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Slideshare

Published by Sam on February 25, 2009
Categories: Audio, Communication, Instructional, Mash-ups, Photo, Video, Visual, movies and presentation 4 Comments

Strangely enough, not everyone is comfortable talking on camera, or even holding a camera and pointing it at other things and talking, or even just pointing the camera at other things and not talking. After years of laughing at Americas Funniest Videos, perhaps I had this unrealistic expectation that everyone likes to be videoed, and in particular people like to be videoed making an idiot out of themselves. YouTube has backed up that myth, by the way. Turns out that most people are camera shy, especially in libraryland, so finding people to talk on camera can be difficult.

image courtesy of flickr user peoplearestrange

Here’s some excuses:

I hate the way I look on camera
I’m in the witness protection program
My voice sounds funny
The camera adds ten pounds
Why would anyone care what I have to say?
Never in a million years, period.

If you’re one of these people, and everyone you work with is also one of these people, but for some reason you still want to make a video, or perhaps you’ve been delivered a mandate to make a video, then Slideshare might offer the alternative you’re looking for. Most movie editors will allow you to use photos instead of video clips - take a series of photos, plug them into the movie maker, add a soundtrack of either music or narration (or both, if your movie maker allows two different soundtracks), adjust the amount of time each photo shows, add transitions, if you want (fade from one to the next, etc.), and voila you have yourself a movie.

Here’s something I’ve run into, though - when I tried doing this in the basic Windows Movie Maker, it crashed on me. Repeatedly. I’m pretty sure it had to do with the size of the photo files, but it might be that it just didn’t like me, and has a vendetta against me. Sometimes it crashes when I try to make a video with too many clips, too. When that happened, did i spend money on a better editor? No! I turned to another free solution, Slideshare!

Slideshare allows you to upload ppt slideshows to share with others. You can leave it a slideshow if you want, or you can add an mp3 to it and make it a “slidecast.” You can sync the slides to go with the music/narration - so that the slides change at appropriate moments in your narration.

Here’s one I made: http://www.slideshare.net/crashsolo/car-repair-for-fvrl-members-presentation

I can see several good ways to use slideshare in libraryland:

Presentations - if you deliver a presentation at a conference, a meeting, or wherever, you can post the slides to slideshare, and give people a link to go view them. Slides by themselves don’t tell the story of the presentation, however, so you can record a version of you talk and synch it to the slides, creating a multimedia document of your presentation that others can view later.
Tutorials - screenshots and photos can go a long way in instruction, and a voice over can finish it up. I’ll admit my initial attempt at a car repair tutorial is pretty rough, but it was more for pitching the idea than for actual implementation.
Events - Staff, teens, etc. could collect photos, put them in an interesting order, add a musical soundtrack, and voila, you’ve got something interesting to watch that promotes library programs. It might not have the splash of animoto, but it can be easier to control when the pictures appear, and when text appears, and for how long, etc.

One of the things I’ve struggled with with slideshare is that I can’t upload it to YouTube - something that would make it easier for me to work with. However, it does have embed code so you can put it on a website or blog. If my library were to make use of slideshare things like my car repair piece, we would just take the code and embed it where we thought it should go.

There are other slidecast/slideshow sharing sites out there, and I think the most recent version of powerpoint (the one I don’t yet have) allows you to turn your slideshow into a movie with sound.

Some other slideshow sites:

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Library Video - Trends and Tips

Published by Sam on February 2, 2009
Categories: How-to, Instructional, Teens, Video and Visual 4 Comments

The start of a month of posts and discussion about video - trends, tips, tools, experiences, etc.

At Internet Librarian last year, there were several sessions dedicated to different aspects of library video creation - some encouraged librarians and staff to just start making stuff with whatever they have, and others encouraged people to shoot for higher standards before releasing what they made to the world. I’d like to advocate for a little of both. Some projects will require higher production values than others, so picking a project that’s right for your budget and experience can be a good way to avoid getting overwhelmed.

First, some trends. There are a couple of standard library videos that you can find en masse on YouTube: Library Tours and Teen Library Videos. The Library Tour seems to be a popular choice for libraries wanting to experiment with video because it’s a subject they already know a lot about, they have a good sense of what areas of the library are popular, what people coming to the library are looking for, etc. Teen videos tend to be a lot more creative, a little spastic, and aiming to be humorous.

Library Tour Videos:
A library tour video is basically a little advertisement, or a piece of marketing, or an invitation to computer users to visit and take advantage of more library services, so I think that production values should be as high as one can make them. I don’t mean you should go buy a $2,000 camera and some lights and microphones and all that jazz, just to make one video. But I do think that unless you have access to equipment and people with at least some knowledge of the movie-making process, you should probably start with another project, or give yourself ample time to research and prepare for making the video.

My favorite library tour video (so far!)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHljR4LYmOA[/youtube]

Teen Library Videos:
I think viewers are more forgiving of technical limitations in a teen library video - it’s not generally meant to be taken too seriously, for one thing, and for another, teen programs are supposed to be fun, so the videos try and make whatever they’re promoting seem fun.

My favorite Teen Library video (until you make one better)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLmtkD1kiK0[/youtube]

Now for some tips:

Most types of videos require some pre-production work:

Write a script.
See what kind of equipment and resources you have.
See what kind of talent you have.
See what kind of scheduling issues you will be working around.
Re-write your script.
Story-board your script - even if it’s stick figures and boxes with words on them, story-board it out - It will help!

Two factors that can make an otherwise great video difficult to watch (and therefore opposite to your goal) are light and sound - if the people watching the video are thinking about the lighting or the sound, then they aren’t absorbing any of the content, no matter how awesome it is. Most average and low-end video cameras have microphones on them, but the microphones are generally not super great. If you video someone speaking from too great a distance, the sound becomes very fuzzy. From too close, it becomes muffled and waffly. ‘Waffly’ is a technical term meaning “like you are hitting the microphone with a waffle.” If you are shooting outdoors, there is the added level of ambient noise and wind:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6r9zC-nVqU[/youtube]

Some workarounds:
You don’t have to shoot a video to make a video. What I mean is that there are a lot of tools out there to help make videos with photos, powerpoints, screencasts, etc. Watch ten library tour videos, and you’re likely to see a variety of video, photos, voice overlay, musical intros and outros, and more.

Here’s a great teen library PSA that makes great use of audio overlay, basic video effects, and simple filming to make a nice little ad:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbKsWqOJnD0[/youtube]

Send me some links to your library videos, and I’ll watch them and give you honest, constructive feedback. Unless it’s really awful, in which case I’ll pretend I didn’t get it. Just kidding.

Also, what are some of your favorite tools, apps, and sites for creating and uploading videos?

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ebird

Published by Sam on December 28, 2008
Categories: Data, Maps, Social and Stats 2 Comments

I was listening to NPR and caught a segment on eBird, a site associated with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology - so it’s cool. Basically, it’s a birding site, where people can register and add their birding checklist data, thus creating a huge database of bird movement patterns unparalleled in the history of Earth.

I figure it’s kind of like Wikipedia, but at a pure data level - you can’t fully verify that every bit of data coming in is accurate - you’re depending on the good will and the interest of the users to be a part of a useful system. But down the road, people won’t be coming to ebird for individual bits of data as much as they will for patterns in the data. So even if there are some odd variables that get thrown in there, the overall patterns should still be fairly accurate, showing where and when birds of which type passed by. I can imagine some kind of map integration and timeline technologies creating massive, dynamic animations showing the movements of one or many types of birds over specified periods of time, stuff like that.

Speaking of things that move around alot and get tracked online, does anyone else have fun doing Where’s George?

There are dollar bills circulating out there in the world with special stamps on them that say things like “Track this bill online,” etc. You take the bill, go to the site, put in the serial number and see where it came from, log it in, and spend it. Whenever that bill gets logged in in the future, you get an email letting you know where it was when it got picked up. I’ve had bills spent in Vancouver show up all over the United States. It’s kind of fun, and a kind of old school online networking site.

This has got me thinking of other types of data that enthusiasts of one kind or another could help to build - all kinds of plant and animal species, of course - money, sure - what about book lending statistics by LC or Dewey number? You could punch in your favorite number and see what areas of the US are hotter than others for your topic, what times of year show spikes in that subject area, and what unexpected spikes and dips might appear in your state or region. You could go general, like 718, or more specific, like 718.0973. Ten points for whoever can tell me what those two Dewey numbers represent. Only one point if you have to look it up first.

Back to birds - any birders out there? Have you tried eBird? I’d like to know what you think of it.

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Jumpcut shuts down

Published by Sam on December 18, 2008
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Videos and video editing is a pet project of mine, so I like to keep track of what’s going on in the industry. At several conferences, I’ve seen Jumpcut profiled as a nice resource for people who don’t have a video editor on their PC, or need to do some video editing while they’re away from their ‘puter, etc. Those days are done, apparently:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/17/yahoo-putting-jumpcut-in-the-deadpool/

I won’t miss it that much - i tried it a couple times when i was having trouble with my home computer’s ability to make movies. It always seemed very clunky to me, but maybe that was because I was used to a different editor. I think it would make more sense if existing video sites offered the ability to fully edit videos as part of their service.

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5 Great Sites to Help You Keep Track Of The Government

Published by Sam on December 14, 2008
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Stateline - a news site administered by the Pew Charitable Trust. Staffed by professional journalists, and drawing state-specific news stories from newspapers around the nation. Includes videos, text, transcripts, all kinds of things. Also has the daily speeches of state governors. Essentially, it’s a resource for journalists and statesmen to draw from, but it’s accessible enough that anyone can find interesting news and stories for their state (or any other state, for that matter).
Open Congress - a free social site where you can set up an account and track specific bills, politicians, and/or issues, and recieve updates whenever there is activity on any of the items/people you are watching. You can see how your congress-people vote on issues that concern you, and you can also ‘vote’ and comment on bills, and see what other people are saying about them, too. For political junkies, it’s like a giant ball of crack coated with heroin, washed down with sixteen shots of espresso.
Project Vote Smart - Check up on politicians, bills and initiatives, and get a better idea of what kinds of issues surround those bills, initiatives and politicians.
Change.gov - The Obama/Biden transition team site. Follow their blog, see where they stand on issues of the day, and send in your ideas on how they can fix the American Health Care problems. Or any other problem that you see in America. Or the world. Or wherever.
Open Secrets - Money in Politics - Great political action tool if you’re interested in the relationship between companies, lobbyists, special interest groups and politicians.

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18 Job Searching Resources

Published by Sam on December 7, 2008
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Howdy all - this is a tough economic client for many people. As a librarian, I’m looking at resources from two perspectives - the ‘what if’ personal perspective, and the ‘how can I help you’ perspective. I’m working on a class to teach people how to better use the Internet for job searches, with local resources spotlighted. Increasingly, job searching and career advancement are tied to online networking, in addition to the age old dynamic of realtime analog networking - i.e. it’s not what you know, it’s who you know, blah blah blah. So, here are 18 20 resources I’m looking at with a mind to profiling them in the class, with a small focus on local job resources.

Job Search article at About.com - Great starting place/catch-all for job searchers. Lots of topics to explore, but because there is so much here it can take some time to find what you want.
JobRadio - A podcast compendium - download and listen to mp3s of podcasts on job-hunting topics, ranging from ‘hottest tech jobs’ type podcasts to ‘facebook job hunting experiment’ podcasts, to ‘be careful what you put on your myspace page’ type podcasts.
Secrets Of The Job Hunt - Blog about job hunting strategies. Also includes podcasts and stuff.
Blank Resume Templates - It can be tough to find a free resume building site out there - this site has lots of advice, articles and other help, and also has three templates for basic resumes. Like the Word resume wizard, you start with a generic resume, and replace the different parts with your own information. Not the best way to make an awesome resume, but a good way to make a good resume. A lot of resume sites will allow you to put all your information into their resume wizard ‘for free’ and then charge you a fee to see what it looks like. Arrrrrrrrrgh. I. Hate. Those. People.
Idealist - Social site for people looking specifically for non-profit jobs and volunteer opportunities. Need to look at it more before I make a real opinion about it.
Not sure what direction you want to take your career - either because you haven’t decided yet, or because you’re looking for a career change? Check out the Occupational Outlook, which has profiles of all kinds of different occupations, including wage ranges, common tasks and work environment, as well as what the future looks like for that occupation - is it growing or shrinking, etc.

5 Big job hunting/networking sites - the first five are job hunting sites, with some social features involved. The focus of the sites is to help you find job listings. Craigslist is… well, craigslist, and LinkedIn is a social networking site focused on career specific networking.

Local resources: These are some local resources for Washington, Clark County, and Multnomah County. Look for similar organizations or local county government agencies in your area.

Worksource
Clark County jobs
Other Clark County-related jobs
Vancouver City jobs
Vancouver Area Job Openings - The site is a little old-school html looking, but all the links I checked went to real sites of real companies with real job postings, so I’m not complaining.
Vancouver Metro Area Jobs Classifieds - Through the Columbian newspaper, but powered by Yahoo’s HotJobs.com.
Portland Metro Area Jobs Classifieds - Through Oregonlive. Also has a resume builder on the site, if you set up an account.

Also, don’t forget the other end of the job search - unemployment: The Washington State Employment Security Department has a nice site that includes information on unemployment for both employees and employers. Also, they have a link to WorkSource, for more job searching.

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12 sites for foody foodness

Published by Sam on November 30, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized 6 Comments

In honor of Thanksgiving, and of the next month or so of licensed overeating, I present 12 sites for foody foodness!

The Food Geek - Great blog, full of food and drink news, info, and general, er, food-geekiness.
Foodsville- a virtual community of food lovers.
Drinkhacker - reviews and information on the hard liquor front.
Cookthink - use your cravings to find recipes - you might be like me and discover you are craving Wong Ah Wah Grilled Chicken Wings. Who knew?
Epicurious- an essential site for searching for recipes, with lots of extras!
Open Source Food- one of them food lover social networky things.
140 character recipes at Short Meal Service- Just like it sounds - and you can subscribe to it via twitter.
Coastr - A Social Guide To Beer
Carved Watermelons - Check out the beauty that is watermelon art!
Holiday Pie-rets - For you crafty people out there who wish that your head was a pie.
Turkey-shaped Jell-O® Mold: 2008 Competition- This has been going on for four years now - this year is by far the best yet. I can’t wait to see what people do next year!
Medieval Recipe Translations - because I’m always having trouble making a proper batch of gehalbirte ayre!

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Google Lively

Published by Sam on November 23, 2008
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Quick update:

Google Lively, which I blogged about several months ago, is shutting down at the end of the year. You can read about their reasons here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/lively-no-more.html

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Podcasting?

Published by Sam on November 23, 2008
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I’ve been thinking a lot about podcasting lately. For a variety of reasons, but mainly because i like thinking about things. I’ve started a podcast, but I’m not feeling very comfortable about my process yet. Like, what kind of information or presentation is best for podcasting vs. video or text? Obviously, a focus on sound versus visuals, so… voices, music, sound effects. Like radio theater. Here’s my podcast, if you’d like to see it. Vancouver Manga and Anime Club. At the moment there are only three posts - i might add another later today or tomorrow. What’s there right now is three different types of posts - the first (on the bottom of the list) is just a podcast, and was my first experiment with the recording technology, and I didn’t have any good ideas of things to say, so i chose a reading of a public domain poem. The next two posts are more in line with the theme of the site - manga and anime. I discovered that at podbean, which looks very similar to wordpress, I could embed youtube videos, I use “kwout” to show selections of manga from onemanga.com, and I use some text, too. Problem is, now the podcast - a tiny little thing at the bottom of each post, feels a little lost.

I had some friends suggest tumblr for this sort of thing - I can put photos, sound, video, text, whatever. It has a different look and feel from a ‘blog’ set up. I like it alright, except unless I’m missing something or i chose the wrong template, I can’t find where people could comment on things, which would make the site very unfriendly to people I’m hoping to engage in conversations with online. You can see what I’ve got going on here: VanMangAn.

Right now I’m listening to a podcast of This American Life, which is a lot of fun. I’d really like to do something that’s more ‘radio theatre’ like - dialogs, interviews, things that take a little production. Of course, the more production you have to do, the fewer episodes you can do given the time you have. It’s a work in progress, but I thought I’d share the process with you all, in case you have suggestions, or have wanted to do something like this but ran up against a wall and couldn’t move past it.

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healthy, educational video games are cool.

Old-School Games

Slideshare

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Library Video - Trends and Tips

Jumpcut shuts down

5 Great Sites to Help You Keep Track Of The Government

18 Job Searching Resources

12 sites for foody foodness

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