Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Thing # 21: Podcasts

Similar to the Youtube exercise, this is a fairly straightforward endeavor. For this exercise, I added two RSS feeds onto my Bloglines account which caught my interest: Books on the Nightstand, which is a book review podcast, and The Jazz Session, which is a music and interview program. Beyond that, the uses within a library setting are very similar to the potential offered by Youtube or similar video feeds, and would make an excellent means of providing information for those patrons who are visually impaired, whether it be a children's librarian reading a story to uploading selected audio-books both classic and contemporary. Just as an observation in passing; of the two suggested sites, podcast alley was (to me at least) much better organized than the Podcast directory.

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