While I’m including the audio version as an attachment to this post, I’m no longer going to publish a detailed text version of the weekly IT Conversations News here in my blog. As it is, it takes about four hours to write, record and edit the audio version and to prepare the email edition. I think an additional blog version is redundant.
If you want to get the news via the web, just go to the IT Conversations web site. The most recent two weeks (about 20 programs) are right there on the home page. And if you want to get the news via RSS, just subscribe to one of the many IT Conversations RSS feeds.
Our collaborative production model here at IT Conversations is working great. In fact, all but one of the programs published during May were produced by Team ITC.
We have enough audio-engineers for the moment, but we could use another two or three copy/photo editors. If you’re interested, take a look at the wiki page. You should be a good writer — spelling and punctuation counnt! — and you should be able to do some simple image editing in Photoshop or some other tool.
Based on technology from MTG, the Freesound Project looks like an intriguing source for podcasters and others:
The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, … released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to
* browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a “sounds-like” type of browsing and more
* up and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license
* interact with fellow sound-artists!
We also aim to create an open database of sounds that can also be used for scientific research. Many audio research institutions have trouble finding correctly licensed audio to test their algorithms. Many have voiced this problem, but so far there hasn’t been a solution.