Archive for the 'General' Category

Podiobooker Podcast #7

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

Co-founder Tee Morris joins J.C. Hutchins and Evo Terra for the podcast. Big Podiobooks.com news in this episode — more cool content is coming to PB.com! — and we feature four titles. Featured podiobooks: Weaver’s Web by P.J. Ballantine A Different Point of View by TD-0013 MOREVI: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana by Tee [...]

Irish Literary Revival

Monday, May 1st, 2006

Every time I hear of someone else trying to find ways to get more books in the hands (or ears) of more people in a “free culture” environment, I get warm fuzzys all over. You may wish to check out the Irish Literary Revival. This is where out-of-print and out-of-circulation Irish books are brought back [...]

Happy Birthday to Chris!

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear Chris… (you 35 year old man) Happy birthday to you.

Podiobooks as teaching tools

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

My wife is a teacher of language arts, and I’ve had many conversations with educators who like the idea behind Podiobooks.com. Seems the infection is spreading around the world, according to an ESL teacher from Greece: I’m using The Pocket and the Pendant audio book by Mark Archer as a teaching tool.I give the students [...]

DRM – Evil or Genius?

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Highly recommended reading report. Dave Slusher of the Evil Genius Chronicles has a very insightful post on issues surrounding DRM, Digital Rights Management. For those unfamiliar, the promise of DRM for publishers is prohibiting illegal use of their digital files. CDs, ebooks, audio books… DRM is everywhere. It may seem logical on the surface, but [...]