Duke Podcasting Symposium

Duke University Podcasting Symposium Duke University is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the first-ever academic symposium on podcasting from September 27-28 of this year. The two-day event will feature a hands-on podcasting workshop, as well as panel discussions of the economic/business, legal, political, journalistic, and cultural impacts of podcasting by bringing together prominent members of the podcasting community with policymakers, scholars, and media experts. The symposium will.. Read More

TRLN Program on NISO Metasearch Initiative

The TRLN is running a program on the NISO Metasearch Initiative, on Friday, August 26th, 8:30 a.m. – Noon. It’s free to attend but registration is required. Here’s the site for NISO’s Metasearch Initiative.

SETI@home, new & improved

Well, the BOINC-supported SETI@home is working out well for me. I’ve noticed that the work units are smaller with BOINC, taking my laptop about 2 hours to process per. I still don’t like the screensaver graphics as much as the Classic, but oh well. There are some cool plugins for the BOINC software that didn’t exist for Classic: the one I especially like is the sky map that shows the.. Read More