Friday, November 23, 2007

# 21 Podcasting

I tried Yahoo podcasts (could not access it from work - blocked as a streaming site, but no problems from home), Podcastalley.com and Podcast.net.
Yahoo consistently returned more hits for each search but the other two returned more targeted results.
I think www.tvdownloadhome.com/ten could be quite useful for finding episodes of tv shows, movies and software. They also offer free CD burning software and a good tutorial (a podcast of course) on how to use the site.

Yahoo returned 11,432 results on the word library (most of them referred to music libraries etc)
while Podcastalley.com returned 126 more targetted hits and Podcast.net returned 63.

I used Podcastalley to search for library darebin and found a podcast of their equivalent of our Boroondara Bulletin which they are trialling as part of their Disability and Inclusion Plan. This trial is worth watching as it has an obvious use for our service.
I have added this feed to my bloglines account.
http://www.darebin.vic.gov.au/Files/darebinnewspodcast.xml

1 comment:

Polyxena said...

I don't understand why you were having sites banned, Pickwick. Didn't you get the instructions about how to get into another version of the internet for the purpose of this course? IT set this up especially for libraries

AH