Posted on January 11, 2006 10:02 am by Shel Holtz | Pointers
Another podcasting transcription service has sprung up, this one called Casting Words. The service uses a network of human transcribers (no voice-to-text software) and promises a quick turnaround at 42-cents (US) per minute. The idea behind podcast transcription is to get podcast content into the realm of content you can search via Google and other search engines. As Podzinger and…
Posted on January 10, 2006 1:40 pm by Shel Holtz | Pointers
Lawrence Lessig (constitutional law professor, author, blogger, Creative Commons innovator) has produced a downloadable version of a presentation he created to address the fair use implications of the Google Books project. His blog addresses how he created what turned out to be an 85 MB file (available as a BitTorrent seed). The presentation includes the slides and Lessig’s voice.
A couple RSS…
Posted on January 3, 2006 10:25 am by Shel Holtz | Pointers
A C|Net article has a couple fabulous examples of the benefits of monitoring the blogosphere. If you’re trying to convince management to fund the cost of monitoring, send them this article.
I’ve never been a fan of fear as a PR tactic, and the strike-fear-in-their-hearts approach now appearing on the Grokster site is an example of fearmongering at its worst. Grokster, remember, is the…
Posted on December 30, 2005 10:19 am by Shel Holtz | Pointers
Chris Anderson over at The Long Tail blog points to a Wired magazine wiki that lists Fortune 500 blogs. Too bad Wired wasn’t aware of The New PR; it would have been no problem to extract the Fortune 500 blogs from Constantin’s lists rather than start from scratch. Who knows? They may have even turned up one or two they didn’t know about. The…
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