SIRLS Podcast

The first SIRLS podcast for this school year is up. I played around quite a bit with a new page template to embed the audio and video streams when the user clicks on the play or download link. I'm still not entirely happy with the object and embed tags, but it seems to work with the latest versions of IE, Firefox and Safari. Here's a snip:

SIRLS Podcast: "August 29, 2007 - SIRLS Brown Bag Research Lecture. Kay Mathiesen - Group Rights to Control Information versus Individual Rights to Access Information. Play or Download Abstract: Intellectual Freedom is the core value of the Library and Information Profession. As the American Library Association puts it, 'In a free society individuals are free to determine ..."

News Feed

I'm teaching a course in Social Computing this semester and one of the tools I'm using is a FURL RSS feed of news articles and posts I find interesting or applicable. If you'd like to add the feed to your newsreader to see what I'm posting, you can subscribe using this RSS link.