podcast – Hugh McGuire

I’m on CBC Radio Ideas: “Opening the Book”

Hugh — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:48:14 +0000

I was asked to contribute to a CBC Radio documentary done for the show Ideas, called: “Opening the Book.” The doc featuresÂ James Bridle, Bob Stein,Â Kylie Mirmohamadi,Â Sue Martin, and me, and was produced byÂ Dave Redel and Sean Prpick.

The book has stayed pretty much the same for over 500 years: a bunch of paper pages between covers. It’s been both finite and easily grasped. But our digitally-connected world is forcing us to re-imagine what books could be.

You can listen to the audio here [mp3], and visit the CBC page here.

Interview with David Wilk

Hugh — Thu, 05 May 2011 02:00:00 +0000

David Wilk invited me to his Publishing Talks Podcast, to about LibriVox, iambik, libraries, PressBooks, and general future of publishing stuff.

Here is the link.

And here is the audio [mp3].

Interview with David Wilk

Hugh — Thu, 05 May 2011 01:00:00 +0000

David Wilk invited me to his Publishing Talks Podcast, to about LibriVox, iambik, libraries, PressBooks, and general future of publishing stuff.

Here is the link.

And here is the audio [mp3].

LibriVox Turns Four

Hugh — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:17:31 +0000

Today is LibriVox’s 4th birthday. LibriVox is a kooky kind of project with the following objective:

To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet.

Some statistics, as of today:

Total number of projects: 3113
Number of completed projects: 2556
Number of completed non-English projects: 364
Total number of languages: 29
Number of languages with a completed work: 26
Number of completed solo projects: 1214
Number of readers: 3094
…who have completed something: 2867

Total recorded time in all rss-ified works: 49596721 seconds, or 574 days, 0 hours, 52 minutes, and 1 seconds. Total of 50774 sections.

If you have a soft spot in your heart for LibriVox, perhaps you might consider leaving a little message on the blog, or the forum.

Or even better, perhaps you might help us record a few chapters of public domain texts? …

Media Hacks #7: How to Get Ahead in Advertising

Hugh — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:07:56 +0000

Here is Media Hacks #7, about where the bucks are or aren’t in online advertising.

This episode, an intimate trio performs for your pleasure: C.C. Chapman, Mitch Joel and me.

LISTEN HERE: Media Hacks: Episode 6.

Or: Mp3 download.

Media Hacks #6: Twitter, Demi Moore, Facebook

Hugh — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:00:31 +0000

Man I am getting behind on my Media Hacks postings. Oops. Well here is Media Hacks #6, about Twitter and scalability, Demi Moore’s bum, Facebook’s new company features.

Tearing up the airwaves in this episode: C.C. Chapman, Julien Smith, Chris Penn, Mitch Joel and me.

LISTEN HERE: Media Hacks: Episode 6.

Or: Mp3 download.

MediaHacks #5: Twitter as Google Rival

Hugh — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:13:10 +0000

Media Hacks #5: this one ended up pretty interesting, talking about Twitter as a search engine and possible Google rival, Google search tweaks, brands, and conferences/unconferences. On the media hacks hotline: C.C. Chapman, Julien Smith, Chris Penn, Mitch Joel and me.

LISTEN HERE: Media Hacks: Episode 5

Media Hacks #4: Economy, Advertising, News & Books

Hugh — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:36:08 +0000

Media Hacks #4: a conversation about the economy, advertising, newspapers, books and where the money might be, with C.C. Chapman, Chris Brogan, Chris Penn, Mitch Joel and me.

LISTEN HERE: Media Hacks: Episode 4

New Podcast: Media Hacks

Hugh — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:47:17 +0000

Mitch Joel, Julien Smith and I get together every once in a while for lunch, inevitably yakking about media, the web, communities. Sometimes they make me talk about marketing too. It’s almost invariably intense, and fun, and illuminating, and I usually leave all fired up (after having let loose with a few grumpy-old-man tirades against various offenders against common sense). Mitch keeps saying, “You know, we should record these lunches.” And Julien & I say: “Yup.”

But Mitch one-upped that idea, and asked some more smart digital people to join us for an every-so-often podcast. So, together with the three Montreal amigos, Chris Brogan, CC Chapman, Chris Penn will help round out the podcast sixsome. We’re calling it:

(No url yet, but it’s coming I think).

Here is the first episode (mp3), featuring Julien, Chris Brogan, and Mitch, but not: CC, Chris Penn, and me. [Note: it’s intro’d as Six Pixels of Separation, but it’ll have it’s own, er, branding soon. Also Note: Julien swears like a drunken sailor, which is why we love him].

[photo by CC]

hughscast(?)#1: nokia audiobooks

Hugh — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:32:14 +0000

This is an audio interview with Janne Vainio, an audio engineer at Nokia, who put together the Audiobooks project at Nokia’s BetaLabs. The project features LibriVox books as the first test books for download, in a special optimized format. From the about of the project:

Nokia Audiobooks is a beta concept that enables you to enjoy audiobooks while on the go. It includes a highly efficient audio compression technology optimized for voice (AMR-WB), a player application for S60 (Nokia Audiobook Player), and an audio converter tool for PC (Nokia Audiobook Manager). Whereas traditional music player applications are optimized for music, Nokia Audiobook Player is optimized for audiobooks, enabling you to browse chapters, set bookmarks, and automatically continue from where you stopped listening last time.

This is a segment from a longer LibriVox community podcast #74, that you can find here.

And here is the interview on its own: http://librivox.hughmcguire.net/communitypodcast/nokiaaudiobooks.mp3