Howdy everyone. I'm stunned by how many people still subscribe to this feed. I guess RSS makes that fairly painless. In fact, it's probably less annoying to stay subscribed to people with no content than people who send out empty, content-deficient updates every once in a while, eh?

And so let this not be content-deficient. As I think most of you know, I've been running a weekly live interactive internet audio program called Uncontrolled Vocabulary. Every Wednesday night at 10 PM Eastern time, an ever-changing group of librarians, info pros and the occasional outlier get together using TalkShoe to chat about news and hot topics of the week in libraryland. Anyone is invited to participate in the live conversation. I'll come back to how in a bit.

So far, we've done 29 episodes. Typically, somewhere between 5-10 people are on the call from a pool of 30+ people who've participated at one time or another. It's usually a lively conversation that meanders through a variety of topics in an hour's time.

In Episode 29, recorded two days ago, we talked about Amazon's purchase of Audible, the DRM protest at Boston Public Library, the Microsoft-Yahoo!-AOL-News Corp activity, and the intersection of personal ethics and professional research. And that's only half of it.

It's really, really good stuff and I encourage you to check it out, if you haven't already (or haven't since the early days). Better yet, I encourage you to join in the fun. Over time, TalkShoe has made this easier and easier to do. Here's how:

1. Dial 1-724-444-7444

2. Enter the show ID: 38665

3. Dial 1#

Dialing 1# will bring you into the call as a guest. If you want a username of your own, you can go to TalkShoe and sign up for an account. You'll create a 10-digit PIN that you would use in place of 1# to come into the call under your username.

There's also a chat interface that lets you listen live without calling in, as well as see who else is on the call (which is where the guest/username thing comes into play). TalkShoe has released a web version of this interface, so that a download is no longer necessary. Just go to our TalkShoe page at show time (anytime after 9:45 PM) and the link to jump into the chat will be available.

Of course, not everyone is available to participate in the live conversation, so recorded episodes are available for download. Our show page at TalkShoe has the most convenient list of mp3 links for download, but you'll need to visit the blog for the accompanying show notes.

And of course, you can subscribe to the show's Feedburner feed. It will work as both a blog feed (mostly show notes and reminders of upcoming shows) and as a podcast feed (for the mp3s, of course).

Those of you who don't do the RSS thing can also subscribe and get blog updates sent via email. You'll need to visit the sidebar of the show blog to find the email subscription service.

OK, enough already. If you haven't checked out the show yet, I implore you to do so. It's a consistent highlight of my week. If you have any questions about the show, drop me a line. And seriously, all are welcome to join in the fun.