Earlier tonight, I taped the first episode of Uncontrolled Vocabulary. It’s already available for download; here’s the mp3. Details about the episode can be found at this post.

It was an unqualified success. Had about 7 people in the voice chat, a bunch more in the text chat and another group just listening to the audio stream. I found it fascinating that Twitter provided something of a backchannel for the streamers, but I had enough people on the call who were paying attention to the Twitter activity. Their comments became part of the main conversation.

I’ve added a TalkShoe player into the sidebar here for your convenient listening pleasure. Feedback is welcome via the contact form or by email (try greg and then try schwartz and then add at gmail and then dot com). Please visit the show blog for more information, including how to listen live and join the conversation.

The adventure begins tomorrow night. Uncontrolled Vocabulary will be recording live at 10 EDT. More details are available over at the blog, as well as on the TalkShoe site.

I encourage anyone and everyone to join in the conversation. The barrier to participation is a little higher than I’d like, but I know the TalkShoe folks are actively working on improving it and I’m putting my eggs in their basket for now. Read this post for details on how to join in the voice or text chat and/or this post for details on calling in using a SIP-capable VoIP client.

Should be fun, particularly if I succeed in managing the technical aspects while also holding together a discussion. We’ll find out, won’t we?

I’ll have info about getting the recordings and subscribing to the podcast feed after the first episode is online, but seriously, if you’re available at the scheduled time, please do stop consider dropping by, even if it’s just to listen to the live stream (no TalkShoe registration or account required).

By posting here after an extremely long hiatus, I’m committing to something that I’ve wanted to do for a long time and whose time has come.

I am pleased, excited and nervous to announce the impending arrival of the audio program I’ve always wanted to do: Uncontrolled Vocabulary, a live interactive discussion of current events and topics in librarianship. I won’t say anymore about it here, rather inviting you to check out this post, read more and consider joining me for the pilot (tentatively scheduled for Thursday, the 28th at 10 PM Eastern).

It looks like I’m really doing it!

The normally reasonable Dave of School of Podcasting offers the terrible guerrilla marketing idea of advertising your podcast by placing bookmark adverts (or even bonus CDs?!?!?) into library books of interest to your target audience. Go check it out for yourself. I left my comments over at Dave’s site.

Kenton County Public Library produces a series of video clips for the local public access station called Off the Shelf. For us syndication fans, they have made this series available as a video podcast, RSS feed and all.*

* At the time of writing this post, there seems to be some issues with their website, so I can’t confirm that everything with the feed is working as it’s supposed to be.

It looks like the whole “independent librarian podcasting” thing is finally starting to take off. Last week, we had the introduction of Marv’s LibVibe news program. Now, courtesy of Sarah Houghton, we have news of another foray into librarian-friendly audio content namely Library Geeks featuring Daniel Chudnov. In the first episode, Mr. Chudnov speaks with Ross Singer about OpenURL. Looking forward to checking this out.

Marv of the Mr. Nice Guy Show has a new library news podcast called LibVibe. Much like his other program, the format is short, briskly-paced news reports. Here’s a link to the feed.

Some interesting things to share:

Steven reports on Westerville Public Library’s new castr service, billed as a “podcast delivery system.” The current content consists of three videos, all available via the handy podcast feed.

ResourceShelf reports that AOL has finally launched their AOL Search Podcast Beta, using the same technology that powers Podscope.

iTunes has changed their podcast categories, so if you have submitted a podcast to their directory, you may want to look into this. Jason Van Orden tells more about the changes.

Thanks to a screenshot courtesy of Michael Stephens, I see that LISRadio is now available via RSS. At long last!

And don’t forget to check out the California Library Association’s too cute Summer Reading Pawedcasts (with according feed).

Christine Brown attended both of the SirsiDynix presentations that I recently gave and posted fairly comprehensive summaries of both. So if you’re interested, the links follow:

Part 1 - The Listener’s Guide

Part 2 - The Creator’s Guide