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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

Museum 2.0

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street.

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Smart Canes: Bringing High Tech to a Common Assistive Tool

Tech Soup

What Makes a Cane "Smart" Wired recently published a story about a prototype smart cane called the XploR , which is being built by a research team at Birmingham City University in the U.K. Selene Chew developed the BlindSpot as a project for her senior thesis at the University of Singapore. Other Smart Cane Models.

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Nonprofit Radio: How to Make Podcasts That Promote Your Brand and Engage Supporters

NTEN

Podcasting is formally defined as the act of distributing syndicated audio content online via RSS to listeners who use software or a hardware device to receive updates. No reason to be afraid: the important part of this definition is that the audio content is syndicated. The bit rate determines the quality of the audio.

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Guest Post: Shaking up the Ecological Landscape

Museum 2.0

And when individual museums invest in projects, such as exhibits, they tend to put a lot of their resources into proven model (gallery, furniture, labels, marketing, audio guides, associated programs), and count on them succeeding. In a stable environment, that worked pretty well.

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Impressions of the Palm Pre

Robert Weiner

The Pre doesn't include voice memos or any other tool for recording audio through the mic. I used Audacity Audio to record meetings on my Treo, but it won't work with the Pre. Results also included "English-French Dictionary," "Diet Control," and "Chicago Football Fans." Miscellaneous. Shape and size.

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