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eBooks #1: ePub is to eBooks as MP3 is to music?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

If you’ve been around the block as long as I have, you remember the days before an audio codec was settled upon. All other readers have tiny market share in comparison to both of those players. They don’t have the same success with eBooks that they did with music. Other formats wane in importance.

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App Recommendations from the TechSoup Staff

Tech Soup

is a comparison shopping app that reads product barcodes so I can see if I’m getting the right price on things when I’m in a store. is a free way to listen to music, sports and news from all over the earth. PDF Viewer to look at PDF documents and also eBooks. It also brings up other peoples' product reviews.

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Jonny Goldstein's Shooting Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have to stick it in people's faces to get acceptable (to me) audio quality. Speaking of good audio, I raised this question on the video bloggers listserv and David Tames (who took the photo stills in the video) offered some great tricks here. How to make smooth transitions between music and talking. So, I like let them know.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08 Yes, there are licensing fees, but they pale in comparison to what it would cost if we had to rely on an open source product and maintain it ourselves. The more SaaS vendors can contribute to and not detract from that ecosystem, the better. {

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iLaw: Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The initial cyberstrategy was to capitalize on the inmates' interest in music by using music as a means of teaching digital skills. He described the curriculum where inmates learn both computer skills and the recording/audio production skills and the classroom space (with "walls made of radio signals").

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Impressions of the Palm Pre

Robert Weiner

But some seem crippled in comparison to their normal functionality. In order to get my music onto the Pre I had to drag and drop it into the proper folder (and the Help files didn't give a clue about which folder that should be -- I had to search online to find that it's the DCIM folder). Miscellaneous.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(it was the NMC’s 15th anniversary) that got rolled into a NMC@15 video , and a chance to sign up for 15 minutes of studio time on the John Lennon Bus to create a package of sharable music loops. We just sent it out, but it is really great to have people provide feedback in audio, text, or video form.