The Auricle

Some people with early laptops may have found the Replay Telecorder option I proposed in Part 1 an unsuitable choice. So I've been doing a bit more experimenting. I've found it possible to record Skype conversations using my old Dell Inspiron 8200 which offers fairly unsophisticated audio controls. Some of what follows may be useful […]

Here's an update to last Thursday's Auricle post Recording online audio interactions - the easy way?. Some other interesting candidate tools are appearing, but so have a few problems. Over at Webfeed Central I came across MixCast Live a work-in-progress by James Prudente of TinyScience which aims to make creating a podcast as easy as […]

Conferencing recorder, Skype, iVocalize, online interviews, skypcasting Earlier this week I focused on podcasts and raw MP3s with high production values, some of which originated from modest production facilities. Some of the more interesting memes in these podcasts arose from recordings of online or telephone audio interviews and commentary. But recording online audio interactions can […]

In previous Auricle articles I've alluded to the Internet and intranets as e-learning filling stations and, so, I thought it was time to engage with podcasting as one way of 'filling up'. For this article I was particularly interested in tracking down podcasts and raw MP3 files with high production values. I know, there's some […]

This week I've seen several references to DSpace pop up in my RSS reader - several of which were related to the University of Arizona's DLearn project. DLearn is essentially a Learning Object Repository that looks (and sounds!) very much as though it's based on DSpace. Although it's also registered on the DSpaceInstances Wiki the […]

Those of you who have been following our Open source enterprise weblogging series of postings may be aware that, in contrast to the “let's dominate the VLE market” ethos which has been supported, by default, by a significant part of the HE and tertiary educational sectors, some of us have been putting the case for […]

No sooner had I raised the question about the eventual need for management tools for the multi-user version of the open source weblog engine WordPressMU then James Farmer contacted me with a link to a plugin which provides at least rudimentary management facilities. If you pop over to one Derek Ditch's site he offers a […]

In yesterday's posting I applauded James Farmer's success in getting the multi-user version of the open source WordPress (WordPressMU) weblog engine working. I bemoaned the apparent lack of mainstream support for WordPressMU from the WordPress community and my own lack of success in installing and testing the former locally. There's news, at least on the […]

Last October, in BlogBuilder Highlights I was singing the praises of the University of Warwick's enterprise weblog system whilst making the case for JISC involvement in facilitating the availability of such facilities for other institutions. There's been some interesting developments on the open-source front. Over on James Farmer's blog we find Open source enterprise blogging […]

“… the VLE of the future is going to be less like an information portal, and more like an aggregator. it's going to be more like an editing and publishing tool and less like a browser. It's going to break out of the browser window and sit on the desktop … It will be slick […]