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In an earlier blog, I mentioned my telephone call from Dick Bartley. I matched wits with the QuizMan. You, too, can as well. Visit dickbartley.com and try your luck.

Click the link to hear the actual broadcast sample that I heard this morning.

As promised, here is a guide to the Carnival of the Infosciences. I'm basing my model on the excellent Carnival of Personal Finance, so I will be co-opting (and indeed plagiarizing) its guidelines as appropriate. The following is subject to change as I get a better idea of what we need to be doing to make it work.

The Carnival of the Infosciences will be a weekly weblog post that endeavors to showcase the best posts in the blogosphere about topics related to the wide world of Library and Information Science.

Most carnivals are based primarily on submissions by the blog post authors themselves, fleshed out with the submissions of readers and the host. I hope to generate enough author interest to be able to follow this model, but who knows. If you write something that you'd like more people to see (or write a blog that you wish more people visited), this is a way to get your stuff out there.

Guidelines for Submission

If you are a blogger, publish your entries as you normally would, but submit the link to the article via the comment form. Submissions sent through the form will be forwarded to the current host, as the location for the Carnival travels from one site to another (just like a meatspace carnival).

If you would, please include the following in the email:

* The title of your entry.
* The URI (address) of your entry.
* A description or summary of the entry.
* Your name or other moniker by which you wish to be referenced.

The Carnival will be posted every Monday, so please submit before 6 PM Eastern Time on the Sunday prior.

The purpose of this is to showcase the panoply of great writing within the LIS blogosphere and to expose the world to as many LIS blogs as possible, so let's limit submissions to one per weblog per week. Naturally, we're looking for submissions containing original thought and opinions, rather than regurgitation and reiteration.

The week's host has editorial control over what is included or not included, although I encourage a general atmosphere of inclusivity and diversity, where practicable.

In order to grow this concept, once the post goes up, I'll be asking y'all to link back to it. That's how we draw attention to it and give the idea legs.

Guidelines for Hosting

Here's the one ground rule for hosting: in order to be a host, you must submit one post for inclusion. It's that simple; submit once, permanent hosting qualification.

I will coordinate the hosting calendar. If you would like to host and have submitted an article at any point, then drop me a line via the contact form and I'll add your site to the hosting list. If you've hosted and would like to host again, you simply go to the back of the line.

Here's how I envision the hosting process. One week before your hosting date, you post to your blog soliciting submissions. You close submissions by 6 PM Sunday evening to give yourself time to put the post together. It is posted sometime on Monday (your hosting date). Your post includes not only the selected posts of the week, but a link to the next host. At that point, the next host opens the floor for submissions on his/her blog and the process continues.

The host has editorial control and can present links in whatever fashion preferred, but hosts should add some commentary to the links to encourage readers to follow the links. If you feel short on content, dig around on your own for some additional entries to include.

That should do for now. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact me.

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By a vote of 5-0, I officially declare the Carnival of the Infosciences to be open for business. If you missed the post where I proposed the idea, you can find it here.

So here's what I want you to do. Sometime over the course of the next week (from now until 6 PM next Sunday, August 7), choose one current post that best showcases your considerable writing talent and send me the link via the comment form. If you are not a blog author, or didn't write anything particularly unique this week, send me the link to something you think is worthy of inclusion.

The content needs to be related to the myriad of topics that fall under the Library and Information Science umbrella. I encourage you to interpret that broadly. I know I do. And, of course, I'm looking for original thought and opinion, rather than regurgitation and reiteration.

I will post a more detailed overview with guidelines for submitting and hosting* in another post, but I wanted to get y'all thinking about possible submissions for this week. This will only work with the participation of all you wonderful folks in the LIS blogosphere. So write (or read) something great and join the Carnival!

*One of my main goals is to have a new host for the Carnival every week, but I'll take the first two weeks to get the ball rolling and iron out some of the initial wrinkles.

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Oh Canada, once again teaching the world an important lesson about caring, Georgie-Boy Pataki's presidential aspirations, why WorldCommmm's sad ex-CFO won't be livin' la vida loca in Boca and someone in Florida did something really stupid the other day (big surprise there).

-M!

Chad over at Hidden Peanuts posted his current podcast roll call, so I thought I'd follow suit. This probably reveals more about me than any sort of bio would.

Yes, I listen to all of these shows. The commute is a long one. There are actually about 10 subscribed feeds that I've opted not to list here, including all those librarians who dabbled briefly in the format (on the chance that they return).

Librarianship/Education
Open Stacks - Well, I have to make sure the feed works, now don't I?
Blind Chance - David Faucheux talks books, TV, music and issues related to blindness.
Listen Up! - David Free provides monthly news and information programming from the Decatur Campus Library of Georgia Perimeter College.
Teach42 - Steve Dembo muses on technology and education.
Virtual Dave's Podcast - R. David Lankes shares his presentations and other thoughts.
Teen Librarian - Miranda Doyle talks all things teen librarianship.
Online Programming for All Libraries (OPAL) - A varied series of sessions for librarians and library users
Daily SearchCast - Danny Sullivan and Gary Price review the previous day's search headlines.

Movies
Reel Reviews - Michael Geoghegan gives indepth 10-20 minute reviews of single films.
Cinecast - A weekly film podcast from Chicago with Adam Kempenaar and Sam Hallgren
The Movie Blog Audio Edition - John Campea and Doug Nagy shoot the cinematic breeze.
KCRW's Film Reviews - Joe Morgenstern shares his thoughts on current films.
KCRW's The Treatment - Elvis Mitchell interviews a wide range of Hollywood folk. (Not exclusively movie people, but more often than not.)
Family Reviews - A very cute family discusses the last film they saw together.
Ebert & Roeper

Music
Coverville - As the title suggests, Brian plays nothing but covers.
Tracks Up The Tree - A nice selection of indie tracks with Funtime Ben and friends.
SomeDepression - Features live shows by indie artists with buzz (think Sufjan Stevens or My Morning Jacket), broken up into digestible chunks.
The Music Never Stopped - Covering the Jam Band Scene, including the podcasted Grateful Dead Hour
Closet Deadhead - Sam Whitmore plays tasty nuggets and talks to old heads who don't fly their freak flags anymore.

Food
Erik's Diner - Erik Marcus talks news of interest to vegans/vegetarians.
EatFeed - Anne Bramley focuses on a different gastronomic topic each week.
KCRW's Good Food - Evan Kleiman provides all sorts of foodie goodness.
Pacific Palate - Don Genova talks food and beverages.

Tech
IT Conversations - A wide range of interviews, presentations, etc. related to Information Technology.
Future Tense - Daily chunks of technology issues from Jon Gordon
This Week in Tech - The TechTV guys living in the past, while looking toward the future.

Other
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything - Hard to describe. Highly entertaining.
Illinoise! - Just Pete and NASA Janet and the Arigatos.
Skinny on Sports - "The Fastest 10 Minutes on Your iPod"
How to Do Stuff - Tod Maffin gets extraordinary wisdom from ordinary people.
KCRW's Overbooked - David Kipen talks books and bookishness.
The Personal Productivity Show - Conversation about tools and approaches to improving personal efficiency.
The Cranky Middle Manager Show - Interviews with management experts and other insights.
Manager Tools - Good, practical approaches for more effective management
Open Source - Christopher Lydon's triumphant return to radio covers the usual panoply of topics
On the Money - Podcast of Steve Pomerantz' weekly radio show on finance

Test Driving
Pro Money Talk (financial)
The Ray Lucia Show (financial)
Dave Ramsey Show (financial)

Still subscribed, but on the verge of deletion
The Sports Pod Podcast
/Nerd - Tod Maffin weekly technology column for CBC radio. (Not much content lately.)
Engadget - Occasional appearances of techy goodness.
What They Sang To Me - David J breaks down lyrics, one song a day.

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Today’s Daily SearchCast covers the restraining order Microsoft won against an exec who went over to Google, the Danish-Canadian dispute over an island that spilled into Google AdWords, a Google patent application on RSS ads, whether Yahoo "sandboxes" new web sites, a way to see Google Maps & MSN Virtual Earth side-by-side, the Yahoo Yammy video awards and other items over the past day in search. Tune-in by listening to this MP3 file, listening via WebmasterRadio at 11:30am Eastern and repeated at 2pm Eastern or via our Odeo channel. Below is more information and links about the stories that were…

I realized back in March at Computers in Libraries that Gary Price was a radio man hiding in a librarian's body. So I was very pleased to read that he and Danny Sullivan, both of Search Engine Watch fame, have launched The Daily SearchCast, podcasting "a 10 to 15 minute overview of the prior day's search news." Nice!

Gary and Danny will be trading off hosting duties and they share the mic with a moderator provided by the show's producers. I'm still listening to the first episode, but I like what I hear. It would only be better if Gary and Danny were on at the same time.

Seems like an obvious candidate for inclusion at LISPodcasts.com. Here's a link to the podcast feed.

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