"Handheld Librarian" and Podzinger
A great blog called "The Handheld Librarian" offered an interesting blog on a new tool called Podzinger.
Podzinger was initially discussed in the February issue of Boing Boing Podzinger "aggregates hundreds of thousands of episodes of podcasts, converts the entire text of the casts to text, and then delivers a searachable index," according to the article.
More recently, another related product, Podscope, was released. Podscope, is like Podzinger, but it also indexes video blogs (sometimes called vodcasts).
See the sites for details:
PODZINGER
PODSCOPE
Podzinger was initially discussed in the February issue of Boing Boing Podzinger "aggregates hundreds of thousands of episodes of podcasts, converts the entire text of the casts to text, and then delivers a searachable index," according to the article.
More recently, another related product, Podscope, was released. Podscope, is like Podzinger, but it also indexes video blogs (sometimes called vodcasts).
See the sites for details:
PODZINGER
PODSCOPE
posted by Sherry Buchanan | 3:09 PM
3 Comments:
Podzinger is a great idea, I'm glad you shed some light on that because it is a resource that I'll definetly use. How is it organized? Do you search by keywords? Interesting stuff
Sometimes when I read about these things I feel so out of touch. I don't even own an MP3 player. Both Podzinger and Podscope sound like awesome tools for finding information contained in Podcasts or Vodcasts.
I also enjoyed reading some of the other posts on the "The Handheld Librarian". I like the most recent post about real books becoming obsolete in favor of downloadable books. I for one hate the idea of reading an entire book on a computer screen. Losing a $350 e-reader on the bus, in a waiting room, at the beach, etc would certainly be a bit more upsetting than a $7 paperback book.
http://www.handheldlib.blogspot.com/
Dave - podscope and podzinger index the transcripts of podcasts.
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