Centuries of Sound
An audio mix for every year of recorded sound, 1859 to the present.
Currently up to 1936.
An audio mix for every year of recorded sound, 1859 to the present.
Currently up to 1936.
Here’s the live podcast recording I was on at the View Source conference in Amsterdam a while back, all about the history of JavaScript.
My contribution starts about ten minutes in. I really, really enjoyed our closing chat around the 25 minute mark.
It was such a pleasure and an honour to watch Saron at work—she did an amazing job!
I wish I were here for this (I’m going to be over in Ireland that week)—an evening with James Burke, Britain’s voice of Apollo 11.
Here is your chance to find out what went on behind the scenes as James revisits the final moments of the Apollo mission. He’ll recreate the drama, struggling to make sense of flickering images from NASA and working with the limitations of 1960s technology. We’ll hear what went wrong as well as what went right on the night! Illustrated with amazing archive material from both the BBC and NASA, this will be the story of the moon landings brought to you by the man who became a broadcasting legend.
Given its origins and composition, the Obama library is already largely digital. The vast majority of the record his presidency left behind consists not of evocative handwritten notes, printed cable transmissions, and black-and-white photographs, but email, Word documents, and JPEGs. The question now is how to leverage its digital nature to make it maximally useful and used.
Videos for the whole first season of James Burke’s brilliant Connections TV series.
Internet Archive and chill.
It turns out that a whole lot of The So-Called Cloud is relying on magnetic tape for its backups.
This looks like a very handy tool for doing little screencasts where you don’t need to capture the whole screen.
We asked you to tell us what you’d put on a new Golden Record. Here’s what you chose.
Ever thought about what you’d put on the Voyager golden record? Well, what are you waiting for? Your website can be your time capsule.
I recorded audio versions of some of my favourite blog posts.
A very handy “how to” for recording your own podcast.
Busker Du (dial-up) is a recording service for buskers through the telephone (preferably public payphones hidden in subway stations).
A handy Mac app from Google that allows you to record from your iSight and upload directly to YouTube.
Intrepid adventurer Ben Saunders is off again. This time he aims to to set a new world speed record from Ward Hunt Island to the Geographic North Pole. He is armed with a beautiful website courtesy of Colly and the lads at Erskine.
The RIAA now says it is illegal for you to put that CD you bought onto your own computer. Asshats.
A brilliant summation by David Byrne of the possible business models available to musicians today.
Radiohead are distributing their next album themselves. You'll be able to download it for the princely sum of... whatever you feel like paying.
This is a great way to deal with telemarketers.
You can now create podcasts on Odeo. This is going to be huge.
Scroll down to the end - Apple are offering a command line tool for adding chapters to podcasts. You can also add images which will show up in the artwork window of iTunes.