Podzinger: search the full text of podcasts (BiongBoing)

Podzinger is a service that aggregates hundreds of thousands of episodes of podcasts, converts the entire text of the casts to text, and then delivers a searachable index. You go to Podzinger, search for a search, and you get back all the podcasts that have mentioned that term -- along with embedded players that can play you back the whole podcast, or just those segments where the keywords are mentioned. In a nutshell, this lets you do Tehcnorati-style full-text searching of podcasts, treating them like textual blog-entries. It's way slick.

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From Blogs to Plogs

Have you or do you know anyone who has created a library "plog"? Amazon, one of my favorite and most frequently visited websites had a plog right in the middle of the page. I think Amazon has copyrighted plogs, but I found a software called
Basecamp where you can set up a free trial plog. Basecamp is web project management software for collaborative groups where you can have a writeboard to do group documents, a message board, a to do list, a calendar, and lots of other neat stuff. I have set up a Library Plog for anyone who wants to participate to discuss possible uses for plogs in libraries. If you would like an invitation to join the discussion in my "library plog", please email me at lbell927@yahoo.com and I will set up an account and you can join us in the fun! You can even set up your own RSS feed so that if any additions or changes are made, you can see it in your feed. What will they think of next?