Uno de mis podcasts favoritos es IT Conversations creado por Doug Kaye. En IT Conversations te puedes subscribir de forma gratuita a grabaciones de una gran cantidad de conferencias y entrevistas sobre temas tecnológicos. Ahora este pionero del podcasting tiene un nuevo proyecto en mente:
Every day there are scores or even hundreds of fascinating and important conference sessions, lectures or other presentations that are lost. They simply evaporate because no one captures or records them. Some of these presentations are by the greatest and most inspiring minds of our time, and many could be important to people in the far reaches of the planet, if only they could hear them.
My new project is to capture (record) all of these presentations, post-produce them, and make them available worldwide for free.
To record tens of thousands of events each year, we will appeal to the social conscience of the worldwide army of podcasters 10,000 today, and 25,000-50,000 within a year who I believe will be enthusiastic about the opportunity to give back to their communities and to the world. As a side benefit, these podcaster stringers will hone and extend their skills and build their reputations in ways that could benefit them financially and otherwise.
We will build an online dating service that will match podcasters with events in their communities. Likewise, we will recruit volunteer writers and producers to create and edit the metadata and descriptions that accompany the recordings. Content will be managed, and quality will be maintained, by a Wikipedia-like system and community. High-volume content will be delivered by a combination of BitTorrent and partners such as the Internet Archive.
We will cover not just IT or even technology, but literally every topic about which someone speaks and another person finds it valuable enough to capture.
(Una traducción de este texto la podéis encontrar en Microsiervos)
El proyecto me parece bastante ambicioso, pero la verdad es que me parece increíble que se puedan costear el gasto en ancho de banda de IT Conversations. Le deseo toda la suerte a Doug Kaye en su nueva aventura, gracias a el, mis paseos entre casa y el trabajo son más enriquecedores.
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