More on Librarything

As noted in previous posts librarything is one of the better of the internet sites collectively known as web 2.0. You can hear librarything's founder Tim Spalding, interviewed on the Book Show by Ramona Koval. You can listen to it by podcast and streaming audio and it should be available for the next couple of weeks.

Spalding talks about the philosophy behind librarything and how traditional libraries are using it

# 21 Dear Poddies

I like podcasts because I like the spoken word. It gives the combination of performance, emotion and intellect which can be not only uplifting but entertaining. There is nothing like Gore Vidal speaking to one of his essays or a really good interview between an informed host and an articulate guest. I tried the 3 podcast directories ( Podcast.net, Podcastalley.com, and Yahoo Podcasts) with mixed results. I tried searches on Chalmers Johnson (a historian who is critical of American foreign policy and who popularized the term blowback). Only Yahoo Podcasts came up with results (4 podcasts from various sites). I then tried searches on Phillip Adams as "host" on Podcast.net and this netted podcasts of his Late Night Live programme which I added as a RSS feed to bloglines. For the sake of this exercise I plugged in searches for a sister program, "The Book Show"which I knew also had podcasts. None of the directories found this podcast. I tried searches of its host , Ramona Koval and still nothing was found.

Love podcasts, but the directories are very American-centric and far from ideal.