creating a sound and video podcast cheap and quickly

To create a cheap and easy sound and video podcast:
Disclaimer... it isn't real slick, but it's functional and something anyone can afford and very simple.

Use Powerpoint 2007 to create slides as usual
Use the add sound feature to narrate (record narration found in slideshow tab)(you'll need a microphone)
as you record your narrative, advance through your slides, powerpoint will prompt you if you wish to save your "timings"; say yes and your narrative with the slides progressing will run as you recorded it.
you can add some background music on the insert tab, sound from file (you can use public domain music)

save your powerpoint
convert your powerpoint to quicktime or some video type format and post it where people can "view" it, I use Wondershare's trial download, you can use it as long as you don't mind their embedded banner painted on as watermark, you can purchase the full product and there's no banner

MissIN3 Rate Limit presentation Quicktime Movie

Be careful and have a wonderful holiday- from network services

Shared from people-press.org

tcstover@mlc.lib.ms.us has shared the following report with you from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press (people-press.org):

Internet Overtakes Newspapers As News Source
Biggest Stories of 2008: Economy Tops Campaign

Go to http://people-press.org/report/479/internet-overtakes-newspapers-as-news-source

Book Sprouts Site

Reading books is usually a solitary experience, but it triggers social activity as well, as the ongoing success of real-life book clubs shows. BookSprouts is a fairly new online community dedicated to book readers who love discussing books over a nice cup of virtual coffee. The social network is designed to make it easy to start an online book club, discuss books with other individuals, organize meetings and write up reviews.

First of all: the website looks and feels great. Signing up was quick and easy, and the lay-out of the website as well as the copy all make it very clear what to do after you’ve registered. There’s a powerful search behind the community layer so it’s very easy to add books you’ve read, or books you haven’t read yet but would like to. Creating and joining a book club on BookSprouts is done in a heartbeat, and you can look for book clubs by book (surprise!), subject, author, or geographic location. Based on the search results, the social network currently counts about 275 virtual book clubs, but some of them are invite-only.

Internet "clogged"

If you’ve been having trouble accessing some of the web’s most popular sites over the past couple days, you aren’t alone - reports have been pouring in that major sites like Amazon, CNN, and ESPN have been having sporadic outages in some areas across the United States. The problem seems to be stemming from an issue with Level 3Communications, which operates one of the largest internet backbones in the world.

According to InternetPulse, the provider has been showing severe latency times, and a number of other sites have confirmed that Level3 is the source of the issue.

Some of the affected sites are beginning to write blog posts explaining their outages to users (here are posts from SliceHost and Posterous). It looks like some of the issues are being resolved, but some sites are still having problems.

We should also note that AT&T customers have been reporting widespread outages in some regions. We’re trying to find out if the two outages are related.

Update, 11:45 AM PST: Level3 technical support technician Eunice Morales says that all of the issues have been resolved, and that the problems originated from Washington, DC, Chicago, Spain, and Germany. She also says that the problems with AT&T could possibly be related to the Level3 issues.

Library Journal - Library PR 2.0

tcs has sent you an article.

Library PR 2.0
Read the full article at:
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6602856.html&

Check out this post on WebWorkerDaily

Greetings--

tcs thinks this will be of interest to you:

Are Cellphones Really Displacing�Laptops?

http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/12/22/are-cellphones-really-displacing-laptops/

Enjoy.

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http://webworkerdaily.com

Christmas time electronics and news!

gift ideas under $50
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/36119

news:
Cellular issues predicted for January 20 2009 inauguration day
New ereader, called Foxit eSlic coming soon, cheaper than sony ebook or amazon kindle
Tiny iKit notebook computer 2.8" LCD

Blackberry leads market

According to J. Gold Associates and posted in latest issue of Government Technology magazine, Blackberry's have 66% market share of the smart phone market, with Windows mobile at 23%, and Apple's I-phone 16%.

Palm and Linux based phones bring up the rear each with less than 10%.

free spectrum possibly shaping broadband access

AW3s spectrum news.... you may want to read Shwartz' blogs at infoworld on this matter

http://weblog.infoworld.com/realitycheck/archives/2008/10/free_spectrum_c.html
http://weblog.infoworld.com/realitycheck/archives/2008/12/free_broadband.html

Futuring... Internet

Interested in where internet technology is going, read this
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_FutureInternet3.pdf

past reports
2006 http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Future_of_Internet_2006.pdf
2005 http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Future_of_Internet.pdf

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from Network Services!!!

The latest.... android phones, and funeral home blogs?

Well, I must say... this takes even me by some surprise....

Buzz and more buzz on android phones. As best I can determine, these are "open source" code type devices, act much like other cell phones, but not tied to a vendor specific line of applications. Looks like a few of the major players in this industry signed on to their open source consortium today.

Next taken by surprise, having had a recent death in the family, (an aunt), I was directed a week later to the on-line obit, wherein I was directed to the on-line funeral home blog where folks posted condolences. Now that is really something I find both facinating and horrifying all at the same time, but I guess it is nice to read and possibly post some tidbits to make everyone smile about a loved one who has passed away. But, be advised, just in case you weren't aware or the funeral homes weren't offering this in your areas yet... it's already being done.

Live traffic alerts from MDOT

This is way cool…
If you need to check travel conditions or get a peek at the live alerts on the MDOT highway billboards, or view live camera feeds around the state, go to
http://www.mstraffic.com/
you can opt also to view this from a handheld device like a blackberry or smartphone or some cell phones with video capability

All Libraries migrated to MissIN3 MPLS

All libraries have successfully migrated over to MissIn3 MPLS!
MissIN2 is officially sunset. Thanks all!