My Visit to Bannerghatta National Park, bangalore

LibriVox

LibriVox is a cool place for the free audio books. Librivox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then they release the audio files back onto the net (through a podcast, catalog, and bit torrents). LibriVox is a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.

Here’s how it works (generally):

1. LibriVox volunteers suggest books from the public domain, and if there is volunteer interest
2. A Book Coordinator (any volunteer willing to do the job) will post the book in the Readers Wanteds section of the forum
3. Volunteers “claim” chapters, and record them to mp3.
4. Volunteers send the files to the Book Coordinator (often using yousendit.com)
5. The Book Coordinator sends the completed Book to a Meta Coordinator
6. The Meta Coordinator posts the book to the Listeners Wanted section of the forum, for Proof-Listening
7. The complete, Proof-Listened book is then uploaded to the server space (either Internet Archive or iBiblio), and cataloged
8. The files are available to anyone to use, from catalog, and they podcast books one at a time.
   

So, practically:

• if you would like to help, check the LibriVox Volunteer page, or go straight to the forum.
• if you would like to subscribe to the podcast, please:
  a) in iTunes, click here: iTunes 1-click, or
  b) copy and paste the feed link (http://librivox.org/podcast.xml) into your podcast receiver (for instance, Juice)

NASACAST : Download the Universe

NASA has officially announced its podcasting service - NASACAST.

NASA Podcasts let you subscribe and automatically download new NASA audio and video content when it becomes available. The official NASA Portal podcast, NASAcast, contains the latest audio and video features from the NASA web site, NASATV's This Week at NASA, and more.

The podcast will be very useful to the students to know about the development in Space Research.

You can even subscribe to the RSS feeds for the latest updates.....

My Visit to Humayun Tomb ....

Last weekend, I visited Humayun tomb.

This tomb was built for Humayun, second Mughal Emperor of India, in 1570 by his persian wife Hamida Begum. A magnificent building in the center of the New Delhi.


Its plan, based on the description of Islamic paradise gardens, is known to have inspired the Taj Mahal and many later Mughal tombs. This type of garden is known as a charbagh and is based on a grid. Humayun's tomb was added to Unesco's World Heritage List in 1993.

I have snapped a good number of pictures and you can have a look at them in my flickr (http://flickr.com/photos/pandian ).

A great place for audio, video content & Visual Books

Learnoutloud.com has some amazing free audio and video contents. There are lot of interesting speeches, videos and audio books available. The contents are categorized into different subjects. Business category has many valuable contents from management gurus...

Some of the top class contents are Software Breakthroughs by Billgates, A Conversation with Jack Welch by Jack Welch.