At some point, I want to get a LibraryThing podcast going. I did one formal episode already, an interview with librarian Jason Griffey, a cool librarian, about a year ago.

What I’d really like to do is something like Uncontrolled Vocabulary, Greg Schwartz’s weekly, freewheeling phone-in conversation, now on indefinite hiatus, or the Stack Overflow podcast, a similar shoot-the-breeze between star-programmers Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood.

Until that day, here’s a 50-minute kaffeeklatsch between LibraryThing employees, recorded back during out “week of code.” It was originally filmed, but, well, I’m vain.

Here’s the direct link to the MP3: http://www.librarything.com/podcast/002.mp3

In the conversation (around the room clockwise): Tim Spalding, Mike Bannister, Casey Durfee, Sonya Green, Chris Catalfo, Luke Stevens, Chris Holland. Alas, Abby was in Boston, John in Hobart and Giovanni in, I think, Thailand.

Topics:

• The Kindle
• Comic books
• Academic publishing
• Archaeology
• Newspapers
• O’Reilly books
• Marginalia
• Female archaelogists who wear plants
• Why Chris Holland is above CSS books
• Internet Explorer 6
• Bad collections forecasting

Enjoy! And tell us what idiots we are on Talk.

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