“Overdrive, which is one of the main suppliers of downloadable audiobooks to public libraries, announced that it is retiring its DRM-encrusted .WMA formats and pushing everything to DRM-free .mp3s.”

This is in response to user preferences, widespread compatibility of MP3 across all listening devices and the fact that the vast majority of our extensive audiobook collection is already in MP3 format. This includes the audiobook collections from Hachette, Penguin Group, Random House (Books on Tape and Listening Library), HarperCollins, AudioGo, Blackstone, Tantor Media and dozens of others. Our publisher relations team is working closely with the very few remaining publishers who require WMA to seek permission to sell their titles in MP3 for library and school lending.

from boingboing.net

Die Podiumsdiskussion “Open Science – Chancen und Herausforderungen der digitalen Wissenschaften”, die am 23.10.2012 an der HU Berlin stattfand wurde vollständig aufgezeichnet. Die Audiodatei ist auf der Webseite zur Veranstaltung abrufbar. An der Diskussion nahmen Christoph Bruch (Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft), Ortwin Dally (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut), Andreas Degkwitz (HU Berlin), Martin Grötschel (Zuse-Institut Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin), Hofmann, Jeanette (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin), Angelika Lex (Elsevier), Anne Lipp (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) und Peter Schirmbacher (HU Berlin).