One of the main reasons I bought an iPhone was because I figured I’d be able (eventually) to listen to my favorite Buenos Aires-based radio stations, or any others for that matter. Still surprised Apple has restricted the iPhone’s Safari by not providing access to video, Flash, certain kinds of audio, etc. In any case, …

the first iPhone app I’ve actually purchased: WunderRadio. Via radiotime.com, they stream a large number of web-based radio stations. I get my local Michigan Radio and now I can listen to La2×4, New Orleans’ WWOZ, and any number of radio stations around the world.

Occasional breaks in the stream due mostly to moving out of range of a WiFi and switching to 3G, but hey, I get to listen to a porteño brand of castellano whenever I want.

Been thinking for some time now about an open source project that would allow holders of linguistic corpora to relatively easily put up a web app that allows the world to search them. You know, using Lucene, Spring MVC, TEI.2, stuff like that.

Have recently started in on the work in my “spare time.” Using as sample data some files from the British Academic Written English (BAWE) Corpus. We’ll see how it goes.

Peter Brantley at Berkeley sent an email titled “an exchange on Google” to the members of the Digital Library Federation:

I was permitted to reproduce an incredibly penetrating and insightful exchange on the merits of Google book search by paul duguid and patrick leary.

here -

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/the_google_exch.html

yours -

I immediately had to email my old colleagues at the University of Michigan’s Digital Library:

This exchange is “incredibly penetrating and insightful”? And, as it says on the web page, “seminal”?

Sounds like all the conversations we had for months and months on the 3rd floor [of the Hatcher Library, home of UMDL]. Breadth vs depth, quantity and access vs quality. I get it. I mean, I got that a long time ago.

Am I missing something?

At least he mentions Perry Willett and his colleagues. You go, guys and girls.

I wrote the first implementation of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English web application in 2001 while working for the University of Michigan’s Digital Library. I just recently finished the rewrite of the application for a new search engine. See the MICASE page and history for some information.