I visited Stonehenge this morning to watch the winter solstice sunrise. English Heritage opened the monument for a couple of hours, and a few hundred people came up to celebrate, wander, and absorb the atmosphere. It was a bit foggy, and it wasn’t until about 20 minutes or so after sunrise that we first got [...]
Archive | December, 2005
Time Team's Phil Harding does a podcast!
The latest edition of Archaeocast, the archaeology podcast from Wessex Archaeology, features Phil Harding, an archaeologist famous for his role on Channel 4′s “Time Team” TV archaeology programme. Phil is an archaeologist for Wessex Archaeology in Salisbury when he’s not filming for Time Team. With a growing presence of computer use in archaeology, Phil agreed [...]
Archaeology Photoshop Contest
Worth1000 are running a Photoshop competition entitled “Archaeology Anomolies“. In this contest you will create a hoax archaeological discovery (i.e. Atlantis, a 2,000 year-old Coca-Cola can or a giant’s skull). Be open minded, there are many mysteries buried beneath the earth. The rules of this game are thus: You are to create an archaeological hoax. [...]
Podzinger: Searching Podcast Content
I have just found out about Podzinger, a new service that utilises voice recognition technologies to index the actual audio content of podcasts. It essentially transcribes your podcast, which is amazing. Their search interface is simple and uncluttered, and search results allow you to listen to the podcast right on the page. They are even [...]
