A much overdue set of links for you….

Boston University launches the first NCAA video podcast (via Podcasting News). You can get the feed on this page.

We read a lot about college libraries getting into social media. Public libraries are also getting into blogging and RSS. Here’s the Madison-Jefferson County Public Library blog, links to RSS feeds at the lower right. There’s definitely a more global story waiting to be written here.

North Carolina State podcasting is taking off.

Chicago Tribune acknowledges the trend in blogging in the classroom. Unlike most MSM pieces on the subject, this one actually includes links to education bloggers and sites that can help people get started blogging. Nicely done.

Take a look at some short video interviews with speakers and attendees from this month’s New Communications Forum. Start with the Shel Israel interview (link goes to the Ourmedia.org page with the embedded player) and work your way through the other six, which are linked at the bottom of the page.

Kaplan has launched a series of podcasts. We’ve been doing test prep and college prep podcasts for more than a year.

A nice descriptive write-up, with specific how-to’s, on Consumer Idealized Design, which is based on the principles of idealized design first set forth by Russell Ackoff. It’s a longer article, but worth the read, particularly for those of us trying to figure out what the new web world means for business.

Librarystuff.net mentions that the University of Pennsylvania library is supporting catalog item tagging.