Archive for September, 2005
reddit reminds me of Digg, a social bookmark rating tool. These are always fun to play with and watch (I’ve subscribed to the “hottest” RSS Feed).
Hallie - Updated!
September 30th, 2005For those that always ask for recent photos of Hallie. More here.
JCO Could Win Nobel…
September 30th, 2005Next week, the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announed. There are lots of rumors out there as to who will get the nod and Joyce Carol Oates is apparently on the top of many favorites’ lists.
“Bookmaker Ladbrokes made Adonis the 2-to-1 favorite for the October 6 prize, but some better-known writers, such as [...]
Many Public Libraries in the USA Redesign Their Sites Every Three Years
September 29th, 2005This is interesting. A company interviewed webmasters from 9 public libraries and drew a bunch of conclusions from it. While I haven’t read the report, a larger “n” is probably needed. According to the title, based on these interviews, “Many Public Libraries in the USA Redesign Their Sites Every Three Years, According [...]
Live Journal Schools Directory
September 28th, 2005From the “Why Hasn’t this Been Done Already” department comes the Live Journal Schools Directory. A bunch of LJers in my hometown (link via The Social Software Weblog)
Literature-Map - Grab an Aspirin!
September 28th, 2005This is, um, interesting. Type in your favorite author and a map shows up of other authors that you may be interested in. Click on any author name and that author becomes the center of the map. I just wish the names would stop moving at some point. It gave me [...]
Setting up a Feed in “Google Portal”
September 27th, 2005Here’s something I’ve never seen before. In their wiki, The Library and Information Technology Services part of Vanderbilt University has provided a “How to” to setting up their staff and news feeds in Google Portal, the customized front page. Neat.
From Browsers to Blogs
September 27th, 2005Cindy Chick has a very useful post on using blogs as presentation media. She discusses advantages and disadvantages and links to a presentation that she recently did in Blogger. I’ve been going back and forth on this for a while and I think I’m at the point that I will never present using [...]
LITA Blog Watching
September 27th, 2005Remember to watch the LITA Blog for the ongoings at the LITA Forum next week. Or (duh!), you can subscribe to the feed.
University of Minnesota Libraries go Wiki Wild
September 26th, 2005The University of Minnesota Libraries, home of the famous UThink project, is using a wiki for their “Staff Home Page”. What I love about the wiki is that it is open for all to read, but only available for editing by those with access. So, we can learn from their staff, but not [...]
Using Blogs as a Recuitment Tool
September 26th, 2005Aggie sent me this interesting article today. Ball State University is using “sanctioned” student blogs to get potential freshmen excited about attending:
“Officials say they hope high school students interested in the college of about 17,700 enrollment will track the blogs to learn more about what life on the Muncie campus is really like.
‘Technology [...]
More Feeds from My San Antonio
September 26th, 2005For those that live in the SA area, I’ve just noticed that the My San Antonio RSS page has been updated to include many more feeds than before. Props to the peeps behind this initiative!
Slawesome!
September 25th, 2005Considering I despise e-mail, I obviously can’t give this product rave reviews. But, if I did like e-mail, this would be a pretty neat tool. Called Slawesome, it allows users to send voice and/or video e-mails. I ran a few tests and it worked pretty well (no complaints).
The e-mails can be public [...]
RSSor - Another Taggregator
September 25th, 2005In very very very beta, RSSor is a del.icio.us clone (seriously, look at it!) for feeds. The concept is interesting. Tag a feed and a unique page is created for the content for the feed (ie, the the “page” for Library Stuff content) You can then add blog posts to del.icio.us or [...]
Library Juice Farewell Message
September 22nd, 2005After 8 years, Rory is calling it quits. One of the first e-mail lists that I signed up for was LJ and was intruiged by the content. I always looked forward to receiving it, printing it out, and diving in. It was perfect reference desk reading.
Rory does, however, make an [...]
Library Web Browser Extensions
September 21st, 2005Richard Akerman left a comment on a post that he and a colleague have created a page on the Library Success Wiki on Web Browser Extensions.
Suweeeeeeeeet!
I’m still trying to figure out if Richard was at the CFL conference last week. He must have been because he was blogging it. Richard, why didn’t you [...]
Reflection
September 21st, 2005I’ve been feeling a bit off for the past few days. Nothing big, I think I need a medication adjustment. During the dizzying day I had at work today (seriously dizzy, not crazy busy dizzy, I think it’s a side effect of the meds), I read about the death of Laurel Anne Clyde [...]
What Should I Read Next?
September 21st, 2005I’ll definitely be showing off What Should I Read Next (The good and the bad aspects - not sure what they are yet, but all tools have both) when I do my first ever “Online Readers Advisory” presentation at the 21st Century Literacies conference in November.
From the WSIRN FAQ:
“WSIRN produces recommendations based purely on collective [...]
Planzo et al.
September 20th, 2005When life settles down a bit (This weekend, Hallie is mine - all mine!), I’m going to test out Planzo.com, which is a neat looking AJAX/RSS/Social Software/IM scheduling tool. I’ll report back when I have it filled with stuff. (link via del.icio.us)
Update - Started playing with it! WOW! More next week. I’m [...]
The E-LawLibrary Weblog
September 20th, 2005Wow! How did I miss this blog, which was started in December 2004? Take a look at this post on the Roberts confirmation hearing discusison on legislative history. From the about page:
“My name is Edison Ellenberger, and I am a law librarian at a law firm in Cleveland, Ohio. This weblog [...]
Meebo Adds Jabber and GTalk
September 20th, 2005I’m addicted to Meebo. I have it running all day on Firefox. Today, I read on their blog that they’ve added Jabber and Gtalk implementation. This will be very useful for those that build tools on the Jabber platform.
Essential List and Resources on Firefox Extensions
September 20th, 2005Speaking of Firefox, Lifehack has a list of neat Firefox Extensions (link via populicio.us)
oishii! - Reintroduced
September 20th, 2005Tara re-introduced me to oishii! yesterday. I’ve been pretty bummed that populicio.us isn’t available anymore and oishii is a pretty good substitute (not sure if it’s better, time will tell). After subscribing to the feed (sites that have bookmarked more than 30 times in del.icio.us will be displayed - no repeats which [...]
Feeds for the University of California Press Journals
September 20th, 2005I just got an e-mail from Glen Gillmore at the Universitry of California Press Journals. They are now providing feeds for “all 30 of their core journals”. You can access the feeds at their Library Resource Center page. There is also a feed titled, “News for Librarians”.
The feeds are links to abstracts. [...]
Get RSS Feed, Eat Here…
September 19th, 2005Wow! The Syndication for Higher Ed blog mentions that Allegheny University now has a feed for the daily dining hall menu on Campus. Getting more information out the users. Priceless.
Tara’s Tips With Tara Calishain
September 19th, 2005+ Looking for a lawn mower product manuals - You can find this on Amazon. (cool!)
+ Spoofstick will put a green bar under the address label and will tell you what domain you are on.
+ 10 Nifty things to talk about
1) Findarticles
2) IceRocket - Blog Trend Tool
3) MSN has a new feed syntax (feed:blog) or [...]
Multimedia Search with Gary Price
September 19th, 2005+ Rapidly growing search (audio and video)
+ Searchng the words in the video
1) Closed captioning search
2) Voice Recognition
3) Metadata searching
+ Fee-based are much greater than free-based
+ TVeyes
+ Shadow TV
+ FedNet
+ Critical Mention
+ Stream Sage
+ Nexedia
Free stuff
+ Yahoo Video
+ Yahoo Audio
+ Blinx
+ Speechbot
+ Google Video Search
+ Feedroom
+ Singingfish
+ Can do many of these searched on mobile [...]
Finding the A-Ha! Moments in Search - Mary Ellen Bates
September 19th, 2005+ Brainstorm for alternative terms and definitions
+ Sponsored links may provide ideas to gather data
+ Ready Reference Shelf
+ Use Wikipedia and How Stuff Works.com
+ maybe get leads to associations
+ Last, do a web search
+ Run News searches
+ Use taggings and folksonomies to find information
+ Blog searching can be useful - information on upcoming conferences - [...]
Going Beyond Command Line Searching - Greg Notess
September 19th, 2005Know Command Line Techniques AND Know what new content is available
+ Advanced features that the search engines offer
+ Unique Databases - Who is doing something different and has unique databases
+ Command Line Searches
- Truncation or Stemming or “Wild Card”
- Proximity
+ Truncation - everywhere except at Excelead with *
+ “Run” [...]
White House RSS feeds
September 19th, 2005Peter Scott mentions today that the White House has a bunch of RSS Feeds. I can’t remember if they had all of these in the past, but I’m glad that the White House is working on pushing (pulling?) content to their userbase. I’ve subscribed to a few of them.