Library Stuff

From Library Boy (amazing blog – subscribe to it!) comes word that Justia, the company behind Blawgsearch, has come out with Blawgs.fm, a directory and search engine for legal-related podcasts.

I’ve been thinking about stats lately and whether or not I should care about how many people read LS. If I do care (and I think I do), Steve Rubel made my day with a blog post about Quantcast a traffic tool:

“The methodology is stronger on Quantcast because they qualify publishers and they don’t just rely on a silly toolbar. They work with advertisers, publishers, ISPs and advertising networks to get hard data on millions of Web sites.

The gang at Quantcast has added added a bunch of new goodies, including comparative charting, traffic trends and siteographics that tell you what similar sites people in their panel are visiting.”

The Quantcast profile on my blog looks like this:

I’m definitely going to play with this more.

Mashable mentions today that Books On Campus is now using the Facebook API to enable students to exchange books at colleges.

Some great stuff from The “M” Word today.

First, two commercials from the Lexington Public LibrarY:

Second, a neat marketing video from The Fulton County Public Library:

Very cool!

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Originally uploaded by azstudent.

I wish I was going to ALA so that I could get a copy of this book. There is a site up with some information, but I’ll be tracking it for more.

Mr. Arrington blogs:

“I can’t believe blogging hasn’t driven me to drink yet”

After months of communicating with Mike last year, we finally met up at a conference in San Fransisco. He came up to me and introduced himself while I was sitting at the PubSub booth. Great guy.

Hang in there buddy. Everything will work itself out.

I linkblogged Hictu last night but am more excited about the service after reading this post:

“Hictu! is a Web application that allows you to handle your contacts in a more efficient way, and helps you finding the best way to communicate. Nothing to download: just login, wherever you are, and use it. For free!

Something that you already know? I don’t think so. Hictu! is the only one which makes an aggregation among several different sources of availability information of your contacts, and provides you with a global view.”

Hictu is going to rock!

There’s an interesting piece in the Bradenton Herald today about the decision of a local library to block MySpace.

Via Mashable!, I learned that Shelfari has launched their widgets feature (which they mentioned in a 11/15 blog post). They are going to have to continue to release cool stuff like this to compete with LibraryThing.

On a related note, check out this (yet another) compare and contast of cataloging tools (Shelafri is not included). New to me are Readerware and Collectorz. It may have been more helpful if the desktop tools were separated from the web tools.

So, check out Scenemarker. From the press release”:

“Gotuit Media, a digital media company delivering advanced on-demand video products to broadband, mobile, and cable, today announced the expansion of its online video portal www.gotuit.com with the introduction of SceneMaker, the industry’s first social video tagging application. SceneMaker enables consumers to define and tag specific scenes found inside videos posted on popular hosting sites such as YouTube and Metacafe. Visitors to Gotuit.com can now find precisely the moments they want across both user-generated and professional content — positioning Gotuit beyond the capabilities of current online video offerings.”

Now THAT is useful. (Via Lifehacker)