Gorman and Satire

I like satire. I think it can be funny. VERY funny. However, when one claims to have written a satirical piece in one sentence, and in the very same sentence claims to be “no fan of blogs” … then that person’s satire changes, in my mind at least, to a belief they really hold.
Translation? An [...]

Unique way to use flickr - as an online tutorial!

Checkout this flickr collection: Upload Video. It’s a tutorial on uploading video to the Internet Archive, etc… but the cool thing is this: the tutorial is saved on flickr!
It looks like someone turned powerpoint slides/other graphic files into jpgs, and posted them in order in his flickr account - saved as a colleciton. From there, [...]

Public library lends out book-filled iPod Shuffles

Found via the engadget blog, via the jkOnTheRun blog, a story about the South Huntington Public Library in New York lending out iPod Shuffles pre-loaded with audiobooks. That is one extremely hip project!
I know a few mac lovers that might get jealous…

More on Video Podcasting, or Videoblogging

Another one from the comments -
Paul says: “Hi Dave, you might be interested in the links on this post: http://infocult.typepad.com/infocult/2005/02/digital_bicycle.html”
This post leads to some great websites that focus on videoblogging and aggregating those video feeds! The sites mentioned are:

Digital Bycycle - this is a “peercasting” community. Looks cool.
Freevlog - step-by-step instructions for setting up a [...]

Jakob Neilsen isn’t a web designer

From someone’s comments on a previous post -
From Anonymous:
I have found Nielsen to be the most overrated web site design “guru” out there. I read his book “Designing Web Usability” and found it to be pretty far from what I would consider good advice for a web designer, at least in the library world. Maybe [...]

University of Alberta’s RSS Feeds

Geoff Harder posted about the Univeristy of Alberta’s RSS feeds, which connect to various new book lists from their library catalog. That’s wonderful, I thought… and then I looked closer, and realized they’re a SIRSI site (we’re also a SIRSI site).
Now I’m excited. Excited enough to pester Geoff to post an explanation of how they [...]

How about Video Podcasting?

I was just thinking about podcasting (’cause it’s been coming up alot lately in the “li-blogosphere”). And it dawned on me - “well heck David, if you can audio podcast, why can’t you video podcast?”
So I poked around on Google, and believe it or not, that’s the “next big thing” in podcasting (well, at least [...]

Wiki’s mentioned on CNN

The article Tools to ease Web collaboration is up right now at CNN.com, and it’s very cool!
The article is an introduction to Wiki’s and what they can do for your company. Translation? Staff Intranet… wiki’s can be great for that.
Possibly, they could also be used by us librarians for a teens website, where teens ould [...]

Filtering at the library - how it’s going

Update: Skagirlie posted a comment - she says “Yeah, I like that my library blog is blocked at work just because the URL has “girlie” in it. Bess apparently doesn’t like to look at meta tags, or it would know that it’s a library blog, not a “girlie” site.”
That’s what I’m talkin’ about. Her site [...]

Pivot

Pivot looks cool. It’s like WordPress et al, but apparently doesn’t need a back-end database. Hmm… where do the posts go? Not sure. But I’m throwing it out nonetheless.

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