Gmail Invites

Like everyone else with a gmail account, I have 50 Gmail invites to give away. So if someone wants a gmail email account, email me (davidleeking [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com).

Cool FREE Image Editors

From theofficeweblog: here are four alternatives to programs like Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop. The nice part? They’re free!

Photofiltre
Paint.NET
IrfanView
The GIMP

Try em out!

Playing with Google Maps

Trying out Google Maps. It’s very cool! I tried finding my home address - found it just fine. Then I tried my library.
First, I typed in “kansas city public library.” It did fine - found all but one of our branches, and found our old location for the main library. It also lumped in North [...]

One more on Podcasting

Greg pointed out (thanks, Greg! I’m still learning…) that I didn’t quite create a podcast - there’s one more step involved. Apparently, with Blogger (my blog is hosted on Blogger), the RSS file Blogger spews forth is missing the essential ingredient that makes true podcasting work… and that’s an RSS 2.0 feed with enclosure tags [...]

Unwanted Social Networking

I was chatting with Steven Cohen today, and he suggested something that I asked him about would make a good post. I had actually been thinking about posting it… so I thought “what the heck. If he found it interesting, probably others would, too.”
I asked Steven if he had been “skyped” lately… meaning this. I [...]

What the… David’s Done a Podcast!

Welcome to the one and [probably] only podcast on Dave’s Blog. I was fiddling around with my Blogger profile, and noticed something about Audio Clips - there’s a text box named “Audio Clip URL,” and some accompanying text - “Find out how to get free Audio Clips.”
So I clicked it, and found a nifty free [...]

The biggest web design mistakes in 2004

This is a great post: Web Pages That Suck presents the biggest web design mistakes in 2004. It’s funny, but it also mentions some good stuff in the process. here’s the list:
1. Believing people care about you and your web site: A website is about customer’s needs… not staff’s needs.
2. A man from Mars can’t [...]

Update on KCResearch - a cool project my library is working on

KCResearch now has a live URL…. www.kcresearch.org. You can read about our project, find out who is partnering with us, etc. This site will eventually include the search portal as well - we just started meeting with fretwell-downing about implementing their c-portal product for this project - it’s gonna be VERY COOL.

Article Published about Kansas City Public Library’s Subject Guides

I have an article in February’s Computers in Libraries magazine about Kansas City Public Library’s new Subject Guide, topic-driven content push.
Here’s the blurb from InfoToday:
Little Boy Blue Goes High-Tech: Providing Customers with Topic-Driven Content
“Looking for a way to organize your Web links to maximize patron usage and minimize staff time? This article tells how the [...]

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