Tracking SXSW with Netvibes

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SXSW is this week! For those of you not familiar with SXSW, it’s a very cool “content” conference. It used to be pretty much just focused on music, but in recent years it’s also included film and “interactive” tracks. The Interactive track is the cool one - it’s all about techie web 2.0 [...]

Library Catalog Usability and a Test of CamStudio

I am playing with CamStudio, and needed to create a short screencast, so…
At the same time, I was looking at Sirsi/Dynix Horizon sites, and found something slightly amusing (to me, anyway) and thought I’d share.
Click the image to the right to watch the video (here’s the .mov version too, if the m4v version doesn’t work [...]

More Things Libraries Can Do With Videoblogs

I’m working on a videoblog presentation I’ll be giving this fall, and discovered this cool list of “common genres” of videoblogs on Wikipedia. Here’s Wikipedia’s list and their definition of each videoblog genre, followed by my ideas for those videoblog genres in a library setting.Personal - Vlogs documenting the author’s life, the recounting stories from [...]

David’s First Experiment with Screencasting

I’ve wanted to play around with screencasting for awhile now, and recently when looking at job ads, it dawned on me - why not make a screencast of some bad website usability? That way, I can test out screencasting and at the same time, provide something marginally usaful to my blog, too.
So… here it is. [...]