Posted in Blogging, Clever, Links, Publishing, Solutions, Web 2.0 on Saturday, April 5, 2008 | No Comments »
A few links on how to improve ur Internets:
14 “Other” Ways to Use RSS Feeds from makeuseof.com lists less talked about services like sending any RSS updates to your email and converting news feeds to speech.
10 Smart Hacks for Google Reader from Lifehack. Via LibrarianInBlack. [...]
Posted in Blogging, People, Solutions, tagged introverts on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
A Guide For The Introverted Blogger by Micah Sparacio. The first in series of entries about introvert-specific blogging - unfortunately, as far as I can tell, this promise remains unfulfilled after more than a year. The gold nugget among the slightly unpolished entry is this:
“Introverts usually bring a long term vision to their blogging. They [...]
Posted in Blogging, Eh?, Searching on Sunday, March 16, 2008 | No Comments »
…or they may come back to haunt you. This is even more true in the Internet age.
Lately, on the basis of a very unscientific sampling, the most popular search engine terms people use to get to this blog are “why is carrot good for u”, “carrot is good for”, “what is carrot good for”, and [...]
Posted in Blogging, Images, Language, Reference on Saturday, February 2, 2008 | No Comments »
BlewSpace offers a nice, visual way to locate bloggers.
Via LibrarianInBlack.
The Europa Polyglotta map, published in mid-1700s, tries a completely different kind and even more fascinating mapping (for us linguists, at any rate):
“to show the concordances and differences between all the languages spoken in Europe by spelling out the beginning of the Lord’s Prayer [...]
Posted in Blogging, Links, Web 2.0 on Friday, November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been too busy to blog for working on my seminar research and paper, internship, and volunteer library project for the American-Sscandinavian Foundation. At the end of the day, my energy goes to rewinding so I can eventually finish the paper. Here’s an attempt to keep up, though.
A Drive: online storage (first 50 GB are [...]
Posted in Blogging, Language, Usability on Thursday, November 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Apparently the reading level of this blog is high-school:
I wonder how they determine it, though. Vocabulary?
Via Stephen’s Lighthouse. Like he notes, matching your language to your target audience is good. I’m just not convinced this is the tool for it.
Posted in Blogging, Library 2.0, Web 2.0 on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
This October, the ranking of top 10 social networking or blogging sites in the U.S. looks like this:
1. MySpace
2. Facebook
3. Classmates Online
4. Windows Live Spaces
5. AOL Hometwon
6. Reunion.com
7. LinkedIn
8. AOL People Connection
9. Club Penguin
10. Buzznet
I’ve only ever heard of 1, 2, and 7; my husband thinks 9 is for kids. Are we hermits or what!? [...]
Posted in Blogging, Eh? on Friday, September 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Found via LibrarianInBlack:
The results of Meredith Farkas’s 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogoshpere: Demographics are out. I encourage you to read her comments. What struck me was that there were two questions out of 11 that a significant number of respondents skipped. These asked about any other advanced degrees the respondents had (question 6) and the [...]
Posted in Blogging, Studies on Monday, August 6, 2007 | No Comments »
On Tuesday in Communication class, we had a very interesting discussion about blogs. Most of the class didn’t seem too taken with them. Someone even remarked having read somewhere that “blogs are written by people with nothing to say and read by people with nothing to do.” I felt a little out of place with [...]
Posted in Blogging on Wednesday, July 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Trying out this blog provider. We’ll see how well I’ll like the functionality.
Edit: Transferred my old posts here from the previous provider.
