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 Eh?, Future, Solutions, Tech on Monday, March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Emotiv has created a prototype of a headset that enables limited mind-control over digital objects. According to CNET News, they promise headsets on the market for Christmas. Clearly this technology is still in its baby shoes. Still, it’s intriguing. Who knows, maybe it will take off. After all, only two years ago I would’ve laughed [...]
Posted in Links, Solutions, Tech on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
EveryBlock is now available for New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. In Stephen Francoeur’s words, the site “allows you to search for neighborhood news and data in New York, Chicago, or San Francisco. You can search by address, ZIP code, or neighborhood name. The site pulls together information from a number of sources in a [...]
Posted in Solutions, Tech, Web 2.0 on Sunday, February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Forget PowerPoint: 13 Online Presentation Apps from Mashable. Via Stephen’s Lighthouse.
Forget Excel: 14 Online Spreadsheet Applications and 13 Tools for Tracking Discussion in the Blogosphere from Mashable. Via lo-fi librarian.
The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives. Mostly conventional programs, but includes a few web applictions. Via What [...]
Posted in Language, Personal, Reading, Solutions, tagged introverts on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve long known I’m an introvert. Over the years I’ve developed a way of coping that I’m mostly satisfied with, but wish to improve.
It hasn’t occurred to me, however, to go looking for literature on how other introverts deal with the extroverted world. Not until this spring, that is, when I stumbled on Marcy Phelps’s [...]
Posted in Learning, Libraries, Solutions on Sunday, February 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Handbook for Information Literacy Teaching (HILT), by subject librarians at Cardiff University. Free under a creative commons license, and available both as Word and pdf.
“This Handbook was written by a group of subject librarians at Cardiff University to support their colleagues in Information Services as they developed their information literacy teaching.”
“We are happy for you [...]
Posted in Future, Searching, Solutions, Tech on Friday, February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
According to Read Write Web, the news organization Reuters has stepped into the semantic web arena with Open Calais. The application will perform semantic markup on unstructured HTML, extracts people, places, companies, and events, and annotates the metadata. RWW predicts better searching among other outcomes.
Posted in Searching, Solutions on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Carrot is an open source clustering search engine that pulls results from YahooAPI, GoogleAPI, MSN Search API, eTools Meta Search, Alexa Web Search, PubMed, OpenSearch, Lucene index, and SOLR. You can also choose which search algorithm you want to use (from Show Options).
Via Librarian of Fortune.
Posted in Future, Library 2.0, Solutions on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | No Comments »
A report in Campus Technology recaps the 2008 Horizon Report [pdf] of six key technology areas that will likely have a major influence on education:
“Mobile broadband, collaborative Web technologies, and mashups will all significantly impact education over the next five years, along with “grassroots” video, collective intelligence, and “social operating systems.””
Via The Kept-Up Academic Librarian.
Many [...]
