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 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 Tech, Web 2.0 on Sunday, February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
The article 11 Things to Know About the Sematic Web from ReadWriteWeb will not tell you everything you need to know. It will, however, give you some basics.
Via Stephen’s Lighthouse.
Posted in Academic, Learning, Tech, Web 2.0 on Monday, February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Europeana is a portal-in-progress for European cultural heritage, with a planned launch in November 2008. For now, you can see the quick video intro (from the current main page) or the lengthy site demo. More information is available in the press release:
“Van Gogh’s down at heel boots were the first thing to appear on the [...]
Posted in Design, Learning, Links, Web 2.0 on Saturday, February 16, 2008 | No Comments »
A Quick Guide to Website Design by Ellyssa Kroski includes links to free website templates, site builders, widgets, images, and analytics tools.
The Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet: Top 100 Lists of Web Development Cheat Sheets includes links to searching tips and improving your Firefox or Google skills. Simple Spark offers a wide collection of web apps. [...]
Posted in Library 2.0, Solutions, Web 2.0 on Monday, January 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Now that I have a brand new Facebook profile, I checked out the Top Ten Facebook Apps for Librarians Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 by iLibrarian (Ellyssa Kroski). For libraries (and librarians) who want to be where their users are and increase their Facebook appeal, these apps are just the thing.
Via What I Learned [...]
Posted in Conferences, Future, Library 2.0, Tech, Web 2.0 on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 | No Comments »
LibrarianInBlack links to the handy guide for conference bloggers by Ethan Zuckerman and Bruno Giussani. (I certainly could’ve used this at the IL2007!)
Ten things that will change your future lists technologies that are likely to be influential. I was aware of the Seti@home project, microblogging (Twitter, Jaiku etc.), and One laptop per child; the others [...]
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 Library 2.0, Links, Service, Solutions, Tech, Web 2.0 on Saturday, November 17, 2007 | No Comments »
iLibrarian has made three winderful pages of Firefox add-ons that are useful for librarians. I learned more than I anticipated. (Did you know there are 250 downloadable Firefox themes?) Part three isn’t perhaps as diverse as one and two, but all are worth a look.
40 Useful Firefox Add-ons for Librarians Part 1, Part 2 and [...]
Posted in Studies, Web 2.0 on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
I participated in my first web conference yesterday. It was an exciting experience! There were no technical problems, and the presenter clearly understood the limitations of the medium. Definitely something to try again.
I also e-mailed selected libraries an invitation to participate in a reclassification survey for my Seminar & Practicum class. I used SurveyMonkey to [...]
