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  • 3 services to monitor website changes w/o RSS

    Here are three free services that will monitor changes to websites and notify you by email when they do change. Watch That Page ChangeDetection.com Follow That Page

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  • Followup on New Media into Old

    Last week I mentioned a couple of interviews that had tweaked my interest in a solution for automatically creating a printed "newspaper" of individual blog postings that I wanted to devote more time to.  Clint Lalonde left a comment suggesting FeedJournal, so I went to take a peek, and it's almost perfect for what I…

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  • That’s Infotainment! – Great screencasting article

    Ellyssa Kroski has an article that 's just been published in School Library Journal titled That's Infotainment, and it provides a really good overview of the current state of screencasting, with the following topics covered: What is screencasting?, Web site tours, Library functions, Software and database training, Slideshow screencasts (slidecasts), Staff training, Student assignments, Hardware,…

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  • FLV Coming Back to Camtasia Studio

    One of the few complaints about the most recent version (6) of Camtasia Studio was the removal of the ability to output content as FLV files.  Well, Techsmith appears to have heard the cry, and will be putting that export feature back in with their next update, due in March.  Nice to have a company…

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  • New media into old

    I just finished listening to episode 64 of CBC’s Spark, and it began with a couple of really interesting interviews with people who are turning new media into old (ie. newspapers or magazines).  Ben Terret and his friend Russell collected their favourite blog posts from 2008 and arranged to have them printed on actual newsprint…

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