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Extensive knowledge of the Star Wars film series is a major plus
A job ad for Image Database Administrator, Lucafilm , San Francisco, California was posted to LISJobs a month ago, but was recently forwarded to the Web4Lib list. That might be a cool job!
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DC Public Library launches iPhone app for their catalog
Aaron Schmidt blogs that the DC Public Library iPhone app is now available for download. So I downloaded it and gave it a quick run through. No bells and whistles, but it gets the job done. Seems to only allow keyword searching at the moment – can't search by author, etc. You can place holds…
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Copyright Balance and Fair Use in Networked Learning
Those of you in the US may be interested in this free EDUCAUSE Live session on January 13th: Copyright Balance and Fair Use in Networked Learning: Lessons from Creators’ Codes of Best Practices. Copyright balancing has become a critical issue in the academy as digital practices increasingly have challenged creaky policies and practices. Scholars, academic…
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Jing Pro and Jing Free
Techsmith has just announced a premium version of Jing – Jing Pro. Features include the ability to record using MPEG-4, which means much higher quality (here's a very pretty example – compare that to the last video you saw on YouTube!), smaller video files, the ability to upload directly to Youtube, and the ability to…
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I’m # 51,008 in the Kindle Store!
You may recall that last year I discussed some options I was considering for commercialization of this blog. I have gotten one $25 payment from Newstex in the last year, so my content's obviously trickling out there somehow. Just got a notice that I'm now available in the Amazon Kindle store, where you can now…