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  • Update on Camtasia Studio for the Mac

    Betsy Weber has just posted a 5-minute interview with Troy Stein, Camtasia Studio product manager in which he provides some details on how the Mac version of Camtasia Studio is coming along. Some relevant details: it’s being written completely for the Mac – not just porting the Windows version over. Private beta (pick me please!)…

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  • Help the Australians OCR their newspapers

    On 25 July the Australian Newspapers Beta service was launched to the public. The Beta service contains 70,000 newspaper pages from 1803 onwards and additional pages are being added each week. The Library welcomes feedback on the service, and will continue development of the Beta service over the next few months. 1 .2 million pages…

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  • Counterintuitive research on how online articles are cited.

    The July 18 issue of Science has an interesting article titled Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship, by James A. Evans, a sociologist at the University of Chicago (Science 18 July 2008: Vol. 321. no. 5887, pp. 395 – 399 DOI: 10.1126/science.1150473). I’ve seen research or statistics (note to self – go…

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  • $250 PBwiki account available to librarians and teachers for free!

    The Krafty Librarian blogs that PBwiki is having a Back to School Challenge which will give you, librarian or educator, a free one-year premium PBwiki account ($250 value). What’s that premium account get you over the free free account? I’m not sure since I couldn’t find a page discussing premium accounts for educators, but here’s…

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  • Rocking out in the library

    My Uncle found and sent this one to me – that’s one happy library user!

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