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  • Sharing Files with FileUrls (beta)

    Another possible document delivery service for very small operations.  FileUrls allows you to simply browse to a file on your desktop (250 MB Max), set an expiry date (1-7 days) and choose whether or not to password protect the document.  The file is then uploaded and a URL generated (very much like TinyURL) which you…

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  • A weather report

    It’s been a while since we’ve had a local weather report from the Distant Librarian.  don’t take this as any kind of complaint, ’cause up until about a week ago it’s been positively balmy up here.  This is the place you’re going to want to be when global warming really hits!  But right now, the…

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  • At it again – Common Craft – Blogs in Plain English

    To go along with their other …in plain English series, Common Craft has released a new paperwork video entitled Blogs in Plain English.

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  • NPR on DE

    Rebecca Hedreen points out that NPR is in the middle of a two-part series on online education.  You can listen online if you don’t catch it over the air.

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  • Potentially Interesting article

    Don’t have easy access to this one myself, will probably go through ILL, but it sounds like an interesting article: LIBRARIES, SOCIAL SOFTWARE AND DISTANCE LEARNERS: BLOG IT, TAG IT, SHARE IT!Secker, J; Price, G New Review of Information Networking (ISSN: 1361-4576); Volume 13, No. 1, pp. 39-52; 2007

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