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  • Viddler – video hosting and quite a bit more…

    I’m increasingly frustrated by the crappy compression YouTube uses – that’s what makes everything so fuzzy when you upload something.  Since YouTube is so popular it seems unlikely to be unseated as The Place To Stick Your Videos any time soon, but it’s neat to see who’s out there trying to innovate. Today I found…

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  • Shared Browsing in Meebo

    Sarah at LibrarianInBlack points out that the new chat rooms launched by Meebo this week can in fact be used as a rudimentary shared browsing tool.  I tried it and she’s right – it’s better than nothing.  What is nice is that it’ll work when you’re on Meebo and your patron’s on a native client…

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  • Two more screen sharing tools

    I’ve had each of these on my "to-try" pile for a week and haven’t gotten around to it, but they each look promising and you might want to give them a go.  Both offer web-based cross-platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) compatibility.  Both appear to be free. LiveLook – http://www.livelook.net/ Easy as 1-2-3(1) Click "Show My Screen"…

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  • 7 Things You Should Know About RSS

    Another in a long line of shorties but goodies, Educause recently released 7 Things You Should Know About RSS. Useful for explaining how RSS is used especially in higher education, I learned about a new-to-me resource maintained by Peterson’s: College and University Feed Directory.  It has, amongst the other categories, links for Libraries – General,…

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  • Cute Movie about Plagiarism

    The Chronicle points to Rutgers University’s 4-part flash animated video explaining plagiarism.  It’s cute.  I only won 4 million guacamoles though! Technorati Tags: plagiarism

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