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I have to go to the Euphamism
My colleague Margy keeps a blog for students in a Journalism class she teaches, and just posted about a piece in The Globe and Mail about an author who got nailed for plagiarism, though the admission is only that his book contains “elements [that] . . . closely resemble or are indistinguishable from passages”… I…
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OOF! POW!!! Captain Copyright is dead!
Via Michael Geist’s blog, Captain Copyright is no more. Back in August 2006, just before the CC site was taken down, the Canadian Library Association had “insisted” upon this action. On the former lair of The Captain one will now find the following lament, “We truly hope that there will come a time when the…
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Library Videos
My Groundhog’s Day resolution was to clear out some of this stuff I’ve been wanting to blog for a week or two. Stephen Abram mentions that InfoToday is accepting nominations for the InfoTubey Awards: “InfoTubies recognize those libraries or individuals who have created YouTube library-related productions that promote a library, or library services, or enhance…
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Huge list of Web Presentation Tools (ppt alternatives)
Read in passing earlier today that Google may be readying a PPT alternative, but in the meantime if you don’t care for the way PPT translates to the web, here are a gazillion alternatives for publishing presentations to the web. OK, it’s probably only a couple dozen; I was too lazy to count. "The key…
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DDR coming to the Wii
For what seems like years to me, cool geeky librarians have talked about Dance Dance Revolution and how much fun it is. As Aaron pointed out when he introduced me at Internet Librarian last year, I have never had the pleasure of playing DDR, and was a little disappointed when I decided to get a…
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