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  • Idea for Screencasting on YouTube

    Well I couldn’t get it to work in the 2 minutes I had left at the end of the day to play with it, but YouTube now allows you to record yourself from within YouTube, using your own webcam.  So what’s the next obvious choice?  Allow you to record your own desktop directly to YouTube! …

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  • Your own personal repository

    So you say you work at a smaller academic institution without an institutional repository, or even in a non-academic setting?  But you still publish work related to Library and Information Science?  Have I got a site for you!  I know I’m not the first to find it, but I haven’t seen it mentioned as much…

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  • The Ubiquitous Librarian questions his ubiquitousness

    Bummer of a week for the birthday boy (I know this from his Facebook account)!  Brian Mathews explains in his most recent post how everything he knew is wrong (or at least everything he’s been suggesting you do with Facebook is wrong), but while he’s down, he’s not yet out.  Stay tuned to see where…

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  • Get paid $100/hour to search Google

    Wow, that really sounds like spam, doesn’t it!  Hope I don’t end up on blacklists for anyone receiving my posts via email… Anyhoo, I don’t know how to land such a choice gig, but Jon Udell has an interesting post about what goes on in his mind as he works through internet searches that are…

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  • Citation Managers Galore

    We have the web-based RefWorks here at the U of C, and are in the middle of a big marketing campaign for it.  It’s pretty slick, but if you don’t have it at your school (or, gasp! don’t go to school), what are you to do?  Lorcan Dempsy points to a long list of suggestions…

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