The Distant Librarian – Thoughts on technology and libraries

3/15/2017

Shape file and .KML for First People’s Language Map of British Columbia

I spent a couple hours today helping a student look for a shape file of the First People’s Language Map of B. C. (or anything even close to it). No luck, but feel free to chime in if you know of something we missed! Finally while Inspecting and Viewing Source, I tripped across an embedded (or
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Posted Under: Maps, Service, Web/Tech
2/6/2017

Using TheHerdLocker.com to find the *good* content on Twitter

Some time ago I learned about TheHerdlocker.com from a post on ResearchBuzz. Since then, it's grown a bit, and I've been receiving useful weekly updates to a few hashtags I like to follow on the Twitter. In a nutshell, rather than you creating a column within Tweetdeck to collect all mentions of a given hashtag,
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Posted Under: Random Tech Tips, Social Networks, Web/Tech
2/3/2017

Hydrator is my new favourite tool to hydrate tweet-ids (aka so many tools!)

Update – April 18, 2023: From the developer: Twitter's changes to their API which greatly reduce the amount of read-only access means that the Hydrator is no longer a useful application. The application keys, which functioned for the last 7 years, have been rescinded by Twitter. For the past couple of weeks I've been helping
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Posted Under: Data, Scholarship, Social Networks, Web/Tech
2/2/2017

If You See Something, Save Something – 6 Ways to Save Pages In the Wayback Machine

Last month I railed on the new Wayback Machine plugin for Chrome. Well they've been busy, and the current version solves many of my nitpicks on the initial version. Archive.org has a post detailing 6 ways you can save pages to the Wayback Machine, and that Chrome plugin makes the list because it now allows
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Posted Under: Service, Web/Tech
1/16/2017

Here’s how to monitor for disappearing or changing news online

Over the weekend Ed Summers released a tool called diffengine that monitors an RSS feed and then posts captures of any changed text to Twitter. It's meant for monitoring news sites, but could be used for anything that has an RSS feed. Useful for monitoring your news site of choice for disappearing news, but also reports that
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Posted Under: Service, Social Networks, Web/Tech, Weblogs

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Shape file and .KML for First People’s Language Map of British Columbia

Using TheHerdLocker.com to find the *good* content on Twitter

Hydrator is my new favourite tool to hydrate tweet-ids (aka so many tools!)

If You See Something, Save Something – 6 Ways to Save Pages In the Wayback Machine

Here’s how to monitor for disappearing or changing news online

Using TheHerdLocker.com to find the good content on Twitter