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  • What IS criticism?

    Apparently the Annoyed Librarian continues to live up to the name.  I learn this second-hand by reading a post by Laura at Llyfrgellydd, and watching a great vlog post by David Rothman at davidrothman.net.  David, I too encourage you to communicate via this medium in the future – really enjoyed that! I looked up ad…

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  • New site: Mac Screencasting

    A new site all about Mac Screencasting launched today.  Not a whole lot of content up yet, but what’s there is solid and professional; it’s going to be an excellent resource for all screencasters, and Mac screencasters in particular.  Be sure to check out the link to the whitepaper over on the right.  Looking forward…

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  • Apparently people want scholarly articles

    The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a recently-published study that monitored a file-sharing site where almost 5,500 scholarly articles were traded over a 6-month period, “costing journals about $700,000 in that time, or about $1.4-million a year.”  Interestingly, the study is freely available online from The Internet Journal of Medical Informatics.  I call BS…

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  • Signs of the times

    Stephen Abram linked to a couple of interesting graphics.  The first is A Graphic History of Newspaper Circulation Over the Last Two Decades.  No real comment on this other than "Wow!". The second is US Smartphone Ownership Share.  What I found interesting about this one is how starkly it contrasts with what our statistics say…

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  • Screencasting on the Mac – Screenflow 2 vs Camtasia:mac

    Screenflow 2.0 came out earlier this week, so I now have production copies of it and Camtasia:mac.  I hadn't planned to do a head-to-head, but the opportunity arose today, so I took it.  Below you'll find copies of the same screencast I did to introduce Summon to our community.  The first was done in Screenflow,…

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