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Support a publishing innovator by watching TV
I’ve mentioned MCM before. He’s the author of The Pig and the Box, and a true innovator in the world of independent publishing. I’ve been fascinated reading his blog posts over the past year as he explores one interesting idea after another for publishing via crowd sourcing, PDF, print, epub, donations, sponsorship, releasing work under…
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Webcast: Returning the Researcher to the Library: The Summon™ Service in Real Life
Library Journal and Serials Solutions are presenting the fourth and final session in the “Returning the Researcher to the Library” series: The Summon™ Service in Real Life. I’m one of three panelists, joining librarians from Grand Valley State University and Western Michigan University in discussing why we’re exploring the idea of Web-Scale Discovery (that appears…
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Screencasting Review: On the subject of Camtasia for Mac and Screenflow
While I have copies of Camtasia:Mac and iShowU HD and a demo copy of Screenflow, I haven’t made the time to do a comparison of them. John Basile at Scrast.net has taken a fairly comprehensive look at Camtasia:Mac and Screenflow though. No clear winner is the ultimate conclusion (except maybe for the end-user 🙂
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Additional observations about unified discovery services
As Grand Valley State U works towards launching Summon, Laura at Llyfrgellydd posts some additional observations about unified discovery services. I think all her points are valid; well worth the 2-3 minutes it’ll take you to read.
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Tune In September 2: The Google Book Scanning Project–Issues and Updates
Educause Live presents:Topic: The Google Book Scanning Project—Issues and UpdatesDate: September 2, 2009Time: 1:00 p.m. EDT (12:00 p.m. CDT, 11:00 a.m. MDT, 10:00 a.m. PDT). International participants: You may wish to visit this external time-conversion website to calculate the start time in your time zone.Duration: 1 hour For about five years, Google has been scanning…