Author: Paul R. Pival
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Google gets it… academic affiliation option
Hey, Google implemented my idea to allow students to indicate an affiliation with an academic institution! No, there’s been no acknowledgment from them, and yeah, I suppose it’s possible they thought of this all by themselves, but I’d like to think otherwise 🙂 I just emailed them to see if they’d put the U of…
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Blogs and podcasts: Educause shows the way?
I’ve mentioned podcasts a few times in the past six months. For a little while I’ve been toying with the idea of recording a series of interviews with distance students and making them available as a podcast, but I don’t think I’m going to have the time, so you can do it. 🙂 Anyway, as…
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RSS ROCKS! — The Learning Web – Central
Was just exchanging email with Shelly in Texas and noticed she had recently blogged about a novel implementation of the Chatango tool I mentioned way back in August. What she’s done is instead of having that application appear on her library service page, she’s integrated it into WebCT, so it appears right in front of…
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Mirrorworld – Guerrillas in the mist
Last year I read William Gibson’s latest novel, Pattern Recognition. In it, the protagonist travels from the US to London, and describes the city as a mirrorworld, in that it’s pretty much the same as back home, but some things are just a little bit off; just slightly different to make her feel as though…
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Always Fresh: Fast Content for Library Websites with Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
More stuff related to blended librarianship – if you follow the link to the ppt presentation you’ll see how USask has fed their RSS feed to the front page of their library site as a "What’s New" section, and there’s also a screenshot of that same feed fed into their campus portal using the same…
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Welcome to Gmail
I think Gmail must be close to opening to the general public ’cause all of a sudden I have 50 invites to give away, and I’ve heard many others have a lot too. If you don’t yet have a Gmail account and you’d like one, send me an email at ppival@gmail.com and you shall have…
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Low Threshold Applications (LTA)
I ran across this site long ago, and could never get the RSS feed to display in my aggregator of choice, so had kind of forgotten about it. They just moved to a new site, and the RSS feed works fine for me now, so now I’ll recommend it to you! A Low Threshold Application …
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ViewletBuilder price drop
Last month in my comparison of ViewletBuilder Pro to Captivate I quoted an educational price of $399 for ViewletBuilder Pro. Today comes word that they’ve dropped the price of the Pro version to $299 US, and while I have no proof of this, in the past they’ve offered an educational discount of up to 50%,…
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Call for contributors – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning
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Hello reader! (I’m kidding, I know there are at least three of you out there!) I’m looking for your help. I recently agreed to assume the editorship of the eServices in Libraries column for the Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, and I’m looking for contributors for the column. I have several…
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brief jybe update – good customer service
Just wanted to let you know that I posted a link to yesterday’s post about our jybe test in the jybe support forums, and within a couple of hours got an email from Brian at the company asking me if we could run through the same scenerios so he could see what was happening. We…