Author: Paul R. Pival
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Free access to articles on MOOCs, Librarianship, and the Future of Education
Want to brush up on MOOCs and Librarianship? Until September 30, 2014, Routledge is pleased to offer the Library & Information Science community free access to a collection of articles highlighting MOOCs and librarianship. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are free, online classes designed to provide university-level education to a large number of students. As MOOCs…
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Five Best Desktop Microphones
I've long maintained that one very important, yet often overlooked component of good screencasting is a good microphone. My current rig is the Samson CO1U, but it didn't even make the list of Lifehacker's list of contenders for Five Best Desktop Microphones. Check 'em out, and if you're in the market, pick one up –…
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Typepad FINALLY has a responsive design template!
One of the few hassles of using a hosted service for this blog is that, especially unless I want to pay for the top-tier of services, most of which I don't need, I'm mostly at the whim of Typepad for styles and overall themes. A couple of years ago I asked about a mobile-friendly theme,…
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Add-ons for Google Drive
Yesterday Google launched add-ons for Google Drive, suddenly making their online office product an awful lot more extensible. Lifehacker has a listing of some good tools to get you started, including information on how to create your own add-on, courtesty of Digital Inspiration. Some of the existing add-ons that might be useful for libraries include…
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Dale Askey Recipient of the 2014 CLA Award for the Advancement of Intellectual Freedom in Canada
You may remember Dale Askey from such posts as Edwin Mellen Press files lawsuit against academic librarian, Minor updates on the Edwin Mellen lawsuit, and ONE lawsuit dropped by Edwin Mellen Press, but Askey is still being sued personally #FreeDaleAskey. All's been quiet in public on that whole fiasco as far as I can tell,…
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Elsevier opens its papers to text-mining
As reported in Nature, Elsevier has opened its papers to text-mining, though with a few restrictions that rankle some. I wonder if there are text mining opportunities outside biology? Certainly in the humanities, but that’s not Elsevier’s forte, methinks. Posted with Blogsy
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Adobe backs down: We Didn’t Mean to Use DRM to Break Your eBook Readers
A quick follow up from yesterday’s post, again from The Digital Reader, in which Adobe smartly reverses course and will not cause many loser devices to stop working with their DRM after all. Of course, DRM still sucks. Posted with Blogsy
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How do they do that? (WordPress / Drupal)
From time to time I find myself wondering what module a given Drupal site uses to perform some nifty action or another. A while back I found a tool that helps with that spy work for WordPress called simply What WordPress Theme is that? And then I finally found Drupal X-Ray, which does the same…