Author: Paul R. Pival
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Alchemist author increases sales by pirating his own book
Neat stuff! “Paulo Coelho, the best-selling author of “The Alchemist”, is using BitTorrent and other filesharing networks as a way to promote his books. His publishers weren’t too keen on giving away free copies of his books, so he’s taken matters into his own hands. He’s convinced — and rightly so — that letting people…
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An update on the ANTS project
Hey, remember the ANTS screencast-sharing project? I’ve stepped way back from it since assuming my new duties here at the U of C, but it’s still going strong, and has undergone some major changes / improvements. Here’s an update that was sent to the COPPUL Distance Education group: As many of you are…
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Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries and wiki
Just learned that the new ACRL book Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries has an accompanying wiki. And of course Meredith has a website where she constantly refreshes links for her book, Social Software in Libraries. Neat ways to keep traditional print current!
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Bibliography on Mobile Devices in Distance Education
Michele Reid posted the attached bibliography from the Midwinter Discussion Group session to the OFFCAMP list, and it’s reposted here with permission.
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Incorporating Screencasts In Online Teaching
From The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 8, No 3 (2007), ISSN: 1492-3831 – Incorporating Screencasts In Online Teaching by Elaine Peterson. I’m linking to the abstract page instead of the full text because from there you can choose HTML, PDF, or to listen to the article as an mp3,…
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ProQuest Acquires RefWorks
There sure seem to be a log of acquisitions lately! Official PDF version, or: BETHESDA, MD, USA (January 18, 2008) – RefWorks, LLC, the leading provider of a web-based research management, writing, and collaboration tool, has announced that it has been acquired by ProQuest, a Cambridge Information Group company. With over 900 institutions worldwide and…
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Running Meebo as an application (no web browser needed!)
OK gang, the biggest strength of Meebo, that it’s web-based, has also been the biggest strike against it. For those of us who are using it as a service, it’s a bit of a pain to remember to fire it up, and to have the web browser open. Accidentally shut down the page or have…
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How to embed a MeeboMe widget on a Mac desktop
Yesterday I posted a screencast about how to embed a MeeboMe widget right on the desktop using ActiveDesktop. While surfing around to see who else had made use of this, I found a link to a Flickr page from late 2005 where someone was using ActiveDesktop to show their Meebo account, and in the comments…
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Some screencasting news
I’m pleased to see Greg Notess has been posting again at the LibCasting blog. The other day he pointed to FreeScreencast.com, which offers the software and online hosting, much like Jing. I haven’t tried FreeScreencast or TipCam (note, TipCam appears to be dead now – Oct, 2013), which does the exact same thing. There are…
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How to embed a MeeboMe widget on your desktop
Hey, I’m excited about this one! At a meeting yesterday we were considering additional places we could stick our MeeboMe widget (you may recall we’ve had it embedded in our catalogue since the beginning of October, 2007). Someone wondered if we could embed it on the desktop, and I recalled that Microsoft has something called…