Category: Ideas
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My Summer Vacation
Hey, it's the rare and elusive Personal-type post! Yes, my Summer vacation has already come and gone; just got back from a two-week road trip with the family, and thought I'd share some product highlights I you might enjoy. We rented a fully-loaded Ford Taurus Limited rather than take one of our smaller family trucksters.…
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Oooh, shiny! Google background images
If you use the Google.com (not a country-specific) page to search, you can now customize a background image if you're logged in. As you hover over the page you'll see a new link in the lower left, which will allow you pick from some standard pix, or upload one of your own: I think I'm…
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Evidence of price gouging in the Canadian mobile market?
AdMob (recently acquired by Google) has an interesting report out this month in which they compare iPhone and Android unique devices across the world for the month of April, 2010. What *I* found very interesting is that Canada is the only country in the world where there are more iPod Touch users than iPhone users!…
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Weapon of Mass Instruction
I used to have a sticker showing some books with the text "Weapons of Mass Instruction" on my laptop, but I think this example of a Weapon of Mass Instruction is better by far!
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Libraries and Web Archiving
Barbara Fister has an interesting article in Library Journal in which she paints a happier-than-usual picture of what university administrators think of libraries and librarians. That's great, but what jumped out at me was down towards the bottom of the article where Daniel Greenstein, vice provost for academic planning and programs at the University of…
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MURALS – closed-source screencasting?
The other week a colleague pointed me towards a website called MURALS, which appears to be a collection of library-related screencasts you can buy for your library. I have a few problems with the site. There's no information about who's putting these together. Not a huge deal, but it would be nice to know. It's…
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Embedding chat widgets within EBSCO databases
A couple of years ago the U of Calgary was among the first to embed an IM chat widget within its OPAC. What I've really wanted to do since then was also embed it within the bibliographic databases, where students spend even more time. I tried a couple of times with ezproxy's search and replace…