Category: Ideas
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Now THIS is how to promote your collaboration suite!
Wimba, one of several collaboration suites (like WebEx, DimDim, or Elluminate), may have just stumbled upon a winning way to get people to try their product: make it entertaining! Their next open meeting is called What to Expect When We’re Exploding: Different Religions’ Beliefs about the End-Times March 5, 2009 12:00 pm MST Presenter: Rob Kutner, The…
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Wowbrary Notifies You of New Library Books, Movies or Music
Lifehacker points to a service called Wowbrary, which, regularly informs you by email and/or RSS about your chosen public library’s newest books, movies and music. We make it easy for you to browse through the latest additions and place a hold on a new title. This is a free user service supported by grants, donations,…
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“I want people to read my stuff”
I recently started reading the blog of the author (MCM) of The Pig and the Box (see my post from last week). He sells that title as a printed book, and as an ebook, but he also makes it available for free to download as a PDF from his website. Today he blogged about why…
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Magic Sharing Box – USE IT!
Wow, hard to believe it was 2.5 years ago that I wrote about The Pig and the Box! Surely you remember the story of the pig named Pig who finds a magic box that can replicate anything? Well this kids book about the folly of Digital Rights Management (aka DRM) is being reprinted (here’s the…
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New media into old
I just finished listening to episode 64 of CBC’s Spark, and it began with a couple of really interesting interviews with people who are turning new media into old (ie. newspapers or magazines). Ben Terret and his friend Russell collected their favourite blog posts from 2008 and arranged to have them printed on actual newsprint…
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Is 2009 the year of the m-library?
I'm going out on a limb to say it's so. Here are my observations so far this year: DC Public Library launch of the first library iPhone application. 2nd m-libraries conference coming up later this year. The just-released 2009 Horizon Report suggests that mobile devices are the biggest thing to pay attention to first, with…
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Hot or Not Librarians
Ha! My Google rank's going to go up with a headline like that! Dave Pattern of the University of Huddersfield recently launched a new library blog-monitoring tool called HotStuff 2.0. HotStuff 2.0 monitors the RSS feeds of over 800 library related blogs, and analyzes the content in an attempt to discover new and/or interesting topics… …
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Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning Content
EDUCAUSE Live is offering a free one-hour presentation titled Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning Content. Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Mark Marino and Susan Metros, and the topic will be “Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning Content.” Educators have been searching for ways…
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Google Prefs for Mobile Devices and XHTML
I'm on the Google Preference page from time to time, and noticed something new today. Google now allows you to output search results in HTML (default), XHTML or for PDAs! Or does it? I just went back to grab a screenshot of what the different outputs would look like, and the setting is gone. Weird.…