Category: Ideas
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Tim says Book Search Should Work Like Web Search
Tim O’Reilly, long a proponent of Google Book Search, has a post in which he laments the fact that books housed in the different book scanning projects (Google Books, OCA, Amazon Search Inside) are not searchable by search engines other than those provided by their hosts. Surely it will only be a matter of time…
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Idea for Screencasting on YouTube
Well I couldn’t get it to work in the 2 minutes I had left at the end of the day to play with it, but YouTube now allows you to record yourself from within YouTube, using your own webcam. So what’s the next obvious choice? Allow you to record your own desktop directly to YouTube! …
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Your own personal repository
So you say you work at a smaller academic institution without an institutional repository, or even in a non-academic setting? But you still publish work related to Library and Information Science? Have I got a site for you! I know I’m not the first to find it, but I haven’t seen it mentioned as much…
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Get paid $100/hour to search Google
Wow, that really sounds like spam, doesn’t it! Hope I don’t end up on blacklists for anyone receiving my posts via email… Anyhoo, I don’t know how to land such a choice gig, but Jon Udell has an interesting post about what goes on in his mind as he works through internet searches that are…
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Camtasia Studio vs. Adobe Captivate
The WebBriefcase Blog has just put up a comparison of Camtasia Studio 4 and Adobe Captivate 2. The author is a long-time Captivate user, and while it seems pretty close, decides in the end to stick with Captivate rather than switch to Camtasia Studio. He found the output formats superior in Camtasia Studio, but the…
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The future of libraries is yours. What are you going to do with it?
At the risk of being part of Brian’s echo chamber, I’m pointing to his recent piece in on LISjobs.com called Librarian As Entrepreneur: A Blueprint For Transforming Our Future. It’s a nice rallying call for what Brian’s calling the Next Now Generation. While this sort of stuff has been said before (I think), it’s good…
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What does a distance MLIS really cost?
A couple of months ago when Walt Crawford put out his Great Middle list of library blogs, I picked a few to watch in a separate folder before fully committing. One of the ones that graduated to my “real” subscription list is OPL Plus, the blog for librarians in one-person libraries, written by Judith Siess. …
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What would you like to know about screencasting?
As I wrap up my final prep for next week’s SirsiDynix Institute, an Introduction to Screencasting, I thought I’d check to see what you thought I should be including. Either because you’re going to attend and want to learn, or if there’s something you think I should be sure to cover, will you let me…