Category: Ideas
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Creating RSS feeds where none exist
Is there something magic about the number 20? Why don’t individual wiki pages offer RSS feeds? These are two of the questions I’ve been forced to ponder this week. Here’s my story. A month ago I blogged about the launch of the COPPUL Animated Tutorial Sharing (ANTS) Project. We’re using a wiki (MediaWiki) to track…
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Jon Udell’s Screencasting Advice
Jon Udell, who coined the term screencasting, has some advice for those who are using Camtasia Studio to precisely edit narrated video. Technorati Tags: screencasting
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Access Copyright And Creative Commons Canada Launch Public Domain Registry
As brought to my attention by colleagues here, here and here, Access Copyright (our version of the US Copyright Clearance Center) and Creative Commons Canada have announced a partnership to establish a public domain registry. They’re going to use MediaWiki to "create an online, globally searchable catalogue of published works that are in the Canadian…
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Window of Opportunity for DE Librarians?
The New York Times reports that “Colleges will no longer be required to deliver at least half their courses on a campus instead of online to qualify for federal student aid.” Wonder how many new DE Librarian positions will be created to help with the expected increase in distance education programs across the nation? This…
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Unyte has some real potential!
Over the past couple of days I’ve had a chance to briefly try out a couple of co-browsing tools I mentioned last Friday. Vyew doesn’t look like it’ll be of use to me – no opportunity for co-browsing that I can see – it just allows me to share a whiteboard and files, but Unyte…
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Online Degree Study – Call for Participation
LISNews reports that Kathryn Kennedy at the University of Florida is seeking participants for a survey on "perceptions and prejudices of online degrees in the hiring process in academic libraries. The papers that we have seen in publication about this subject have been broad, covering employment in academic libraries but also in public libraries and…
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TechSmith Astoria Project (beta)
TechSmith, makers of screencasting software Camtasia Studio, is looking for beta testers for a new product that appears to be geared towards remote usability testing, but I signed up for the beta ’cause I want to see how easy it is to use with remote library database users – might be a useful tool for…
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HarperCollins online
Two months ago I posted about how HarperCollins was going to go it alone, scanning their own titles and making them available to search engines, but keeping the content themselves instead of having Google or Yahoo scan the books. The first title in this experiment seems to have hit the web – The aptly titled,…
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Meredith rolls another wiki – Computers in Libraries 2006
Meredith Farkas, who first appeared on many radar screens last year after starting up the first Unofficial ALA Conference Wiki, has produced another conference-related wiki, this time for Computers in Libraries, 2006, held in the DC area March 22-24. She’s investing just a little less of her soul in this one, opting for a PBWiki…
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The Search
I’ve been home sick much of this week, and the only good thing to come of it is that I finally had enough time to finish John Battelle’s book The Search, which is about web searching in general, but mostly about Google. I quite enjoyed it; lots of interesting background on the evolution of search…