Category: Linking
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Website Heatmap
OUseful Info blogs about a neat tool called the Clickdensity heatmap. Check out the neat screenshot, and note that they provide a free trial. I’m passing this one on to our webfolk. Technorati Tags: usability, heatmap
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Listen to why it’s good to give books away
Just finished listening to a short CBC piece in which SciFi author and BoingBoing.net contributor Cory Doctorow ‘splains how much sense it makes for books to be discoverable via Google Book Search and the like, and how he’s more sucessful commercially for having given away copies of his books. He points out that people don’t…
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Is Screencasting coming to SafariU?
I’m recommending another Jon Udell production to you; this time a 43-minute interview with CJ Rayhill of SafariU about their product, and technology in education in general. SafariU is an O’Reilly customized textbook product that allows profs to pick and choose content to create a customized copyright-cleared textbook for sale to students, and that also…
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Keeping in touch with the Big 3 Screencasters
I’m reading Naked Conversations right now, and earlier this week I was thinking how much I appreciate the TechSmith Visual Lounge blog. Once upon a time I had a good relationship with one of the customer service reps at Qarbon, and he kept me updated with what was new with ViewletBuilder, but he’s gone now…
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Jon Udell, God of So Many Things
You’ve probably heard of Jon Udell before, possibly as the guy who built the first Library Lookup bookmarklet, or perhaps as the guy who’s credited with coining the term “screencasting“. Today though, I heart Jon because he built an unofficial RSS feed to receive episodes of This American Life as a podcast. When I moved…
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Huge collection of ebrary screencasts
ebrary has used Camtasia Studio to put together a very comprehensive list of brief screencasts on how to use their product. Nothing too fancy, but it saves me from having to build ’em, so thanks Janet at Ebrary! From their email to customers: ebrary is pleased to announce that we have launched the first version…
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Moving Day: Making the Most of Your Message with RSS and Syndicated Content
Volume 52(2) of Feliciter, the Canadian Library Association’s bi-monthly publication, is a theme issue on Social Software (RSS, Blogs, Etc – Impact on Libraries, Staff and Clients) and was guest-edited by Geoff Harder at the U of Alberta. If you want to check out the entire issue and are a subscriber to Academic Search Premier,…
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Browsing Library Collections: From the Shelf to the Online Catalog
I’ve recently been involved in some planning meetings for our new Campus Calgary Digital Library, and one idea that came up was whether we’d move older materials to storage, and someone mentioned how tough that makes it to browse and thus invite serendipity. I realized (not for the first time) that this is one of…