Category: Miscellaneous
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I’m # 51,008 in the Kindle Store!
You may recall that last year I discussed some options I was considering for commercialization of this blog. I have gotten one $25 payment from Newstex in the last year, so my content's obviously trickling out there somehow. Just got a notice that I'm now available in the Amazon Kindle store, where you can now…
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3.94 million online students in the US
So says the most recent Sloan-C publication, Staying the Course: Online Education in the United States, 2008 (28 page PDF). Lots of good general statistics (how many, which programs, drivers of distance ed, etc.) but not a single mention of libraries.
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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.…
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The Annoyed Librarian goes for World Domination
I don’t follow the Annoyed Librarian, and I didn’t pay much attention when it was announced that Library Journal was paying him/her to move his/her blog over there. But holy cow, now the AL has shown up as the author of every article in a “special issue” of the Journal of Access Services! (volume 5,…
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Learning where the money went
Spent my drive up to Edmonton for Netspeed listening to episodes of the new NPR podcast Planet Money. Fascinating stuff. Kinda makes me wish I hadn't taken my final undergraduate semester's Economics class as a pass/fail option. Since it was P/F, and my last semester, and a 3-hour course to boot, I ended up playing…
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My secret career as a music critic of albums for kids
Back in July I posted a PSA entitled Road trip survival – children’s music you’ll atually enjoy too! As a result I was contacted by two different small publishers asking if I’d review their CDs as well. I said sure, send ’em up and I’ll have my kids pass judgement, and lo, they did. Here’s…
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JSTOR – PDF Incompatibility with Mac Preview
JSTOR reports “We are glad to report that we have located and fixed a problem that caused an incompatibility between JSTOR PDF files and older versions of Mac Preview. This problem caused only part of the article to be viewable in Preview. The fix released today means that JSTOR PDF files should now be viewable…
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Campus Community Advisory!
Bet most of you don’t have this much fun on YOUR campus! This arrived via email a short time ago: Moose tranquilized and safely removed from campus Alberta Fish and Wildlife Officers successfully tranquilized and removed a young moose from campus this morning. The moose wandered onto campus at about 8:20 a.m. and broke through…