Category: Miscellaneous
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Provide feedback on the development of SnagIt and Camtasia Studio for the Mac
Techsmith is currently running a couple of brief surveys to find out what folks think are the most important features for their under-development-versions of SnagIt and Camtasia Studio for the Mac. Why not take a couple of minutes to let them know what you think: Camtasia Studio for the Mac survey (Camtasia is for screen…
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Ask.com lays off 40 – to refocus on librarians
I couldn’t resist the headline when I saw that as part of the layoffs they were going to refocus on “providing answers to its core audience of women searching on… reference topics”. 😉 Stephen Abram has a good number of links on this shakeup. Technorati Tags: Ask.com, restructuring
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Wonderful Skullcandy Warranty
I have no idea how we can co-opt this in library land, but I wanted to share with you the absolutely wonderful-sounding warranty offered by the manufacturer of my newest pair of earphones, Skullcandy: Skullcandy is proud to provide he best product warranty in the industry. If this product should fail in your lifetime, we…
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Distant/Remote Librarian Employment?
Dear Hive Mind, I just got an interesting question which I was unable to answer, and wondered if any of you had any suggestions. The paraphrased question is, "I have an MLIS, but reside several hours away from the closest university. I remember hearing about these remote librarian employment opportunities while in Library School. I…
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As of yet, no copyright bill has been introduced…
As mentioned last week, Industry Minister Jim Prentice spoke at the U of C on Friday, February 8, 2008. He didn’t end up speaking about copyright, though the audience sure did. His topic was on policy making around greenhouse gas reductions, but 5 of the 8 questions asked were about copyright law. He seemed to…
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Amazon.com to Acquire Audible.com
Another acquisition to end the month: Amazon.com to Acquire Audible.com
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Ovid responds to customer desires on tab naming
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how to use EZProxy to change the default wording on the tabs in the new OvidSP interface. Seems we weren’t alone in desiring a better name for the Ovid Syntax tab, and Ovid reports that on Friday, Feb 1 they’re going to automagically switch the name of…
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OEDb’s Online College Rankings 2008
No mention of the importance of libraries here, but the Online Education Database has just released OEDb’s Online College Rankings 2008. For each college, we gathered data for eight different metrics — acceptance rate, financial aid, graduation rate, peer Web citations, retention rate, scholarly citations, student-faculty ratio, and years accredited. Pleased to see the institution…
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Alchemist author increases sales by pirating his own book
Neat stuff! “Paulo Coelho, the best-selling author of “The Alchemist”, is using BitTorrent and other filesharing networks as a way to promote his books. His publishers weren’t too keen on giving away free copies of his books, so he’s taken matters into his own hands. He’s convinced — and rightly so — that letting people…
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ProQuest Acquires RefWorks
There sure seem to be a log of acquisitions lately! Official PDF version, or: BETHESDA, MD, USA (January 18, 2008) – RefWorks, LLC, the leading provider of a web-based research management, writing, and collaboration tool, has announced that it has been acquired by ProQuest, a Cambridge Information Group company. With over 900 institutions worldwide and…