Category: Social Networks
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Introducing the Top Ten Most Influential Bloggers | E-Learning Council
via www.elearningcouncil.com I actually don't follow any of these folks, but if you're looking to pick up some new feeds, this might be a good place to start! (none of them appear to be librarians) Oh, and I'm trying to close browser tabs by the end of the year, so a few more posts to…
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No more blog posts in Facebook?
I noticed this message at the top of my Facebook page the other day: You currently automatically import content from your website or blog into your Facebook notes. Starting November 22nd, this feature will no longer be available, although you'll still be able to write individual notes. The best way to share content from your…
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Movember – is it a Commonwealth thing?
At the end of October this year a friend of mine posted that his doctor had found a tumor during a checkup of his manly parts. This timing was such that I decided I'd get involved in the Movember movement this year. Over the past few days I noticed something really odd. Canada is leading…
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Google Kills Its Other Plus, and How to Bring It Back
From the Wired article you really should read: (Last) Wednesday, Google retired a longer-standing “plus”: the + operator, a standard bit of syntax used to force words and phrases to appear in search results. The operator was part of Google since its launch in 1997 and built into every search engine since. Of course I…
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Link dump – iOS5, online storage, & screencasting
Here's a list of stuff I've bookmarked over the past week or so. From TeleRead, sad news that iOS5 kills the Stanza ebook reader. Before I really started to buy from Kobo, Stanza was my e-reader of choice. It still offers the most intuitive usability features, IMHO, but I guess Amazon decided not to show…
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RSS Feed Aggregator – ChimpFeedr
Gasp – two posts in one day! Lifehacker links to a nice simple utility called ChimpFeedr (from the makers of MailChimp). Give it as many RSS feeds as you like and it will spit out a single feed combining them all. That's all it does, but it does it well. (See also FeedSnitch and Feed…
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My highlights from the exhibits floor at ALA11
I'm here in New Orleans for another night, finishing up a visit to ALA. I was here primarily to participate on the Summon Advisory Board, but also spent today in the exhibits hall. If you're reading this in time to take advantage, here are a couple booths you should hit while here, depending of course…
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Survey Finds E-Book Piracy Occurs Among a Surprising Demographic
Yeah, me! A post on Stephen's blog points to ReadWriteWeb's summary of the results of a 2011 survey showing why people in the UK pirate ebooks. Know what? I pirated two ebooks yesterday. My wife purchased two titles from the B&N Nook store, and after we collectively spent nearly two hours attempting to get them…
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The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2010
Abstract: Since 2004, the annual ECAR study of undergraduate students and information technology has sought to shed light on how information technology affects the college experience. We ask students about the technology they own and how they use it in and out of their academic world. We gather information about how skilled students believe they…
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U of Calgary Library Video Game Collection rocks Twitter!
Granted, I don't monitor Twitter for mention of many other libraries, but a couple of news stories about the video game collection that will be opening within the Taylor Family Digital Library here at the University of Calgary next year have resulted in more Twitter-love for the UofC than I've ever seen before. You can…