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Techsmith is seeking volunteers to “participate in usability tests of Screencast.com. The tests are one-on-one sessions that would take an hour of your time. You can participate in them from your own home or office, with a phone line, PC computer, and broadband internet connection.”  They’re throwing in a $25 Amazon.com gift card for participating…

Apparently November 10-14, 2008 is National Distance Learning Week. “Sponsored by the United States Distance Learning Association, National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) held on November 10-14, 2008, seeks to promote and celebrate the tremendous growth and accomplishments occurring today in distance learning programs offered by schools, businesses, and governmental departments.”

A couple of weeks ago D’Arcy Norman posted about Michael Welsch’s latest video, An anthropological introduction to YouTube, recorded during a presentation to the Library of Congress on June 23rd, 2008. It’s been on my to-do list since then, but I only today got around to watching it on my wife’s iPod during the drive…

Just finished browsing through the latest issues of Library Technology Reports which someone at ALA kindly sent to me. Written by Ellyssa Kroski (iLibrarian and InfoTangle), On the Move with the Mobile Web: Libraries and Mobile Technologies does a good job of providing background on the state of mobile (aka cellphones for the most part)…

Lifehacker reports on a Firefox extension called RIP which works like my fav, Aardvark, only permanently. Most excellent for printing, especially.

As part of his Interviews with Innovators series, Jon Udell talks with Lee LeFever of Common Craft. Common Craft is the husband and wife company behind such internet favorites as RSS in Plain English, Twitter in Plain English, and of course the incredibly useful Zombies in Plain English. During the interview Lee discusses how they…

Betsy Weber has just posted a 5-minute interview with Troy Stein, Camtasia Studio product manager in which he provides some details on how the Mac version of Camtasia Studio is coming along. Some relevant details: it’s being written completely for the Mac – not just porting the Windows version over. Private beta (pick me please!)…

On 25 July the Australian Newspapers Beta service was launched to the public. The Beta service contains 70,000 newspaper pages from 1803 onwards and additional pages are being added each week. The Library welcomes feedback on the service, and will continue development of the Beta service over the next few months. 1 .2 million pages…

Kate WittenbergDirector, Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC)Columbia University Topic: The Gutenberg-e Project: Opportunities and Challenges in Publishing Born-Digital MonographsDate: August 1, 2008Time: 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT).International participants: You may wish to visit this external time-conversion website to calculate the event’s start time in your time zone.Duration:…

Peter Brantley has an interesting blog post in which he laments the lack of ebook or library-related apps for the iPhone, citing this past weekend’s 3G launch as a missed opportunity. Is anyone working on such an application? If it’s for a small audience (patrons of one community or institution) will Apple even allow it…