Category: Web/Tech
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Self-destructing email
BigString Originally uploaded by ppival Saw this post at Ars Technica describing a service called BigString that allows one to send self-destructing email. They do it by sending an image of whatever text you type, and then depending on the parameters you set, make that image (still actually hosted at BigString) expire after…
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Technology Readiness
Stephen Bell at ACRLog posts about data from a survey of technology readiness that may help explain why you feel overwhelmed by all this new stuff there is to play with, but also why your more experienced colleagues are even less likely to want to play with it. Interesting stuff.
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Jing – Techsmith’s first screen capture and screencasting product for the Mac
Interesting that I’m more excited about Jing being Techsmith’s first foray into OSX than I am about the product itself, but there you go! It’s available for Windows too, but only XP and Vista, not 2K, which is what I run at the office, so I haven’t played with it on the Windows side. Techsmith…
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Librarian 2.0 – Interviews on the future of libraries
A couple of months ago Will Sherman, writing for DegreeTutor.com, interviewed me as part of a series on the Future of Libraries. Will came to the attention of the library world earlier this year with his good piece, 33 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important. The series of interviews with Librarians and…
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POD Friday!
Couple of really interesting developments in the print-on-demand world today: Amazon has partnered with four (soon to be more?) libraries to digitize public domain books and then sell them in paper to consumers.See coverage from: The Centered Librarian ACRLog Chronicle of Higher Education Original Press Release The New York Public Library appears to be the…
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Google Book Search vs Live Search Books
Stephen Leary at The Reflective Librarian has an interesting post in which he compares the shifting number of results he gets over time with Google Book Search. Live Search Books (MSN) provides stable results, but neither service actually allows you to see the results after a certain point. I tried to leave him this comment,…
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Buy O’Reilly Books by the Chapter
Yesterday Tim O’Reilly posted about a new option for O’Reilly books – buy them by the chapter for $3.99 each! Keeping in mind that many of O’Reilly’s offerings are techie references, this might just work well for them. Personally, $3.99 is a little steep for me to consider it, but personally, I don’t buy songs…
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Conference: m-libraries Information on the move..
This is way beyond what we’re currently playing with at the U of C, but there’s a conference coming up in November in the UK that “aims to explore and share work carried out in libraries around the world to deliver services and resources to users ‘on the move,’ via a growing plethora of mobile…
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The Ultimate RSS Toolbox – 120+ RSS Resources
Mashable has just posted The Ultimate RSS Toolbox – 120+ RSS Resources which provides briefly annotated links to tools in the following categories: RSS Readers for Windows, Mac, Linux, Web, Cross-platform, and Mobile, RSS to email converters, Feed validators, Browser plugins, RSS Managers, Feed mixers, Ping tools, Feed Directories, Tips and Hacks, and Miscellaneous. Impressive! …