Category: Web/Tech
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Get paid $100/hour to search Google
Wow, that really sounds like spam, doesn’t it! Hope I don’t end up on blacklists for anyone receiving my posts via email… Anyhoo, I don’t know how to land such a choice gig, but Jon Udell has an interesting post about what goes on in his mind as he works through internet searches that are…
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Citation Managers Galore
We have the web-based RefWorks here at the U of C, and are in the middle of a big marketing campaign for it. It’s pretty slick, but if you don’t have it at your school (or, gasp! don’t go to school), what are you to do? Lorcan Dempsy points to a long list of suggestions…
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Screencasting Q&A
OK, there will only be one more post referencing my SirsiDynix Institute presentation on Screencasting; I’ll let you know when the actual session recording is available to both watch and hear. Right now the mp3 is available; of course you’ll be missing the demos I showed. The real purpose of this post is to wrap-up…
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But what if I just bought the old version?
I’m slowly putting together the answers to all the questions that were asked during my SirsiDynix Institute session on Screencasting last week. One person asked if I was sure that version 4 of Camtasia was out, as she had just bought version 3.x the previous week. I am sure, and told her that if she’d…
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SirsiDynix Screencasting Links
These are the links that I referenced during my Introduction to Screencasting seminar for the SirsiDynix Institute. The archived seminar will soon be available online, and when it is I’ll replace this sentence with a link to it. The examples that I hope to show include: Book Title Search from Central Michigan University’s Off Campus…
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Dotto on Libraries
Here in Canada we have a TV tech show for the layman called DottoTech, and a couple of months ago Steve Dotto ran a brief segment about using your local Public Library to access licensed databases. That clip (about 3 minutes) is now available online. I hope you won’t learn anything as a librarian from…
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Good to know about Feed2JS and Spam
Hot on the heels of the talk Meredith Farkas and I gave at Internet Librarian on using Feed2JS (and some other tools) comes this post from RSS4Lib warning about the misappropriation of a locally installed version of Feed2JS. Basically, if you do choose to install the software on your own server, Ken points out that…
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Wavago now Raketu
A year ago I mentioned Wavago as an IM aggregator, along the lines of Adium or Trillian. I tried it, but didn’t like the interface so kept Trillian. I just got an email that suggests Wavago has been purchased by a product called Raketu, that will automatically import your Wavago clients, but that also supports…
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New Blog – LibCasting
Just left a session presented by Greg Notess called Training Tutorial Tour and Tips in which we critiqued 4 different online tutorials, including a couple of screencasts, and Greg took the opportunity to unveil to the world his new blog, LibCasting: Screencasting and libraries. He’s only been posting through the month of October so there’s…