Category: Web/Tech
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New website – Google Librarian
Eugene left a comment on one of my posts that he and a friend have started a new website called Google Librarian. It’s nice and clean, and there are a few good tip sheets up already – looks like he wants to create a community.
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A Risky Gamble with Google
Siva Vaidhyanathan, friend to librarians, has a lengthy piece in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education called A Risky Gamble with Google (the link goes to his blog where the full text of the article is reproduced). The piece is mostly a discussion about the copyright implications of the Google Book Search project (this post describes…
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Slides Synched to Sound
Someday you or I might have an audio recording made during a live talk (with ppt or Keynote) that we’d then want to post for our distance students. Doug’s soliciting solutions and if there’s a good way to do it, it’ll probably show up in the comments section: Slides Synched to Sound.
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Opinions on Google Book Search
Early last week I read a pretty interesting piece by George Dyson called Turing’s Cathedral; it’s a summary of a talk he gave during a visit to Google HQ last month. Most of the article went over my head, but the quote he used to close the piece really struck a chord: "When our machines…
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Wavago for IM
Wavago has been mentioned on a few other blogs, but I finally got a chance to try it this AM. The interface was a little confusing to me at first, but hey, it was the first time I looked at it so I suspect I’ll get used to it. I wanted to try it as…
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Diggdot.us – digg / slashdot / del.icio.us popular
For those of you trying to stay ahead of the curve: Diggdot.us. Why diggdot.us? Digg, slashdot, and del.icio.us/popular – this is a constant browsing cycle for us. So why not combine them into a unified format without all the extra chrome? We can eliminate dupes and add some extra niceities.
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Roy Tennant and Cathy Gordon (Google Scholar) are coming to my house
Well ok, not my house, but my campus. The Alberta Library (TAL), our Provincial consortium, is sponsoring a two-day symposium on federated searching. Here’s a 4-page PDF flyer outlining the symposium. You’re definately invited, but I’m afraid you’re not going to feel very welcome as 1) it’s the beginning of February in Calgary, and 2)…
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Google Print is Renamed Google Book Search
Via SearchEngine Watch: Google Print is Renamed Google Book Search.
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Inserting Flash into PPT
This morning I was helping a colleague learn Macromedia Breeze (convert PPT to Flash), and he wondered about the ability to include a brief (30 seconds) screencast within the presentation. Breeze can handle animation, so I thought it could probably handle a movie too. And it can. But it’s not very easy 🙁 He used…
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses RSS Feed
OK idea for ProQuest to offer an RSS feed for dissertations and theses in seven subject areas, but my campus runs everyone (even on-campus users) through EZProxy before accessing this database, so even on campus when I click a link in the resulting feed I can’t get to the actual content. I need a way…