Category: Weblogs
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ChatGPTLibrarian is still finding his (its?) voice
One of my alerts just tripped over a new blog called ChatGPTLibrarian. The site was launched in March 2023 by librarian Victor Santiago, and I think he's still trying to decide if he's going to write as him, or as an AI-assisted author. The header of each page reads, Welcome to ChatGPTLibrarian, a blog dedicated…
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Typepad FINALLY has a responsive design template!
One of the few hassles of using a hosted service for this blog is that, especially unless I want to pay for the top-tier of services, most of which I don't need, I'm mostly at the whim of Typepad for styles and overall themes. A couple of years ago I asked about a mobile-friendly theme,…
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New (DE) Kid on the Block
When I first started this blog (7 years ago!) it was in part to fill a perceived gap in the blogosphere on the topic of library service to distance students. Since then I've broadened the scope of The Distant Librarian to library tech in general, and there have been a fair number of other blogs…
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Distant Librarian’s top 10 posts from 2009
I was poking around Google Analytics for work yesterday and thought it would also be fun to peek at the top ten posts for my blog for 2009. Here they are, without comment: Crappy Experience at the Apple Store A little more info on the Harvard linking BS Jing Pro and Jing Free Is 2009…
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Feed2JS moving to Google Code
Alan Levine posts that he’s moving the source code for the most excellent Feed2JS tool to Google Code. If you haven’t played with it before, Feed2JS was one of the first and best tools to take RSS feeds and provide you with javascript that allows you to embed those feeds within a standard web page. …
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New Mobile Libraries blog
Gerry McKiernan has started another blog, this one called Mobile Libraries. "Mobile Libraries Is Devoted To Documenting Any and All Topics Relating To Services Provided By Libraries To Patrons Within Mobile Environments. Library Mobile Services Are Defined As Any And All Library Services That Are Provided Via Mobile Technologies." Subscribed.
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New media into old
I just finished listening to episode 64 of CBC’s Spark, and it began with a couple of really interesting interviews with people who are turning new media into old (ie. newspapers or magazines). Ben Terret and his friend Russell collected their favourite blog posts from 2008 and arranged to have them printed on actual newsprint…