Category: Weblogs
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Technorati Tags for OffCamp Conference
I know there will be at least a few other bloggers at OffCamp in Savannah next week – anybody up for settling on a common Technorati tag? I propose OCLSC06. Technorati Tags: OCLSC06
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Another RSS to E-mail service
Amit blogs that there’s a new kid on the block when it comes to RSS to Email services, and it’s likely to prove to be a big kid ’cause it’s a service from Feedburner! I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but I guess you can add it to the rest of the…
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Intuitive Revelations: The Ubiquitous Reference Model
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How’s that for an ear-catching title? Brian Mathews at Georgia Tech is working on a really interesting project. OK, so we know some libraries have created pages in places where patrons hang out, like MySpace. I use a Pubsub feed to look for anyone who’s blogged about the University of Calgary, and on rare occasions…
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Librarycasting SE
Chad at Library Voice points to Librarycasting SE (the SE is for Sciences and Engineering). This is a wonderful collection (blogged) of screencasts and podcasts put together by Pete Kirlew at Virginia Commonwealth University. A sampling of some of the recent posts include: Tutorials for Engineering Village, PubMed Video Tutorials, Finding Online Tutorials at VCU…
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CLA Services for Distance Learning Interest Group
After a hiatus of several years, the Canadian Library Association Services for Distance Learning Interest Group is back. Laurie Prange at Yukon College is the new convener, and she has a section of her blog dedicated to this group. First order of business is to complete a survey on the top 10 services necessary in…
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Creating RSS feeds where none exist
Is there something magic about the number 20? Why don’t individual wiki pages offer RSS feeds? These are two of the questions I’ve been forced to ponder this week. Here’s my story. A month ago I blogged about the launch of the COPPUL Animated Tutorial Sharing (ANTS) Project. We’re using a wiki (MediaWiki) to track…
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Useful Tools – blog software comparison and file sharing
Lifehacker points to these two useful posts today. The first is a blog software comparison chart from the Online Journalism Review. If you’re thinking about starting a blog as your New Year’s resolution, this chart may be helpful in deciding which software to use. One thing it doesn’t include is the cost though, so you’ll…
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Podcasting with The Distant Librarian (sorta)
This is a little experiment. I just found a service called Talkr that will take any RSS feed and turn the text into an mp3 file, read by a nice robot female voice. It’s surprisingly good! Not only can you give them an RSS feed to turn into mp3s, but I can, and have, given…
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Open Access Librarian blog
One of my colleagues here at the U of Calgary is a contributor to this new group-blog: OA Librarian is a new, cooperatively produced weblog, which combines a pathfinder function with news and commentary on open access and librarianship. Please visit us here: http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/ Under OA Resources on the right-hand side of the page, you’ll…
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Why I Blog
This question has been addressed by many people already, and I really don’t have anything new to add to the topic, but since an article I wrote over a year ago has finally hit hard copy I thought I’d share it with you anyway. I was pleased, when looking at it again a year later,…